HSSE Fire Performance Improvement Review

Objectives

This workshop aims to provide participants with an understanding of ways to minimize the risk of fire spread within a building by the concept of fire enclosure, fire severity assessment and performance-based design building structures and equipment.

Outline

Module 1. Enclosure Fire Development

• Introduction and Design Consideration

 •  Performance based design

 •  Standards fire safety perspective

 •  Prescriptive requirement of fire resistance and compartmentation

• Fire Development

•  Localized, pre- and post-flashover

 •  Standard, typical, and experimental fire curves

 •  Analytical tools – zone models and field models

 •  Parametric fire curve

• External Fire Spread

 •  External wall construction

 •  Unprotected area

 •  Example

• Travelling Fire

 •  Typical fire scenarios

 •  Travelling fire methodology]

Module 2. Fire Severity Assessment and Structural Performance in Fire

• Thermal Transfer Assessment

• 1-D / 2-D heat transfer analysis

• Convective and radiative heat consideration

• Simplified heat transfer in steel structures

• Case study

• Performance-based Fire Severity Assessment

 • Equivalent Time of Fire Exposure (EN1991: Part 1.2)

 • Parametric fire & effect on structural elements

 • Estimating fire resistance requirement using Parametric fire curve

 • Risk Consideration • Eurocode and UK perspective

• Case study

• Thermal and Structural Response– Steel & Composite structures

• EN 1993: Part 1.2, EN 1995: Part 1.2

• Strength Retention factor, design temperature, limiting temperature

• Load ratio approach

• Case study

• Thermal and Structural Response– Concrete structures

• EN 1992: Part 1.2

• Strength retention, effect of concrete cover

• Load ratio approach

• Case study

Module 3. Fire Risk Assessment in Practice: Fire Risks and Control for improvements.

• Identify a range of workplace fire hazards and describe appropriate control measures.
• Describe the characteristics of fire classes and the risks posed by different types of fire.
• Identify the hazards that occur during or after a fire.
• Describe the principles of heat transfer and fire spread in a building.
• Identify common hazards that require special consideration and their controls, including:
• Flammable substances
• Electricity and gas

Machinery

Who Should Attend ?

Fire Safety Managers, Facilities Managers, Risk Managers, Surveyors, Consultants and Health and Safety practitioners and those looking for a professional, nationally recognized, fire safety management qualification. Those with very little or a good working knowledge of fire safety will benefit from this training