FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY

Program Description

Fire and life safety involves numerous safety issues including fire prevention, fire suppression, emergency evacuation and response and fire awareness.  EHS/RM is committed to providing a safe environment for building occupants and emergency response personnel.

Policy

Manuals / Publications / Guides

Training

Fire Facts and Basics

Actions you can take to prevent fires and promote fire safety:  

• Always know two ways out.  Whenever you are at home, in your residence hall, a restaurant, a movie, a party, simply note the location of the exits.  
• After a gathering, check the cushions to make certain that there aren't any smoldering cigarettes waiting to break out into a fire during the night  
• Always evacuate for a fire alarm.  Fire spreads quickly, never hesitate to leave.  
• Call 911 from a campus phone, or 229-2121 from a cell phone, to report a fire after you leave the building. 
• Do not disable a smoke alarm - it can not save your life if it can't do its job. 

Additional Information

www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/all_citizens/home_fire_prev/extinguishers.

www.campusfire.org

www.nfpa.org

www.usfa.fema.gov

www.ul.com

www.firepreventionweek.org