Short Course Certificate in Fire Safety

This short course certificate covers fire safety knowledge required by employees or supervisors in vocational industries. It also provides professional development opportunities to those already employed as supervisors to meet their legislative obligations as “persons in charge of a place of work”.

Graduates will able to:

- understand basic principles of the chemistry and physics of fire;
- identify fire classes and suppression techniques;
- suppress fires with hand extinguishers and fixed-hose reels;
- manage and carry out workplace evacuation requirements; and
- carry out fire and emergency warden duties.

 Level: 3 / Credits: 5

Campus: Mokoia, Rotorua

Length: 1 week part time

Study options: Part time

Entry Requirements: Admission and entry requirements for this qualification are in accordance with Waiariki’s Academic Regulations / view full entry requirements

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