• Best Practices

    Ensure that your workers are properly instructed and trained on how to do their work safely.

  • Practice Scenarios

    Practice carrying out fire control and reporting uncontrolled fires with your crews at the worksite.

  • Training Prompts

    Use these fire related awareness training topics with your crews, and adapt them to your worksite.

Safety Training in the Field

Put wild fire awareness into practice, with real-world scenarios and guided discussion prompts.

The Western Forestry Contractors’ Association has developed this Wildfire Awareness Course to provide supervisors with the materials they need to train their staff and meet their fire obligations under the Wildfire Act.

Use this resource to ensure that your staff understand specific procedures and general requirements for wild fire safety and response.

Training curriculum

    1. Acknowledgements

    2. Introduction to Tier 3

    3. Your Feedback

    1. Practice Scenarios for Your Crew

    2. Scenario 1: Carrying Out Fire Control

    3. Scenario 2: Reporting Uncontrolled Fire

    1. How to Use the Fire Related Safety Topics

    2. Anchor Point

    3. Attempting Frontal Assault

    4. Communications

    5. Escape Routes

    6. Safety Zones

    7. Fire Below You

    8. Fire Not Scouted or Sized Up

    9. Frequent Spot Fires Across The Guard

    10. Heavy Equipment Operations

    11. Helicopter Bucketing

    12. In Country Not Seen in Daylight

    13. Instructions and Assignments Not Clear

    14. Lookouts

    15. No Communication Link

    16. On a Hillside

    17. Extreme Fire Behaviour (Part 1)

    18. Extreme Fire Behaviour (Part 2)

    19. Retardant and Water Drop Safety

    20. Smoke Exposure

    21. Terrain and Fuels Make Escape to Safety Zones Difficult

    22. Unburned Fuel Between You and the Fire

    23. Uninformed on Strategy, Tactics and Hazards

    24. Weather and Local Factors

    25. Write Your Own

    26. Download: Fire Related Safety Topics PDF

Wildfire Awareness Training: Tier 3