This Virtual College CPD approved online Fire Marshal and Warden Training course has been designed as part of our essential health and safety training courses for anyone who would like to become a Fire Marshal or Fire Warden. Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires employers to have a fire safety strategy. The ideal way to ensure this strategy is effective is to ensure Fire Warden Training has been completed by a responsible team member.
This course was reviewed and updated in February 2025
This training is suitable for anyone who is interested in undertaking the role of a Fire Warden. The course will take you through all of the must-know aspects of taking on this important role.
Ensuring people can evacuate safely in the event of a fire is so important that it’s enshrined in law.
A fire safety strategy is required in all organisations and premises, and that means many businesses have a dedicated Fire Marshal or Fire Warden who is responsible for this. They’re the ones that carry out a fire risk assessment and ensure that the appropriate precautions are in place as well as a fire management plan.
They identify potential workplace fire hazards and improve effective fire emergency procedures. Not only that, Fire Marshals manage evacuations and ensure everyone is accounted for at the fire assembly point. You’ll find out a lot more in this training course!
This Fire Warden training is suitable for anyone who is interested in undertaking the role of a Fire Warden. It allows business to be prepared if the worst happens, and to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
The role of a fire marshal or fire warden is crucial in workplace safety. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, employers must have an effective fire safety strategy. As a trained Fire Warden, you'll be an essential part of your organisation's emergency evacuation plan.
During a fire or alarm activation, Fire Wardens conduct thorough building searches and manage the evacuation process. As a Fire Marshal, you'll oversee the assembly point, ensuring all occupants and Fire Wardens are accounted for after evacuation.
A fire marshal's main duties are around preventing preventative duties include:
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires competent persons to assist in implementing fire safety measures. This training will help you understand your legal obligations and how to fulfil them effectively.
While you may see both terms used, fire marshals and fire wardens essentially share the same primary goal - protecting workplace health and safety through effective fire safety measures. Both roles are considered 'responsible persons' under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, receive the same fire safety training, and share core responsibilities for fire prevention and emergency response.
Some organisations may choose to split these roles between different individuals, particularly in larger buildings, but many businesses combine them into a single position.
The number of fire marshals or wardens needed depends on your workplace's fire risk level, which is directly related to how many employees you have:
This training is suitable for anyone who is interested in undertaking the role of a Fire Warden.
Whatever the organisation or premises, the legislation requires employers to have a fire safety strategy, which will allow all occupants to evacuated safely in the case of a fire.
In order to build this strategy, a responsible person (usually an owner or employer) has to carry out a risk assessment, decide on appropriate fire precautions and maintain a fire safety management plan.
As a way of ensuring the effectiveness of their strategy, many businesses are appointing a fully-trained fire warden as part of the emergency evacuation strategy.
It is this important role that is the focus of this elearning fire marshal course.
Having a designated fire warden at your workplace will help ensure your business is prepared for a fire emergency and can conduct a safe evacuation of the business premise. The Fire Marshal role is also to identify potential workplace fire hazards and report any hazards found to the appropriate person. Also to assist in the implementation of fire safety best practices and improving effective fire emergency procedures in your workplace.
In the event of a fire or fire alarm is triggered, the Fire Marshal or Fire Warden need to ensure that the premises get evacuated and searched in a timely. The Fire Warden could be the person most at risk during the evacuation process, because they may be the last person to evacuate the building after completing a search of the affected building.
During an evacuation a Fire Marshal should go directly to their assembly point and manage the evacuation from outside the building in a fire emergency. The Fire Marshal is responsible for ensuring that everyone who exits the building is accounted and makes sure that all Fire Wardens are accounted for after completing their search of the business premises.
A Fire Marshal’s main duty is to assist in the prevention of fires in the workplace by ensuring that:
This vital safety legislation requires competent persons to assist the person who has overall responsibility for fire safety, in implementing and carrying out preventative and protective fire safety measures.
This means that anyone who has key responsibility of a business premises, must take reasonable actions to reduce the risk from fire and ensure that there is an effective fire evacuation plan is in place in the event of a fire.
Upon completion of this online fire marshal training course, learners will understand:
This fire marshal certificate is accredited by CPD and the certificate, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.
By completing the course you will receive 1 CPD point.
Learners will be able to download a digital fire warden/ fire marshal certificate immediately on completion.
This course will take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. As an e-learning course you can complete this training in convenient stages. The system will record your progress throughout and at the end you will receive your fire warden certification.
There are no entry requirements for this fire marshal course.
After completing this fire marshal training online, you could progress to several other of our popular courses including:
We also offer a Fire Safety for Fire Marshals and Fire Wardens Training Package which combines our accredited fire safety courses into one handy package saving you 20% in the process.
Roles including:
Yes. This Virtual College CPD approved online Fire Marshal and Warden Training course has been designed for anyone who would like to become a Fire Marshal or Fire Warden. See more about our packages here.
All employees acting as fire wardens need to receive at least basic training. Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records. For more FAQs, see here.
The course usually take between 2-4 hours to complete, depending on the speed of learning. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout and the training can be paused and resumed in our learning management system at any time.
Fire safety legislation makes it clear to businesses what their responsibilities are regarding fire safety in the workplace.
Appointing an appropriate number of fire wardens to implement fire safety measures is a key part of all fire safety legislation in the UK.
The legislation also states that it is the business owner’s responsibility to ensure that all appointed fire wardens have received adequate training to ensure their competence in the role.
See more of our fire safety training here.
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This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.