Fire Behaviour Instructor

Length 10 days

Accreditations Skills for Justice (SFJ) Awards

Sectors Emergency Services

Course overview

Become the instructor who brings fire behaviour to life—safe, skilled, and fully compliant with national guidance.

Become a certified instructor in fire behaviour training. This 10-day course equips experienced personnel with the skills to safely operate fire behaviour units and deliver both theoretical and practical training. This programme ensures instructors are confident, competent, and compliant with national guidance.

Key benefits

Train in large compartment fire scenarios using varied firefighting media.
Learn to deliver training in flashover, backdraught, and fire gas ignition.
Develop lesson planning, exercise control, and debriefing skills.
Includes case study analysis and wind-driven fire theory.

Instructor fitting trainee with breathing apparatus

This course is for

Personnel experienced in delivering fire behaviour training.
Fire service instructors seeking formal qualification.
Trainers preparing to teach compartment fire behaviour.

What you'll learn

Fire science and behaviour.
Fire gas ignitions, flashover, and backdraught.
Container systems (gas and carbonaceous).
Door assessments and water application techniques.
BA equipment and safety procedures.
Training design, delivery, and control.
Incident study and simulation.

Length 10 days

Accreditations Skills for Justice (SFJ) Awards

Sectors Emergency Services

Entry requirements

You will need to have completed a teaching or training qualification and be fit for full operational duties in accordance with service requirements. This course is for competent wearers of breathing apparatus as detailed in the National Operational Guidance for BA.

Delivery format

In-person at Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh. Assessment: Theory and practical instruction, including live fire scenarios.

Certification awarded

SFJ Level 3 Award in Compartment Fire Behaviour Training.

Enquire now

For further information or to make a booking on this course please contact the Business Development Team on 01608 812984 or complete the enquiry form below: