Fire Safety Week 2007 - Check your smoke alarm

This year Fire Safety Week runs from 14 – 21 November. Supported by the Fire Protection Association, its activities are arranged and run by fire brigades up and down the country.

The theme for 2007 is Check your smoke alarm. This can be adapted to convey the message you want, for instance, Check your smoke alarm - Check your battery! or Check your smoke alarm - Is it positioned correctly? or Check your smoke alarm - Press the test button every week!

First held in 1975, and run every year since then, Fire Safety Week gives brigades, and other interested organisations, an opportunity to collaborate in addressing the fire safety problems which particularly affect their communities

Local brigades plan a programme of events, usually organised to tackle a different theme of their choosing on each day of the week. There may be days devoted to, for example, fire safety in the kitchen, your escape plan in the event of a fire, or the correct positioning of smoke alarms in the home.

For further information on Fire Safety Week, including promotional literature requests and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Dominic Louks on 10608 812513 email dlouks@thefpa.co.uk

Introduction

The Fire Protection Association is the UK’s national fire safety organisations. It works to identify and draw attention to the dangers of fire and the means by which their potential for loss is kept to a minimum. The FPA is supported by the Association of British Insurers and Lloyd’s.

During Fire Safety Week, the Fire Protection Association (FPA) highlights the true cost of fires in the UK. Fire costs homes and families, jobs, property, environment and mllions of pounds worth of property damage every year. There are however, steps which can be taken to reduce substantially the risk of a fire happening in the first place. The FPA produces a range of promotional literature including checklists and bookmarkers that consider methods on how to minimise fires in home and look at the major causes of fires at work.

Copies of all Fire Safety Week literature is available free from the FPA and from most County Fire Brigade Fire Safety Departments throughout the country. These Fire Safety Departments will be able to provide details of local activities being planned.

Further Information

Fire Protection Association

They are the principle organisers of the event and should have any detailed information you would require.

How to organise a Fire Safety Campaign

There is more information on this site on the above page.