Fire Prevention, Protection & Safety on Power Plants

Course Description

Power plants have special fire protection issues: few people on duty, limited numbers of response agencies, and few fixed systems. Further, because of the increasingly competitive nature of the Electric Power Generation market, reduced plant staffing and stricter OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) requirements for employee firefighting capabilities, employees of the power generating stations need to place increased emphasis on fire protection systems and firefighting techniques in order to minimize the impacts and consequences of fires, which can damage critical equipment and reduce availability and reliability of power supplies.

Course Outlines

• Fire protection principles
• The chemistry and physics of fire
• Fire suppression systems
• Life safety requirements and industrial fire hazards
• The application of power plant hazards & protection of turbines & generators
• Electrical equipment & auxiliaries and power plants
• General fire protection systems and equipment
• Staff motivation
• Hazards management
• Emergency procedures
• Permit to work systems
• Safety statistics and reporting on basic safety rules
• Preventable and non-preventable incidents
• Accident investigations and accident ratio studies
• The effect of risk assessment as hazard scan
• Unsafe conditions and practices
• How and when to do a hazard scan
• High risk areas identification
• The importance of formal written procedures