Manufacturing sites present various safety risks due to the nature of the tasks, equipment, and materials involved. While prevention through safety systems is ideal, teams must also be prepared to evacuate during emergencies. Equip your teams for resilience with these 10 emergency evacuation training courses.
Fires are among the most common emergencies that trigger evacuations from manufacturing plants. Given the fire risks associated with hot work, machinery, combustible debris, and flammable chemicals on production floors, SC Training’s fire safety course can help teams confidently handle emergencies.
It includes a general overview of fire evacuation plans. Workers can learn to understand exit routes, identify individuals who need assistance, and clarify their responsibilities. The lesson also emphasizes the signs of fire emergencies, including alarm systems, to encourage alertness and prompt action.
Additionally, this emergency evacuation training outlines the proper steps to take in the event of flame-outs or explosions. It teaches your employees the RACE method, which stands for rescue, alarm, confine, and evacuate, empowering safe and organized exits from the premises.
Whether you're looking for evacuation, safety, quality, or compliance courses, SC Training’s library houses many manufacturing lessons to drive improvement. This way, you can always have materials ready and support your team to achieve their most productive work.
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Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson (self-paced)
Certificate: Available
Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
Spill scenarios involving substances such as chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, toluene, and benzene are considered immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH). Since these substances are common on production floors, this training equips your crew members to evacuate spill sites and protect lives.
SC Training’s hazardous material training has a module on emergency action plans for dangerous spills based on US regulations. It covers the importance of swift evacuation and describes the immediate decontamination procedures that must be followed. This includes safety showers and eyewashes to address harmful exposure.
This emergency training lesson also tackles site isolation to contain spills. It teaches your teams to secure entry points once everyone is evacuated, making sure substance fumes, vapors, and particles don’t spread.
Created by: SC Training
Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson (self-paced)
Certificate: Available
Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
Evacuation Procedures Training Course is a comprehensive emergency evacuation training program by Safety Services Direct that focuses on the basic steps to take if there is an emergency in the workplace.
More specifically, this online course outlines the necessary procedures for fire emergencies, including how to raise the alarm, who to contact, where to assemble, how to safely evacuate the worksite, and what to do if you are unable to leave the building.
General Evacuation Training is a certificate program by TCP Training designed to help companies learn how to set up their emergency evacuation procedures and inform their employees of their responsibilities during an emergency.
By the end of this course, employees will be able to understand the importance of emergency training and their roles during an emergency, identify specific emergency plan, prevention and preparation strategies, and know what actions to take after they have evacuated.
SC Training offers a pre-made course template that allows you to incorporate your organization’s standard procedures for fire emergencies and chemical accidents. This way, you can deliver evacuation training tailored to the characteristics and layout of your production facilities.
This ready-to-use training also features a general course on each employee’s responsibilities during an evacuation. It emphasizes memorizing exit routes, assembly areas, and the location of fire extinguishers and alarms.
Created by: SC Training
Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson (self-paced)
Certificate: Available
Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
This evacuation safety training focuses on bringing awareness about the importance of emergency preparedness and communicating necessary steps to protect workers from risks such as fires, earthquakes, and security threats.
This online course helps employees learn how to raise an alarm during fire emergencies, what to do when a fire alarm goes off, how to assist disabled persons, how to safely exit a building through stairs and not an elevator, and what to do during a security threat like terrorist attacks.
Mastery Training Services offers an on-demand video course for evacuation procedures in manufacturing plants. It guides your team through proper responses to fires, explosions, hazardous material emergencies, and active shooter scenarios.
This course teaches your workers the fundamentals of emergency preparedness and evacuation planning. Mintra’s emergency management training covers various risk scenarios to consider and strategies for addressing each one. It also outlines the essential information required to communicate response procedures.
Safetyhub designed the course to help organizations effectively and safely evacuate during emergencies like fires, chemical spills, toxic or explosive gas releases, bomb threats, and other security hazards.
Aside from providing an overview of employee responsibilities and emergency evacuation best practices, the 9-minute online training program also highlights the importance of preparing an evacuation plan and an emergency evacuation team, as well as having the contact information of your area’s chief warden on hand.
It walks workers through the steps to take during fire emergencies, including knowing the four classes of fire and the PASS method for using fire extinguishers. The course also delves into bomb threat emergency response techniques, how to check the building premises, and necessary protocols in case a bomb explosion occurs.
The last lesson discusses emergency evacuation procedures needed to mitigate HAZMAT incidents, including general guidelines for handling hazardous materials.
Created by: SC Training
Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson (self-paced)
Certificate: Available
Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
Emergency evacuation training is a program that equips your team with the skills and knowledge needed to respond swiftly and effectively during emergencies and crisis situations. Your staff can learn to remain calm under pressure, follow evacuation protocols, and assist others in need.
To secure a swift and safe evacuation for everyone involved in times of emergency or crisis situations, your team needs to be familiar with the so-called five key instructions in an emergency evacuation:
Emergency training and evacuation drills allow your workers to adapt to various circumstances. As a result, your site can minimize the impact of incidents. Let’s break that down further below:
Regardless of the industry or sector, all organizations need to be able to respond to workplace emergencies in a speedy manner to mitigate risks of injury or death. Companies must always be prepared to evacuate immediately from dangers such as fires, toxic gas or chemical spills, severe weather like storm and tornado, or even security threats like bombs and terrorist attacks.
To achieve this, you must have a clear emergency response plan in place and give your employees the necessary emergency evacuation training. With proper preparation and training under their belts, employees will be able to respond quickly and more confidently to emergency situations and emergency notification, assess their environment, evacuate without panicking, and ensure that everyone is accounted for.
To help you get started, take advantage of our list of emergency evacuation training courses to find topics that you can deploy to your own teams.
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