Course Overview: Advanced Fire Fighting Training Course
Advanced Fire Fighting course provides participants with the skills and knowledge to effectively respond as a key member of the on-board command fire fighting team and manage shipboard fire prevention, coordinate tactical fire fighting and use and maintain fire fighting and fire detection equipment carried on merchant vessels.
Certificate Validity
3 Years
Topics Covered
- Introduction, safety and principles
- Areas of fire hazard
- Fire precautions
- Dry distillation
- Chemical reactions
- Boiler uptake fires and exhaust fires in prime movers and auxiliary exhausts
- Fires in water-tube boilers
- Tactics and procedure of fire control while ship is at sea
- Tactics and procedure of fire control while ship is in port
- Tactics and procedure of fire control while ship is carrying dangerous goods
- Tactics and procedure of fire control for oil, chemical and gas tankers
- Use of water for fire extinguishing, the effect on stability, precautions and corrective procedures
- Communication and co-ordination during fire-fighting
- Rescue and life support equipment
- Salvage equipment
- Communication equipment
- Requirements for statutory and classification surveys
- Ventilation control including smoke extractor
- Control of fuel and electrical systems
- Fire precautions and hazards associated with the storage and handling of materials (paints etc.)
- Management and control of injured persons
- Procedures for co-ordination with shore-based fire fighters
- Preparation of contingency plans
- Composition and allocation of personnel to fire parties
- Training of seafarers in fire-fighting
- Fire control plans
- Organization of fire and abandon ship drills
- Strategies and tactics for control of fires various parts of the ship
- Fire alarms
- Fire detection equipment
- Fixed fire-extinguishing equipment
- Fire main, hydrants, hoses and nozzles and pumps
- Portable and mobile fire extinguishing equipment including appliances
- Firefighters outfits and other personal protective equipment
- Fire investigation and reporting
- Trainees experience of fires on ships
- Documented reports of fires on ships lessons learned