Understand the fire triangle, fire tetrahedron, fire classes, hot work hazards, and fire safety precautions for children.
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Every workplace I have ever inspected already contained all three sides of the fire triangle. Heat, fuel and oxygen were all present, all the time. That is normal, and it is the point most fire…
Fire safety for children rests on one assumption most parents have never been told: your sleeping child will probably not wake up when the smoke alarm sounds. In a study of 188 children aged five to…
Hot work is any activity that introduces an ignition source into a workplace — welding, flame cutting, brazing, soldering, grinding, thawing pipes with a torch, or running a bitumen boiler. The…
The fire tetrahedron is the four-sided model of combustion: fuel, heat, an oxidising agent, and an uninhibited chemical chain reaction . Remove any one face and flaming combustion stops. It replaced…
