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12 Top Safety Tips
New Fire Safety Law
Fire Safety Education Programme
12 Top Safety Tips
How to make your house a safe home:
1. Fit smoke alarms on each level in your home. Keep them free from dust and test them once a week. Consider buying a 10-year alarm; otherwise change the batteries in your alarm every year.
2. Make a fire action plan so that everyone in your home knows how to escape if there is a fire.
3. Keep the exits form your home clear so that people can escape if there is a fire. Make sure that everyone in your home can easily find keys for doors and windows.
4. Take extra care in the kitchen - accidents while cooking account for over half of fires in homes. Never leave young children alone in the kitchen.
5. Take extra care when cooking with hot oil. Consider buying a deep-fat fryer which is controlled by a thermostat (if you don't already have one).
6. Never leave lit candles in rooms that nobody is in or in rooms where children are on their own. Make sure candles are in secure holders on a surface that does not burn and are away from any materials that could burn.
7. Make sure cigarettes are stubbed out properly, disposed of carefully and never smoke in bed.
8. Get into the habit of closing doors at night. If you want to keep a child's bedroom door open, close the doors to the lounge and kitchen, it may well help save their life if there is a fire.
9. Don't overload electrical sockets. Remember one plug for one socket.
10. Keep matches and lighters where children cannot see or reach them.
11. Take special care when you are tired or when you've been drinking.
12. don't leave the TV or other electrical appliances on standby as this could cause a fire. Always switch it off and unplug when not in use.
New Fire Safety Law
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - Due 1st October 2006
The new regime of fire safety enforcement to be brought into force on 1st October 2006 will effect employers and those who are responsible for, non-domestic, Industrial, commercial and residential premises. Self-employed people and the voluntary sector will also be brought within this regime.
The aim is to simplify, rationalise and consolidate existing fire safety legislation. It will provide for a risk-based approach to fire safety allowing more efficient effective enforcement by the fire and rescue service. See the website for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for further details.
At the core of the legislation lies the fire risk assessment.
This is an organised appraisal of your work activities and the workplace to enable you to identify potential fire hazards, and to decide who (including employees and visitors) might be in danger in the event of fire, and their location.
You will then evaluate the risks arising from the hazards and decide whether the existing fire precautions are adequate, or whether more needs to be done.
From the 1st October 2006 occupiers of premises designated under the Fire Precautions Act 1971 will no longer need to apply for a Fire Certificate.
All businesses must carry out a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment of the risks of fire to their employees and others who may be affected by their work or business. Those who employ five or more employees should keep a formal record of any significant findings and remedial measures which have, or may need to be, taken.
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Fire Safety Education Programme
Fire is one of the leading causes of accidental injury and death amongst children.
On average 50 children under the age of 11 are killed in fires in the UK every year and around 1,800 are injured.
The fire safety education programme has been developed by the National Community Fire Safety Centre to increase children's and young people's awareness of the risks from fire and to help develop the skills they need to be safer adults.
It is intended that this programme is delivered by teachers with support from their local Fire and Rescue Service. This site contains curriculum aligned teaching resources for use with 4–16 year olds.