What:
The modern day consumer and corporate life is dwelled into man made facilities and towering structures, which are an amalgamation of a lot of electrical, hydraulic and gastro installations working in conjuncture. One hazard which this amalgamation puts us at a risk of is fire outbreaks, and this is why the hue and cry about fire and health safety. A recent campaign by the health and safety department in Canada, quite rightly captures this grave risk:” Duty without fire safety… brings fatality.”.
For a modern day corporate working in such conditions, it is thus imperative to have its workforce trained and made abreast about fire safety. Alongside training modules, there ought also to be sturdy testing modules to assess how well this imparted knowledge is being grasped. Assesshub’s assessment on fire safety has been developed for this very cause, and is today being incorporated across industries.
How:
AssessHub’s online assessment center runs a very intelligently crafted and presented fire safety awareness test, which can be imbibed and followed by cross functional and multi-lingual employees. This is devised in accordance with the current health and safety norms prevalent in the world, and is in an away a professional accreditation for the organization.
The module begins with a graphically engaging session which builds up the initial knowledge about fire sate in the viewers. IT presents the hazards which unplanned fire outbreaks may lead to, and how these can be prevented in the first place. Interactive videos and animations have been used to then describe the more curative side of things – what should be done in an event of a fire.
The fire safety assessment also comprises of an exhaustive, yet interactive assessment to judge the level of absorption of the presented information. This can be modeled based upon the specific requirements of the organization for which it is being run.
Why:
The Fire and Safety department in the US claims 1298000 cases reported in the year 2014-15, and most of these were in high occupancy buildings. The number of cases are staggering, but the bright side is that almost 47 percent of these caused the maximum fatalities, and could have been minimized with effective fire safety awareness amongst the inhabitants.
Main advantage:
While fire safety is not a very deep topic in terms of knowledge, it is important that the topic is taken up with the necessary stress and importance, while ensuring it doesn’t become too hard to follow. AssessHub’s online assessment center through the fire safety awareness test presents the subject through graphical modules, which are engaging and aid easy recollection.
A scenario driven approach is used to present the key concepts of fire safety such as common hazards, causes, preventive measures, and curative actions. The fire exits in the facility can be easily embedded into the modules by administrators, and this is what makes AssessHub’s fire safety test a very versatile awareness campaign.
