S-100a / 10a Wildland Fire Fighting Annual Safety Refresher Course
(Course Fee $25.00 + 5% GST $1.25 = $26.25) Please Note: You are at this page either because you chose to be, OR because you have just attempted to take the quiz and you did not quite achieve the necessary number of correct answers required to pass - therefore, you have been re-directed back to this page. You are encouraged to retake the exam. There is no extra charge for you to do this. Thanks and good luck.
You may make payment arrangements AFTER you complete the course - see "Course Payments" in yellow navigation bar to your left. If you are paying for someone else or more than one person, click on "Course Payments" now, and see orange box. Please Note: FIRESAFETRAINING.com (DRAM Ventures Inc.) is no longer able to invoice individuals and therefore individual registrants will have their letter and official wallet card mailed upon receipt of payment. We will continue to issue corporate / employer invoices and we will also invoice for past individual clients in good standing. (paid in full for last year)
If you have been to this site previously you should "Refresh" or "Reload" the pages when you come to them as there are several changes and upgrades. (for this reason it is a good practice to do this on ANY web site / page that you have previously visited)
Scroll down to bottom of page to begin course and take quiz. Be sure to check out the two short fire entrapment avoidance videos in section 14.
IMPORTANT - You must fill in the "Mailing Address" information when you finish the exam in order for us to mail your wallet card!
Please Note If you are not quite successful with the Quiz, you are brought back to this page immediately which can save you some time and it makes it very easy to try again. Or - you may wish to read the material over again first which is recommended. Good luck.
There is no extra charge to retake the exam. 
Example of wallet card. The wallet card is not valid unless signed by us and has our sequential numbering. 
The Ministry of Forest's Logo states clearly the 1-800 number to call if you see a forest fire. Write this number down where you can easily access it in the event you need to report a fire. We suggest you even program it into your cell phone. (Logo courtesy of Ministry of Forests, Protection Branch - Victoria) 
Note the burning pickup bottom centre Photo - This online safety refresher course is designed for those people who currently possess a valid, S-100 Fire Fighting Certificate OR a valid S-100a / 10a Annual Refresher Card. Some folks may be more familiar with calling this the 10a refresher course. It is the same course. This online course is directed toward the W.C.B. (WorkSafe B.C.) regulation - Occupational Health and Safety, (OHSR) Part 26, Section 26.19. This section requires anyone wishing to be employed on the fire line must have proper training to an acceptable standard. The standard that has been set is the Ministry of Forest's two day, S-100 Basic Fire Suppression Course. An annual review (S-100A) of the safety features of the S-100 course is also required by WorkSafeBC. OHSR s. 26.3.1 (1) requires that workers in a forestry operation who fight a forest fire must be trained. "Any untrained (to the acceptable standard) forest worker deciding, or ordered, to stay and engage a fire would place the employer in non-compliance." The S-100a safety refresher course does NOT cover actual fire fighting procedures or tactics. The S-100a course is designed as a review of safety issues within the S-100 Course. We have also added other safety issues which are not in the S-100 but we feel are important. (i.e. rattlesnakes, hantavirus, and some vehicle safety) We make every attempt to keep all information as current as possible. Please note our comments which address the safety concerns of firefighting in stands of trees killed by the Mountain Pine Beetle. It should also be noted that it is the responsibility of the worker, in cooperation with their employer, to be briefed on the specific company's fire equipment and internal safety policies and procedures. A common Question we receive - "How many of our crew are required to have the S-100 training?" We have checked into this and the answer from WorkSafeBC (W.C.B.) is 100% of your ground crew who may be working in the forest MUST have taken and passed the complete, two day S-100 course, if, at any time they may be involved in a firefighting situation. The S-100A or 10a, as some refer to it as is the required annual safety refresher course for the S-100. That is it! We will do the rest for you. The fee for this online course is: $25.00 + $1.25 GST = $26.25 Total We can now accept credit card payments over the telephone. We have tried to keep our costing down for, you, our valued clients. We now also have the ability for provincial governments and some other organizations who have a GST Exemption Number to also pay online but with no GST. You will make payment arrangements after you register and complete the EXAM Please Note: Some people would like us to invoice their employer. We don't mind sending out invoices BUT, we do require permission from your employer first. Therefore, please make these arrangements and add a contact name and phone number or email so we can verify that your employer is willing to pay for you. We have created a couple of places where your employer's information can be printed. Thanks everyone, we strive to make this online course go smoothly for all of you. This course is intended to provide you with a meaningful review of the pertinent safety features of the B.C. Forest Service, Protection's S-100 Program. You must have completed the two day S-100 Course therefore all the material presented here is just review. Read each section carefully. If you are unsure of any topics you will find it very easy to go back and forth through the course material. Note There is a "GLOSSARY" Link in the navigation bar on each page. If you are looking for clarification on a word or term, you are encouraged to take a look. You will automatically be returned to the page you are currently on when you finish with the GLOSSARY. NOTE:
As long as the Ministry of Forests, Wildland Fire Management Branch, maintains their policy of the S-100 Course being a two day course, we will only recommend two day S-100 Courses. We would like very much to build a list of recognized S-100 instructors. (at this time there are no F.S. "approved" instructor's as such) We would also be happy to list, and even create a web page or two for each recognized instructor or institution who delivers the full, two day, S-100 Course. People phone us all the time to tell us of some course that is or has been delivered in six, eight or ten hours, etc. (we have even heard of one "full" S-100 course being done in three hours!) Retention span drops off dramatically after about five to six hours. ... and then after that there is an exam to write! Although there may be the rare one day course "out there", that is pretty good, there is still a lot of material that has to be skipped over or "watered down". This is a dis-service to you and your fellow workers when it comes to safety on the fire line. Please, if you know of a good instructor or institution who is delivering the recommended two day course, suggest to them they may want to contact us and get listed on this website. This will help connect people who require the course with someone who can deliver it for them. (we are not looking for any sort of course commission for this service) At the moment, besides ourselves, we have one other listing for course instructors who deliver the S-100 Course over a two day period. Check out the "Course Instructors" or contact us for more information if you are looking for an instructor. Thanks Upon successful completion of the exam you will be required to check off the "I agree to the Terms of Service". When you come to that "page" please look at the short "Terms of Service" where you are asked to declare that you currently hold a valid S-100 Certificate or S-100A Annual Safety Renewal card from last year.
(this declaration protects the integrity of the whole online program and will allow it to be used for the benefit of yourself and many other people for the future.) Thank You Quiz Login |
