Fire safety training for nurseries is a legal necessity, not a nice-to-have: fire safety legislation requires childcare settings to have trained fire marshals and a clear emergency plan, and every member of staff needs to understand their role if a fire occurs. This Level 2 course covers fire prevention, risk assessment and evacuation procedures for early years environments.
For your setting, the benefit is a team that can act calmly and correctly in an emergency involving young children — knowing who does what, where everyone goes, and how to prevent incidents from happening in the first place. It also gives you documented evidence that your staff are trained, ready for compliance and Ofsted audit.
What you’ll learn
- Fire safety legislation and your legal obligations as a childcare provider
- How to identify fire hazards in an early years setting — and how to reduce them
- How to carry out a fire risk assessment
- The roles and responsibilities of fire marshals and wardens
- The correct emergency evacuation procedure for your setting
- The different classes of fire and the types of fire extinguisher that match them
- How to prevent fires and manage fire-related incidents
Who this course is for
All childcare and nursery staff, with particular value for anyone taking on fire marshal duties or coordinating evacuations in your setting. Because everyone on the team has a part to play in an emergency, it works well as whole-setting training rather than something reserved for one or two named individuals.
Why this training matters
Fire safety legislation places clear duties on childcare providers: trained fire marshals, a workable emergency plan, and staff who understand their role if a fire breaks out. Evacuating a room of young children is a very different challenge from evacuating an office, so training built specifically around early years settings — hazards, procedures and all — gives your team preparation that generic courses can’t.
How the course works
The course is delivered online and is fully self-paced, so staff can complete it around their shifts on any device. Learning is media-rich with voiceovers throughout, keeping the content engaging from start to finish.
Your certificate
On successful completion your staff receive an NFAQ-accredited completion certificate, giving you recognised evidence of training for compliance and Ofsted audit. National Nursery Training is an NFAQ-accredited training provider, so every certificate carries accreditation your setting can rely on.
