Every day in France, numerous fires break out. While the consequences are usually minor, they can be more serious in the event of a fire at industrial facilities that store flammable materials . Training in fire safety and industrial fire suppression is therefore essential.
What fire risks might your business face?
Fire prevention is part of overall risk prevention. A fire can cause a great deal of damage.
Beyond property damage (loss of inventory, machine breakdowns, etc.), your business may face a loss of production. This can have far more significant consequences for your bottom line. Seventy percent of insurance claims result in business closures, leaving employees unemployed.
Fires can have various causes:
- Human errors resulting from negligence or malice
- Natural disasters caused by weather conditions such as storms, floods, or heat waves
- Energy-related issues such as chemical reactions resulting from the storage of chemically incompatible materials, electrical or thermal overloads, or issues caused by electrostatic phenomena
For a fire to start, all that is needed is for a combustible material, an oxidizer, and a source of energy to come into contact.
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How can I get training in industrial fires?
To effectively control an industrial fire, it is essential to act quickly and facilitate the response of emergency services. To do so, three steps must be followed.
The first involves sounding the alarm and evacuating the staff.
The second step requires a rapid and effective response from trained personnel to extinguish or contain the fire while waiting for emergency services to arrive. This second step is essential to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby buildings or to prevent hazardous materials from burning.
The third step is to call for emergency assistance. These are the only people trained to completely extinguish a fire and to manage the fire-out process and the resulting damage.
Training staff on fire safety and industrial fires is therefore important. This significantly reduces the damage caused by a fire, such as air and water pollution from hazardous materials.
That is why Gesip offers a wide range of training courses on industrial fires to meet your needs.
Our training programs are conducted in a hands-on environment at our technical facilities located within industrial complexes. We offer exercises in which we place our trainees in real-life scenarios involving large-scale fires and full-scale facilities.
Gesip also offers you the option to create a customized training program. You can also take advantage of ouraudit and consulting services to assess your fire protection systems.
