Responsible Persons Course – All areas of Fire Safety – Tutored Online
With the legal responsibilities for all businesses fire safety in the hands of the “responsible person” in an organisation, this course has been designed to assist your business and your RP with their duties under the law. We clarify the role and responsibilities of the designated person, we investigate some caselaw with examples of when things go wrong and the consequences. The course helps the attendee to formulate a fire safety plan and looks at how to provide a safe workplace or dwelling.
It is suitable for anyone who is the responsible person, someone who has fire safety responsibilities at work, landlords – private, commercial, and social housing and anyone wanting to learn more about fire safety.

Course Agenda
- Responsible Persons Legal Responsibilities
- Consequences of failing fire safety responsibilities
- Persons with competency in fire safety
- Fire Risk Assessments - what is 'Suitable and Sufficient'
- Preparations for the management and maintaining fire safety provisions in the workplace
- Fire Safety Information and training for employees within the workplace
- Understand the need for nominated employees who provide 'Safety Assistance' in the workplace
- Due Diligence and the recording of tests and inspections
- Common Causes of fire in the workplace
Our Practical Training
On this online full fire safety course, you will get an opportunity to do some exercises in groups online and our tutor for this course is a highly qualified fire risk assessor, level 4 FRA tutor with a background in the fire service, so there is plenty of opportunity to draw on his experience.
What you will receive
As we are an approved GQA training centre, you will receive a GQA certificate and skills card on successful completion of the end of course assessment.
Please note the completion of a training course alone cannot be evidence of competency, and at FDM we promote CPD and encourage our learners to treat our courses a jigsaw pieces in their overall continued professional development.
We regularly review and update our training courses to ensure they reflect the latest changes and updates in building regulations and best practices.
** Please note: Once you have confirmed your chosen date of training, we will be unable to move or change your selected date within 10 working days of your chosen date of training. **