Professional Development

This short course aims to expose participants to how to minimize the fire risk and maintain a state of readiness to respond to emergencies involving firefight and extinguishing fires in the Maritime sector, schools, industries, open spaces, and buildings. This short course will particularly focus on Understanding the risk of fire on board and how to minimize those risks, Learning how to fight and extinguish fires as well as search for and recover casualties, and Covering how to wear firefighting equipment including personal breathing apparatus and safe use of fire extinguishers.