Fire Safety Checklist for Business
Introduction Fire Safety in the office can be a lot to handle. Often for those managing or owning businesses, dealing with it can become a burden alongside other typically-demanding duties. As such, we’ve created a fire safety checklist with which you can manage all procedures you need to implement in your workplace. Below, you can…
Read MoreFire Safety in Schools: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Understanding the UK requirements for fire safety in schools can be challenging. All fire safety practice in the UK, whether in commercial or non-domestic premises, is based on the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Moreover, this document doesn’t provide specific examples for schools, or any other premises for that matter. To make things…
Read MoreWhy is Fire Safety Training Important?
If you run a business with a physical workspace or business area where people visit, you should pay attention to why fire safety training is important. You and your staff will need to complete specified training in order to stay in line with legal requirements and ensure the safety of yourselves and any of your…
Read MoreFire Safety Training for Staff
Without doubt the most common kind of questions we get asked are around the issue of whether a business needs to provide fire safety training for staff. The short answer is ‘yes’. You must ensure that all employees are aware of fire safety and that will usually mean training. The law is very clear about…
Read MoreSmall Businesses: A Guide to Fire Safety
When you are starting a new business venture you will pulled in all directions at once. But one thing you must not forget is fire safety. 65% of businesses never recover from a fire so one small, simple oversight, and without the proper precautions or knowledge of how to react, your livelihood could, quite literally,…
Read MoreFire Safety: Working from Home
It may seem obvious, but fire safety when working from home is a consideration that more and more people are taking on with the ever-growing trend. Here, we look at the most important aspect to consider when protecting yourself from a fire when working remotely – the smoke detector. Just how important do you think…
Read MoreFire Safety Signs in the Workplace
There are many fire safety signs in the workplace we are being asked to adhere to; ‘Keep 2 Metres’ apart being the major one at the moment. But signs can become so familiar that we forget they are there! Look around your office building, the supermarket, indeed virtually any indoor space and you’ll see signs…
Read MoreWhat is Fire Safety Training?
There are typically two reasons why we take professional training courses: to learn how to deal with a situation that is new to us, or to learn how to prevent a situation from happening. Fire safety training covers elements of both of these things. After all, nobody wants a fire to break out in their…
Read MoreIs Fire Safety Training Mandatory?
In every workplace across the United Kingdom, fire safety training is a good idea. In an ideal world, everyone would take a fire safety course. After all, it’s such an important topic to have a good knowledge of, and it can quite literally save lives. However, if you’re focused more on what training you absolutely…
Read MoreWhat Does a Fire Warden Do?
Fire wardens (also known as fire marshals) are designated persons within your workplace who take on additional responsibility for fire safety. You might even call your fire warden a fire safety officer. We say “additional responsibility” because everyone in your workplace should have a basic understanding of fire safety and should know what to do…
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