H2K organizes a 5-day JOIFF accredited Advanced Industrial Firefighting-training
The Advanced Industrial Firefighting training will take place at the Spinel Training Centre in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. This fire training centre in the vicinity of Rotterdam, offers a wide variety of training objects and all common industrial incident scenarios can be trained under realistic conditions.
The training Advanced Industrial Firefighting is accredited by the not-for-profit JOIFF organisation.
(www.JOIFF.com)
The program has been designed for those who have to deal with or have responsibility for emergency response in industrial settings and organisations, such as refineries, chemical plants, pharmaceuts, agrochemicals, food industries, etc.
The 5-day course is a blend of theory, workshops, demonstrations and practical firefighting (ratio theory-practice is 40/60). The program focuses on the basic principles of emergency response in industrial incidents, and to provide a vision on different approaches. H2K instructors will provide the training course.
The training program addresses the following topics:
- Basic principles on industrial firefighting and industrial emergency response
- Problems concerning chemical and petrochemical terminals and hydrocarbon products
- A vision on emergency response and priority setting during incidents
- Credible scenarios and the different response strategies
- Fixed firefighting systems: available systems, limitations and their effective uses
- Extinguishing agents and their limitations
- Cooperation with municipal fire brigades
- New developments and insights on foam systems, firefighting foams and polar solvents
- Actual lessons learned and common dilemmas in incident response
- Practical demos and workshops of firefighting tactics and techniques
- Practical training (hose handling, use of foam/water monitors, cooling, heat flux, etc.)
Practical Information:
The 5-day course will take place from at Spinel Safety Centre in Dordrecht, near Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
The Advanced Industrial Firefighting-training is a 5-day event commencing Monday 8:00 (CET).
On Friday the program ends at 15:30.
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