Advanced Fire Fighting Strategies in Refineries

Introduction

Fire Fighting in the Oil Industry" training refers to specialized instruction designed for workers in the oil and gas sector, focusing on the unique fire hazards present in such environments, proper use of specialized firefighting equipment like foam systems, and emergency response procedures to effectively combat hydrocarbon fires in an oil rig, refinery, or pipeline setting.

Objectives

This advance firefighting training will transform your participants to formidable onsite fire fighters, fire team leaders and members. they will understand and predict fire behavior, fight and extinguish complicated fires both offshore and onshore. Upon completion of the advance firefighting course, trainee will be competent to:

• Work as onsite incident commander during fire incident.
• Carry out quantitative and qualitative fire risk assessment
• Organize fire teams
• Fight fires
• Train fire parties and control fire-fighting operations

Training Methodology

Different learning techniques will be used during the training course, starting from PowerPoint presentations, interactive practical exercises, workshops, focused group discussions, related videos, and business case studies.

Who Should Attend?

Oil rig workers, Refinery personnel, Pipeline maintenance crews, and Safety officers in oil and gas companies.

Course Outline

Fire Behavior

• Combustion
• Heat
• Determining Flashover Time
• Flashover
• Back draft

The Mechanisms of Fire Extinguishment

• Water Flow and Form
• Fog: Theory and Practice
• Solid and Straight Streams
• Firefighting Foams and Additives

The Development of Firefighting

• Ladder Company Functions
• Staffing a Company
• Staffing Trials
• Establishment of Rescue Companies
• Influence on the Fire Service by the Insurance Industry
• Progress in Firefighting
• European Methods

Firefighting Strategy

• Personnel Requirements
• Apparatus Response Time
• Establishment of a Command Post
• Span of Control
• Incident Command System

Firefighting Tactics

• Tactical Considerations
• Location of the Fire
• Extension Probability
• Types of Fires
• Analysis of the Fire Situation

The Action Plan – Working at A Fire

• Finding the Fire
• Rescue, Search, Entry, Ventilation
• Protection of Exposures
• Safety
• Communication
• Salvage, Overhaul, Extinguishment
• Cooperation of Other Agencies

Fire ground Control and Coordination

• Stress Situations
• Coordination
• Tactical Errors and Weaknesses
• Application of the Tactics

Safety On the Fire ground

• Building Collapse
• Burns, Smoke Inhalation, Electrocution
• Safety and Building Collapse
• Heat Hazard and Clothing
• Clothing Limitations and Problems
• Getting Lost
• Critical Incident Stress

The Fire Building – Hindrance and Help

• Vertical Spread of Heat and Smoke
• Structural Failure
• Building Collapse
• Mill Construction
• Collapse from Water

Sprinkler Operations

• Checking the Supply
• Sprinkler Flow
• Automatic Wet-Pipe System
• Automatic Dry-Pipe System
• Deluge Systems
• Non-Automatic Systems

Ladder Company Operations

• Some Common Mistakes
• Ladder Company Positioning
• Necessity of Assigning Tools
• Use of Ground Ladders
• Need for Scaling Ladders

Engine Company Operations

• Hydrants
• Tandem Pumping
• Hydrant-to-Pumper Layout
• Hose Operations, Large-Diameter Hose
• Hydrant Selection
• Lines Taken from A Pumper
• Restricted Inlet Flow
• Delivering The Water
• Interior and Exterior Attack

Pre-Fire Planning

• Stress on No variables
• Post-Fire Analysis
• Evaluation Standards

Major Fires  

• Logistical Factors
• Command Structure
• Staging Area
• Fire Officials of Disaster Area

The Everyday Fire

• Plastics, Oil Burners
• Chimney, and Attic Fires
• Mercantile, and Taxpayer Fires
• Multiple-Dwelling Fires
• Apartments
• Factory Fires

Special-Problem Fires

• High-Rise Fires
• Transportation Fires
• Hazardous Materials
• Aircraft Fires
• Fires in Places of Worship and Assembly

Emergency Response Management

• Identifying the key components of a Safety Management System (SMS)
• Emergency control
• Team and personnel training
• Resources and organization of the team and support facilities
• Investigation
• Safety Management Systems
• Relevant key elements that make up an integrated HSE Management System – SMS in action
• Planning for efficient emergency response and crisis management
• Establishing a major accident prevention policy
• Incident develop or crisis
• Structuring your organization’s approach to crisis and emergency management
• The warning of the public in an emergency
• Justifying the role of industrial emergency response resources
• Methodology – Risk based scenario reviews
• Alternatives conclusions/findings
• Responding to the emergency
• Activating emergency response plans
• Undertaking crucial decision
• communications and problems encountered to bring the situation to a speedy conclusion
• Contracting out emergency process
• Choosing the right contractor
• Back up resources required