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KM-USA wrote:
Reason is that only "currently trained" personnel are allowed to use an extinguisher on a fire. And that training needs to be hands-on, and every year.
Fire training made a nice exciting change to routine lab work - we used to get to blast big pans of burning Diesel with time expired powder extinguishers. Fun . And the training really does help, as with everything there is a right way and a wrong way; one trainee managed to turn a nicely controlled diesel fire into an inferno by entraining air into the powder stream through waggling the nozzle back and forward too quickly instead of steady sweeps across the fire front.
Fire and first aid training are among the few things that you learn at work that are any use in the outside world as well.
Peter