Residential care home fire safety guide

This guide will provide you with the basic steps that need to be taken to help maintain fire safety standards within a care home. It does not replace a fire risk assessment or formal fire warden training, and a fire professional should be consulted on fire safety issues. Included in this guide is:

• The fire triangle
• General housekeeping
• Typical sources of fuel
• Typical sources of ignition
• Action in the event of fire
• Evacuation strategies
• First aid firefighting

Please be aware that considerable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within this article at the time of publication, however any legislative (or other) changes that come into effect after this may render the information out of date until it is reviewed and updated as part of the FPA’s content review cycle.