Fire Safety Plan

Teaching your children how important a fire safety plan is, could save their lives. Fire safety is the key to helping people deal with fire, can help to save lives.

Young children should also be involved in understanding what fire safety means and what you need to do to protect yourself and your family. A fire safety plan can be part of how you teach your children about the dangers of fire and what you must do to escape if a fire starts in your home.

Making a fire safety plan with your children is a great way to introduce them to the dangers of fire. Understanding what they need to think about and the actions they need to take is difficult for any child; younger children still need to know what to do, even if they don’t fully understand why. While the subject is serious, it is also important to make the learning fun so they are able to justify the message that you are giving them with the ability to understand the information and to act.

Your Essential Fire Safety Plan

• Talk through the escape routes that you have created for your home and how to get to safety.
• Make sure you have installed fire and smoke alarms and it is essential you make sure they are working. Replace the batteries yearly and replace the detector as per the manufacturer’s recommendation.
• Teach your children the right way to call for help. Teaching them about calling the emergency services when and only when there is an emergency is important.
• Practice your fire safety plan regularly; this will make it easier for your children to remember in case of a fire.

Having The Right Fire Safety Equipment

It is important that you have the right equipment and knowing how to use it properly is the key. You shouldn’t think that having a fire extinguisher is going to put out all fires, they’re designed for different type of fires and using one for an incorrect fire can cause the fire to get worse. It is important that any fire safety protocols are in place in your home to allow you to escape and not to tackle the problem yourself.

Don’t give yourself a false sense of security in thinking that you will be fine just by owning a fire extinguisher, fire is dangerous and can easily kill, it is important that you get out of your home if there is a fire and let the professionals deal with the fire. Your family will need you too.

Sharing Your Fire Safety plan

If you or your family have friends over to sleep, then it is just as important to go through your fire safety plan with them. It might seem an odd thing to do when a group of excited kids are over for a sleep over, but how would you tell their parents if they died in a fire in your home?

It is therefore vital, that you make sure your guests and visitors are safe when they are staying in your home. You might feel that it is something that will never happen, but fires do start and protecting all the people who live or stay in your home is important.

Therefore, if you haven’t created your fire safety plan then you should consider making it a priority to ensure your family are safe when they are at home. Practicing the fire safety plan teaches young child what to do without having to understand what it means for your home to be on fire, it could save their lives.