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Training
- OSHA Training Institute
Course Catalog Search. OSHA. Provides a searchable database of course listings, with start and end dates.
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Construction Industry Safety and Health Outreach Program. OSHA, (1996, May). Contains three sections pertaining to fire safety:
- Fire
Protection and Prevention. Includes a list of
applicable definitions, and describes standards pertaining to fire
protection, fire fighting, fire prevention, flammable and combustible
liquids, liquefied petroleum gas, and temporary heating devices.
- Classification
of Portable Fire Extinguishers. Describes
qualifications of Class A, A/B, B/C, and A/B/C fire extinguishers.
- Common
Fire Extinguishing Agents. Describes the advantages
and disadvantages of six common fire extinguishing agents: water, carbon
dioxide, dry chemical, multipurpose dry chemical, halon 1301, and halon
1211.
- Small
Business Handbook. OSHA Publication 2209-02R, (2005). Also available
as a 260 KB PDF, 56 pages.
- Means of Egress and Fire Protection. OSHA, 3 MB
ZIP*. Assists trainers
conducting OSHA 10-hour General Industry outreach training for workers.
Since workers are the target audience, the material emphasizes hazard
identification, avoidance, and control - not standards. No attempt has been
made to treat the topic exhaustively.
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Fire Safety. National Ag Safety Database (NASD). Provides a listing of several fire safety videos available from NASD.
Other Resources
- Working Outdoors in Warm Climates. OSHA
Fact Sheet, (2005, September), 26 KB
PDF*, 2 pages.
- National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). United States
Fire Administration (USFA), (2008, June 5). Includes links to reports,
software for reporting fires, fire statistics and training materials.
- Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL).
National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), (2008, August 22).
Studies building materials; computer-integrated construction practices;
fire science and fire safety engineering; and structural, mechanical, and
environmental engineering. Products of the laboratory's research include
measurements and test methods, performance criteria, and technical data
that supports innovations by industry and are incorporated into building
and fire standards and codes.
- Fire on the Web. Provides
links to fire related software, experimental fire data and mpeg/quick time
movies of fire tests that can be downloaded and/or viewed with a web browser.
*These files are provided for downloading.
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