Fire Awareness & Extinguisher Training
Equips your team to recognise fire risks, raise the alarm correctly, and safely use portable fire extinguishers on small contained fires. Includes hands-on practical extinguisher use. Site-focused and practical.
Course overview
Fire Awareness & Extinguisher Training gives your people the knowledge and confidence to respond safely in the first moments of a fire — when quick, correct action makes the biggest difference.
The session covers how fire starts and spreads, the common fire risks in your workplace, and the right response when a fire is discovered: raising the alarm, alerting others, and evacuating safely. Participants then learn how to select and operate the correct portable fire extinguisher for different fire types, and — importantly — how to judge when a fire is small enough to tackle and when to leave it and get out.
The training includes a hands-on practical component using live or simulated extinguisher activation, so participants experience operating an extinguisher rather than just being shown. Delivered on-site and tailored to your workplace, its fire risks and its emergency procedures, the training aligns with AS 3745 (Planning for emergencies in facilities) and supports your wider WHS and emergency planning obligations.
Suitable for staff across offices, healthcare facilities, educational campuses, retail premises, accommodation facilities, warehouses and industrial workplaces — and a practical complement to warden and emergency response training.
Additional information
This course has no formal entry requirements and is open to workplace participants.
Participants should:
• be physically able to take part in practical activities, such as evacuation walk-throughs and handling fire extinguishers;
• wear enclosed, closed-toe footwear suitable for practical activities and moving safely (including stairs) — no open-toed shoes, sandals or heels;
• have sufficient English language, literacy and numeracy skills to follow instructions, take part in activities and understand emergency procedures.
For role-based courses (such as Chief Warden or Warden/ECO training), participants are normally nominated to the relevant role within their organisation's Emergency Control Organisation.
Attendance and completion: Participants must sign on via the QR code at the start of each training session so attendance can be captured. Anyone leaving a session before it is complete will be deemed not to have completed the course and excluded from final attendance records.
No formal assessment is required for this course. An informal written assessment is given at the end of the session to confirm understanding of the key content.
On-site sessions are practical, site-specific, and tailored to your facility's emergency procedures and evacuation diagrams.
Training facility sessions accommodate groups of up to 20 participants. Group sizes and session durations are listed in the course details above.
FERST is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment for all participants. If you have any questions, feedback, or wish to raise a concern, contact us at hello@ferst.training or call 1300 333 778.
