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Fire Safety and Evacuation for Schools eLearning
Online fire safety training for schools: evacuating a building full of children, accounting for classes, and the arrangements for pupils who cannot self-evacuate.
Who it is for
Who this fire safety and evacuation for schools course is for
Evacuating a school is not evacuating an office. Hundreds of children, class registers, pupils with additional needs, and staff who must stay calm while doing it. The arrangements have to be understood before the alarm sounds.
- All school staff, teaching and support
- Site and premises managers
- School business managers and bursars
- Early years and SEN staff
- Catering, cleaning and office teams
- Governors with a premises remit
Course content
What the fire safety and evacuation for schools course covers
Five short lessons covering fire in a school setting, prevention, fire doors and escape routes, evacuating classes, pupils who need help, and assembly and roll call, then a 12-question assessment.
Fire in a school setting
The fire risks particular to schools, who is responsible, and why evacuation of children needs planning.
Prevention, fire doors and escape routes
Preventing fires in school, keeping displays safe, fire doors, and escape routes.
Evacuating classes
Leading a class out calmly, registers, closing doors, lessons in specialist rooms, and break and lunchtime.
Pupils who need help
Personal emergency evacuation plans for pupils, refuges, early years, and pupils with additional needs.
Assembly and roll call
Taking registers at the assembly point, missing pupils and adults, visitors, and briefing the fire service.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise the fire risks specific to a school and how to prevent them
- Keep escape routes and fire doors effective, including with displays
- Evacuate a class calmly and account for every pupil
- Support pupils who cannot evacuate unaided, following their PEEPs
- Take part in the assembly point roll call and handle a missing person
Your legal duty
The law behind fire safety and evacuation for schools training
In England and Wales the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to schools like any other non-domestic premises. The responsible person must carry out a fire risk assessment, put general fire precautions in place, make arrangements for evacuation and provide employees with adequate fire safety training.
Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own fire safety legislation. Who the responsible person is in a school depends on the school type and its arrangements with the local authority or trust.
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - England and Wales
- Duty to make evacuation arrangements and provide adequate training
- Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own fire safety legislation
- The responsible person varies by school type
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Nominated wardens in a school need the warden-specific course.
For employers
Fire Safety and Evacuation for Schools training for a team
Fire arrangements only work if every adult on site knows them, including catering, cleaning and office staff.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Fire Safety and Evacuation for Schools eLearning: common questions
Annually is the interval most schools set, alongside termly drills. The certificate itself is valid for three years.
Yes. Refuges, assisted evacuation and personal emergency evacuation plans are covered as a module, because they are the part most often left unplanned.
Accounting for pupils is central to a school evacuation, and the course covers how it usually works. Your own procedure sets the detail.
No. Nominated wardens or marshals in a school need the warden course, which covers sweeping, roll call and reporting.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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