Credit: 2 PDH
Course Fee: $35.00
17 pages

Course Summary:

Fire safety is an important concern in all types of construction. The high level of national concern for fire safety is reflected in limitations and design requirements in building codes. These code requirements are discussed in the context of fire safety design and evaluation in the initial section of this course. Since basic data on fire behavior of wood products are needed to evaluate fire safety for wood construction, the second major section of this course covers fire performance characteristics of wood products. The course concludes with a discussion of flame-retardant treatments that can be used to reduce the combustibility of wood.

Learning Objective:

By the end of this course the participant will learn:

1. Fire Safety Design and Evaluation
2. Types of Construction
3. Fire Growth Within Compartment
4. Flashover
5. Containment to Compartment of Origin
6. Fire Safety Engineering
7. Fire Performance Characteristics of Wood
8. Ignition
9. Heat Release
10. Flame Spread
11. Smoke and Toxic Gases
12. Charring and Fire Resistance
13. Flame-Retardant Treatments
14. Fire-Retardant-Treated Wood
15. Flame-Retardant Pressure Treatments
16. Flame-Retardant Coatings
17. This document is free to download. The quiz is also free to download and take as many times as the participant wants until passed before purchase.

Review the quiz before studying the course.

Course Author: US Forest Service

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