** Fire Safety Tips for the Workplace **

Fire Safety Tips for the Workplace

No matter type of business you conduct at your workplace, fire safety should always be a main concern. Here are a few fire safety tips you can distribute to your staff.
Fire Prevention

• Keep your work area free of waste paper, trash and other items that can easily catch fire.
• Check on your electrical cords. If a cord is damaged in any way, replace it. Try not to lay cords in places where they can be stepped on, as this will contribute to deterioration of the protective outside coating.
• Don't overload your circuits. 
• Turn off electrical appliances at the end of each day. 
• Keep heat producing equipment away from anything that might burn. This includes copiers, coffee makers, computers, etc.

In the Event of a Fire

• Upon finding a fire, call 999 immediately and don't hand up with the emergency responder until told to do so.
• Close doors when exiting to help limit the spread of smoke and fire throughout the building.
• Never use elevators during an evacuation.
• Follow the escape plan and meet at a per-determined place outside of your building and away from danger. Conduct a headcount to ensure all of your staff has evacuated.

The best way to ensure the safety of your staff is through fire prevention and training. Talk with your staff about fire safety in the workplace.

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from Mr K Patel, Fire Protection Engineer, Appex fire safety solutions.

** Focus on Fire Prevention **

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Top 10 tips to make your home a safe home

**Top 10 tips to make your home a safe home**

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1.    Fit a smoke alarm and check it regularly.

2.    Make a fire action plan so that everyone in your house knows how to escape in the event of fire.

3.    Take care when cooking with hot oil and think about using thermostatically controlled deep fat fryers.

4.    Never leave lit candles unattended.

5.    Ensure cigarettes are stubbed out and disposed of carefully.

6.    Never smoke in bed.

7.    Keep matches and lighters away from children.

8.    Keep clothing away from heating appliances.

9.    Take care in the kitchen! Accidents whilst cooking account for 59% of fires in the home.

10. Take special care when you are tired or when you've been drinking. Half of all deaths in domestic fires happen between 10pm and 8am.

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By K Patel, contact@appexfiresafety.co.uk

source: http://www.hantsfire.gov.uk/top10tips

**Fire Safety Tips of day** 30th jan 2013

Fire safety tips 

Make sure all family members know what to do in the event of a fire. Draw a floor plan with at least two ways of escaping every room. Make a drawing for each floor. Dimensions do not need to be correct. Make sure the plan shows important details: stairs, hallways and windows that can be used as fire escape routes.

Test windows and doors—do they open easy enough? Are they wide enough. Or tall enough?

Choose a safe meeting place outside the house.

Practice alerting other members. It is a good idea to keep a bell and flashlight in each bedroom.

by Appex Fire Safety Solutions
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Betting shop damaged by electrical fire

Betting shop damaged by electrical fire

29 Jan 2014

A betting shop in Whitton has been ravaged by a fire.

The William Hill shop on Whitton high street, Richmond upon Thames, was left gutted after an electrical fire started, according to the Richmond and Twickenham Times. 

Crews from Twickenham, Feltham, Richmond and Heathrow arrived at the scene to tackle the blaze, with five engines and over 25 firefighters. The police and London Ambulance Service were also in attendance.

The blaze started at approximately 13:00 GMT yesterday (January 28th) and the crews worked for more than an hour to extinguish it. Nobody was injured but three people - who were in the shop at the time - had to flee, including the assistant manager Mohammed Hassan. Mr Hassan smelt burning and evacuated the shop, before calling the fire brigade. 

Lisa Hicks, station manager at Richmond fire station, said: "It was a severe fire when we arrived - there have been no injuries and the investigation has now started."

Police inspector Simon Young happened to be driving down the high street as the blaze broke out. 

"We ran round to the back of the property in order to go up to the flat to make sure nobody was in danger.

"When we were satisfied that was the case we assisted by putting roadblocks in place," he said.

Anish Gola, assistant manager at the neighbouring shop Your Move, said the smoke became darker and darker, while one of the firefighters knocked some of the windows through to check if anyone was inside. 

He added that a crowd of people stood outside, watching the crews at work. 

A William Hill spokesman was quoted as saying it would be a "considerable amount of time" before the shop opens again. In the meantime, staff would be relocated to other branches.

He added the flat above the shop had also been gutted as a result of the electrical fire. 

Commercial buildings, non-domestic and multi-occupancy premises in England and Wales are already forced to undertake a 'suitable and sufficient' fire risk assessment carried out under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

While the overwhelming majority of premises do this, if the assessment is thought to have been carried out to an insufficient extent, the Responsible Person can face an unlimited fine or up to two years in prison.

Posted by Kat Schabowska

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BFC reinforces importance of Fire Safety Regulations

By Paul Farley Jan 29, 2014

The British Furniture Confederation (BFC) has announced that it welcomes facing the issues highlighted by the recent Fake Britain television programme, which showed that sofas and mattresses which do not comply with the UK’s strict flammability regulations are on sale in the UK, even through major retailers.

The members of the BFC are fully committed to supporting the fire safety regulations, and have been actively campaigning for more resources to aid more rigorous enforcement by Trading Standards.

The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations were introduced in 1988 to improve safety in the home and since then, the number of deaths from fires in the home in the UK has decreased steadily. There were 62,609 house fires in the UK in 1985 with 700 deaths. Figures for England for 2012 state there were a total of 35,390 fires in the home and 213 deaths. Between 1988 and 2002, a Government-commissioned report estimated that the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations have played a direct role in saving 1150 lives and preventing 13,442 injuries.

The BFC is also actively involved in the current proposed revision of the Regulations being carried out by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The BFC is working to ensure any revisions will not weaken the current regulations, which would be detrimental to UK consumer safety. The aim is to make the regulations easier to understand and meet, thereby hopefully reducing the amount of non-compliant furniture making its way onto the market.

To ensure safety, the BFC recommends that consumers buy furniture produced by a member of recognised trade associations committed to high standards, such as BFC members, the British Furniture Manufacturers Association (BFM), the National Bed Federation (NBF), Leisure and Outdoor Furniture Association (LOFA) and British Contract Furnishings Association (BCFA). In addition consumers should select product that has been tested for compliance by independent testing laboratories such as FIRA International.

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