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Provide ventilation

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Strategic actions

Fire and rescue services should:

Consider providing equipment to ventilate confined spaces

Tactical actions

Incident commanders should:

Consider ventilating confined spaces to improve internal conditions
Isolate or limit all ignition sources before ventilating a confined space if flammable gases may be present

TRAINING SPECIFICATION

Knowledge and understanding

Control measure element	Learning outcome
Provide ventilation	Understand: The benefits and hazards of ventilating a confined space

Practical application

Control measure element	Learning outcome
Provide ventilation	Demonstrate the ability to: Safely ventilate a confined space to remove gases

NOS performance criteria

You must be able to:
Respond to fire and rescue incidents
P 3 Establish risks affecting fire and rescue incidents in line with your organisation’s risk assessment procedures P 4 Use agreed methods and techniques to control and reduce fire in line with your agreed tasks and duties at an incident P 5 Operate within appropriate risk control measures in line with your organisation's procedures
Respond to fire and rescue incidents 2889
P Use agreed methods and techniques to control and reduce fire in line with your agreed tasks and duties at an incident P Operate within appropriate risk control measures in line with your organisation's procedures P Operate in a safe manner within your agreed level of responsibility and expertise
For the whole standard
P 10 Operate in a safe manner within your agreed level of responsibility and expertise

Control measure
Carry out atmospheric testing and monitoring
Control measure
Isolate or limit ignition sources