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Information In the UK, electricity is generated in a number of different ways. It is important to have different fuel sources and technologies to generate electricity so that supply is not overly...

Information Current Electricity, when flowing along a wire (known as a conductor), is called a current; this is a measure of the number of electrons passing a particular point in a conductor. This...

Knowledge and understanding Hazard Learning outcome Electricity Understand all associated hazard knowledge Refer to –...

Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome Isolate a domestic photovoltaic system Understand: The possible locations of isolation points and inverters ...

Knowledge and understanding Hazard Learning outcome Person entrapped by high-voltage electricity Understand all associated hazard...

Knowledge and understanding Hazard Learning outcome Illegal activity involving electricity Understand all associated hazard...

Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome Avoiding the risk of electrocution Understand: That personnel should not handle a casualty who is still in...

Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome Information to assist rescue Understand: The range of information that should be gathered How information...

Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome Advice when water has not entered the building Understand: The sources of information available to people to...

Hydrogen is the lightest gas that occurs in nature and is colourless and odourless. Hydrogen atoms pair up to produce diatomic molecules. Hydrogen has the chemical formula H2. Hydrogen is highly...

​Radioactivity has a number of uses in society; these may be summarised in an approximate order of severity of hazard: Weapons Image 109 Vanguard class submarine carrying trident nuclear...

Information Domestic voltage in the UK was historically referred to as 240 volt alternating current (AC) but is now supplied at 230V 50Hz. This is a single-phase earthed system. Voltages of more...

Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome Manage the release of flammable vapours Understand: Characteristics of flammable vapours released...

Knowledge and understanding Control measure element Learning outcome Factors affecting advice to people in road vehicles in water Understand: The range of factors that may affect...

Fire control personnel may receive calls from or about people with burns. This may include calls where a person’s clothing has caught fire and immediate guidance is needed to extinguish the...

Fire and rescue service activity for the emergency containment of pollutants on or in a watercourse will be limited by the equipment carried, the size of the water body and the practical skills and...

​ In physics, matter can be defined as any substance that has mass and takes up space. A state of matter is one of the distinct forms that matter takes on. Four states of matter are observable...

​ The firefighter is mostly concerned with energy in the form of heat. Heat may be produced by a chemical change such as combustion, in which we say that chemical energy is released as heat...

Whether two (or more) chemicals will react when they come into contact will depend on the properties of the chemicals concerned as well as some other factors such as: Temperature – an increase...

Information Production and importation Gas comes from offshore fields in the North and Irish Seas. It is also brought over from Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands via three interconnector pipes...