How to Make a Fire Safety Training Video 

Each year, thousands of fires occur, many at workplaces, causing serious harm to the victims involved. As a business owner, you should be aware of the potential risks involved should a fire occur, and you must provide your team with safety training to ensure their understanding as well. Businesses can suffer losses in the billions if a fire breaks out, and statistically most fires are the result of human error or equipment failure. Learning how to make a fire safety training video that you can use to engage your team and provide them with the essential skills training required to ensure their safety at work while minimizing the potential risk of human error is important for any business owner to consider.

With proper training, employees will be better prepared for the potential risks involved on the job, and they’ll have the knowledge required to potentially reduce human errors that may otherwise lead to fire. Through changed habits, improved awareness, and strong overall understanding of fire safety, your team can rest assured that you’ve done what you can to prevent a problem and, should a fire occur, everyone knows what the expectations are to ensure safety.

Divide Up Fire Safety Training Video Concepts

Before you get started, it’s important that your fire safety training video creates a microlearning environment for your team. Microlearning is a term used to describe learning which can occur quickly using technology so that the “student” or learner has the most effective experience.  Typically, a microlearning segment is about 10 minutes or less, but the average microlearning video for training purposes is about 2-5 minutes. Of course, it’s also important to make your fire safety training video as long as it needs to be to fulfill the learning outcome or goal.

In order to keep training videos about 5 minutes long, they are broken down into individual topics with specific goals and learning outcomes. For example, fire safety training can generally be broken down into several stages or modules.  Consider the following topics for your fire safety training video series:

• Topical coverage of fire. What it is. How fire works. What the hazards are for fire, and how employees can recognize these hazards.
• Coverage of the different classes or types of fires and what makes each fire stand out
• How to prepare for a potential fire and what to do to prevent fires from occurring.
• Understanding fire extinguishers and how to use them to put a fire out.
• What to do in the event of a fire emergency.

Producing a fire safety training video that you can use to engage your workers and provide them with essential training for their own safety as well as for the safety of others involved with your business is an important task. Once you’ve broken your topics down, consider whether you will make one video per topic or several. Then you’re ready to get started!

Define Who Your Audience is & Why You’re Creating a Fire Safety Training Video

Too often, we see business owners jump to the production of fire safety training without first carefully considering who their audience is and why they’ve decided to use video for the training. Considering your target audience and their needs will help you to plan your training video content in a way that will resonate with them. Think about what your employees already know and what they need to know. Consider how you can use visuals and storytelling to provide your audience with an experience that they will later recall and benefit from should fire, or the risk of fire, arise. 

Write Video Script & Create Storyboard

Once you’ve come up with some details about how you can target your audience with your content, writing the script for your fire safety training video is the next step. A few things to consider when writing your script:

• Aim for about 150 words per minute. A little more, or a little less is okay!
• Use a conversational tone and avoid the use of slang, jargon, or complex wording.
• Create at least 1 character and a storyline that incorporates that character.
• Plan your words carefully and think about the visuals that will align with the narration.

With your script in hand, you can begin to layout your storyboard. Since you’re creating a fire safety training video, your storyboard is likely to contain details that allude to special effects in which fire will be involved. The storyboard is like your practice zone where you can coordinate and organize all of the little details that you want to include in your video without wasting time in production. Try things out, if they visually don’t seem like they’ll work the way you expected, try something else! It’s much easier to change things now than it will be during the shoot.

Hire Production & Post-Production Support

You’ve made it to the final stages of producing a fire safety training video, but this is where things get complicated. Unless you’re a film producer, you likely don’t have the equipment and gear required to produce a training video and you probably won’t have the software required to edit the video, either. Due to the lack of tools, as well as a lack of filmmaking experience, this is the stage where most business owners choose to hire some support.

At Beverly Boy Productions, we have decades of professional videography experience. If you’re ready to make a fire safety training video that you can use to bring your team up to speed and keep them safe at work, give us a call! We can’t wait to help you create training videos that will keep your team safe.