Fire Safety

This course is grounded directly in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which places a legal duty on the “responsible person” for any premises, including a children’s home, to identify fire hazards, assess the risk, and implement genuinely appropriate fire safety measures.

Fire safety in a children’s home carries particular, genuine weight: the people you are responsible for evacuating are children and young people, some with their own additional vulnerabilities, sleeping overnight in the building, at exactly the time of day evacuation is genuinely hardest to achieve safely and quickly. Written for registered managers and residential care staff, this course covers across eighteen lessons the legal framework, fire risk assessment, fire prevention, detection and alarm systems, fire doors and means of escape, firefighting equipment, day-time and night-time evacuation procedures, Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs), fire drills, responding sensitively to a history of fire-setting behaviour, smoking and other specific ignition risks, working with the fire and rescue service, record-keeping, what to do in a real fire, and keeping training current.