Fire Fighting Course in Pretoria

DDi runs the Basic Fire Fighting course in Pretoria in two ways. Your team can be trained onsite at your workplace anywhere in Pretoria, from R605 per person for groups of 20 or more (R790 for 5 to 9), excl. VAT. One or two people can join a public class at our Centurion venue for R890 per person. Either way it is a 4-hour, OHS Act compliant course with a practical on a real extinguisher.

Two Ways to Do the Course in Pretoria

Onsite at your Pretoria workplace

For a group, we come to you, anywhere in Pretoria and in Centurion and Midrand next door. Your fire team learns on the premises it has to protect, so the questions can be about your own building, exits and equipment. We bring the training extinguishers, including some that are faulty on purpose, so your team learns what to look for when it inspects its own. Request a quote with your address, the number of people and a preferred date.

Public class at our Centurion venue

Individuals and small groups join a public class at our Centurion venue, 99 Hornbill Avenue, Rooihuiskraal, not far off the N1. The class is a half day, 8:30am to 1pm. Pick a date, book your seat and pay securely online on the public class bookings page.

Fire Fighting Course Fees in Pretoria

• Public class in Centurion: R890 per person, the final amount.
• Onsite, groups of 5 to 9: R790 per person, excl. VAT.
• Onsite, groups of 20 or more: R605 per person, excl. VAT.
• Fewer than 5 people onsite: a flat rate for the group.
• 30 or more people: ask us, bigger discounts apply.

These are DDi’s 2026 prices. Onsite training also carries travel to your workplace: R550 flat up to 100 km round trip, then R5.50 per km, excl. VAT, quoted with your training. Every tier and the travel amounts are in the prices section below, and on our Course Prices 2026 page.

What Your Team Does in 4 Hours

1. Registers and enrolment: attendance registers signed and enrolment forms completed.
2. Theory: the classes of fire, which extinguisher for which fire, and the PASS method (pull, aim, squeeze, sweep).
3. Practical: everyone discharges a real extinguisher, so you know there is no explosion, just a release of dry chemical powder. We don’t light open fires.
4. Inspecting extinguishers: CO2 and dry chemical powder (DCP) extinguishers, some of them faulty on purpose, so you learn to spot the problems.
5. Assessment: a practical assessment, then a short theory assessment, signed by the assessor.

The full outline is on the Basic Fire Fighting course page.

Your Certificate

Basic Fire Fighting is OHS Act compliant training. It covers what the Occupational Health and Safety Act (Act 85 of 1993) and the General Safety Regulations, regulation 13J (fire precautions and means of egress, 2025) expect of the people who fight a fire at work. Delegates found competent get their certificate signed onsite at the end of the training, as long as we have their ID copy before the day.

The law sets no fixed validity for a fire fighting certificate. Your company’s internal policy, usually in its health and safety file or SHE policy, decides when people refresh. DDi recommends refreshing Basic Fire Fighting every year.

How Many Fire Fighters Does Your Workplace Need?

No regulation sets a number. DDi recommends 3 trained fire fighters for every 50 staff, because they work as a team and one of them can be absent. Work out your own number with the calculator on the Basic Fire Fighting page, and plan your evacuation with Evacuation Warden training.

Every Course We Run in Pretoria

All of these run onsite at your Pretoria workplace. First Aid Level 1, First Aid Level 3 and Basic Fire Fighting also run as public classes in Centurion, and SHE Rep Training, HIRA Training and Incident Investigation as online public classes.

For first aid in the city, see First Aid Training in Pretoria.