Författare
Graveling RA, Stewart A, Cowie HA, Tesh KM, George JPK
Utgivare
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Utgivningsår
2001
The vast majority of Brigades provide some form of heat and/or live fire training for their firefighters, either within their own resources or contracted out. A survey showed only limited knowledge of the extent of the hazard, i.e the temperature to which firefighters and instructors are exposed. Data collection systems were established at a number of training venues, covering environmenta temperatures, body temperatures of firefighters and instructors and comments and opinions on the aims and objectives of the training provided. These data were used to establish provinsional guideline environmental temperatures for three main types of training in elevated temperatures: heat and humidity; fire behaviour and search and rescue.