Start with the fire prevention plan
Learning objective: Explain when this rule applies and what the workplace review must add.
You start a job near a heated drying unit. You passed an online fire safety course, but do not know which materials must stay away from the heat. You still need the site hazards and controls explained. A course score cannot supply those local facts.
A fire prevention plan, or FPP, sets out how to keep a fire from starting and limit its spread. This course uses the federal general-industry rule, 1910.39. The employer must have an FPP when another applicable standard in Part 1910 requires one. Having more than ten employees is not, by itself, that trigger.
A required FPP must be written, kept at the workplace and available for employee review. An employer with ten or fewer employees may explain it orally. This exception changes the form of the plan. It does not remove its required content or the duty to inform workers.
Upon initial assignment to a job, the employer must inform you of the fire hazards you face. The employer must also review the parts of the FPP you need to protect yourself. Ask for clear words, questions and help with language or format needs.
This course teaches worker knowledge. It does not approve a plan or qualify you to repair equipment, perform hot work or fight a fire. Other standards, State Plan rules and local requirements may also apply. Your employer checks those duties for the actual work.
Source context: 1910.39(a), (b), (d)