Course description
A course designed to improve your professional skills and broaden your job opportunities.
Why enrol on this course?
Who can take this course?
Employed, self-employed or unemployed people who want to improve their skills.
Free course
Subsidised training, at no cost to the student.
Online course
Study from home with a flexible format.
Certified course
When you finish you will be able to certify the training you have completed.
Course content
1. INTRODUCTION TO FOREST FIRES
1.1 Fire behaviour
1.2 Types and parts of a fire
1.3 Types of heat transfer
1.4 Forest fuels
1.5 Fire geometry
1.6 Influence of the weather
1.7 Ecological effects of fire
1.8 Causes of forest fires
1.9 Legislation on forest fires
2. FIRE INVESTIGATION PROCEDURE: PHYSICAL AND TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE
2.1 Current outlook of cause investigation
2.2 The cause investigation process
2.3 Data collection
2.4 The physical evidence method
2.5 Causes, indications and evidence
2.6 List of traces
2.7 Identifying the point of origin of the fire
2.8 Activity indicator table
2.9 Testimonial evidence
3. PREPARING REPORTS, SKETCHES AND RECORDS
3.1 Processing investigation information
3.2 Technical investigation record
3.3 Technical investigation report
3.4 Case studies of fire investigations
4. DETERMINING RISK SITUATIONS
4.1 Determining risk situations
4.2 Forest fire causality maps
4.3 Assessing risk situations
4.4 Classifying risk situations
4.5 Risks in firefighting work
4.6 Personal safety and protection in fires
1.1 Fire behaviour
1.2 Types and parts of a fire
1.3 Types of heat transfer
1.4 Forest fuels
1.5 Fire geometry
1.6 Influence of the weather
1.7 Ecological effects of fire
1.8 Causes of forest fires
1.9 Legislation on forest fires
2. FIRE INVESTIGATION PROCEDURE: PHYSICAL AND TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE
2.1 Current outlook of cause investigation
2.2 The cause investigation process
2.3 Data collection
2.4 The physical evidence method
2.5 Causes, indications and evidence
2.6 List of traces
2.7 Identifying the point of origin of the fire
2.8 Activity indicator table
2.9 Testimonial evidence
3. PREPARING REPORTS, SKETCHES AND RECORDS
3.1 Processing investigation information
3.2 Technical investigation record
3.3 Technical investigation report
3.4 Case studies of fire investigations
4. DETERMINING RISK SITUATIONS
4.1 Determining risk situations
4.2 Forest fire causality maps
4.3 Assessing risk situations
4.4 Classifying risk situations
4.5 Risks in firefighting work
4.6 Personal safety and protection in fires