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Equipment For Fire Marshals and Fire Wardens
In every business and public building you need to have designated fire marshals and fire wardens who are members of staff or volunteers who have received the correct training. It means they’re able to...
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Light Up Your Home Safely This Christmas
You know it’s getting close to Christmas when your local DIY superstore or garden centre is flashing, pulsing, rippling or just plain glowing with their annual Christmas lights display. Sadly, the...
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How to Create Your Home Fire Safety Plan
An easy way to protect you and your family from a fire in your home is for you create your own fire safety plan. A home fire safety plan is not a legal requirement, but it is a very useful way to...
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How Does A Fire Blanket Work?
Most homes and businesses will have a fire extinguisher to hand to put out fires. While these are useful, sometimes you need to smother a fire and starve it of oxygen to prevent it from spreading....
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How To Stop Your Carbon Monoxide Alarm Going Off
Carbon monoxide, commonly known as the chemical formula CO, is an extremely poisonous gas. It has no odour or colour, which means we are unable to detect it through our senses. It is estimated that CO...
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Is Fire Rated Foam Board Right For Your Project?
Fire rated foam board is a high density, mineral fibre board that’s coated on both sides with intumescent mastic for hours of protection against fire. It can also be referred to as fire batt. The...
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Where Can You Find A Fire Log Book Template?
A fire log book is used to document a building’s fire safety procedures and its equipment. British fire regulations require a fire safety log book to be in every building, and templates can be...
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How to Find a Quality Fire Extinguisher Service Engineer
Fire extinguisher service engineers are qualified technicians who service all types of extinguishers according to standard British regulations. An annual visit from one of these technicians is...
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How To Install Smoke Seals On Fire Doors
Learning how to install smoke seals on fire doors can help to save lives, as well as preventing extensive fire damage to your property. The purpose of a fire door is to stop a fire in its tracks. This...
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3 Ways To Use A Fire Blanket
The following fire blanket information explains the simplest (and often most effective) methods of dealing with small fires. Fire blankets are nothing more than blankets which are manufactured using...
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10 Tips for Surviving Fires at Home
You and your family should have a strategy to get out of the house if a fire does occur. Create an evacuation plan and ensure that every person in the house understands that plan. Should anyone in...
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A Simple Fire Risk Assessment Example You Can Use Today
If you have no idea where to start with a fire risk assessment, how often it needs to be done or what should be included don’t panic – read on and all will be revealed. This simple fire risk...
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Your Guide To The Kidde Slick Wireless Smoke Alarm System
So you need to have a series of smoke alarms and have those all connected to each other. Maybe you’re a landlord ensuring the safety of your tenants and don’t want the hassle of putting in a wired...
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How To Find The Best Automatic Fire Extinguisher Price
We all like to get a good deal when we buy something. So just like any product, when buying an automatic fire extinguisher, price is important. The internet means we can go hunting for the best price...
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How Do Powder Fire Extinguishers Work?
Have you ever wondered how your powder fire extinguisher actually works? You know how to work it (hopefully), but you’ve not really given much thought to how and why it works. We just put our trust in...
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How Do I Stop My Kidde Smoke Alarms Going Off All The Time?
Kidde smoke alarms are some of the best in the world, but sometimes, smoke alarms can go off even if there isn’t a fire. So: “How do I stop my Kidde Smoke Alarms going off all the time?” Smoke alarms...
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How Do I Find The Best Intumescent Fire Pillows Price?
There are various places where you can purchase fire pillows but only so many places where you can find the best intumescent fire pillows price. Remember that you are buying something for your safety...
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Should I Buy A Whole Welding Blanket Roll?
A welding blanket is used to protect things from sparks and welding splatter. They come in various types of fire-resistant material. One thing people often ask in this situation is “should I buy a...
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How To Protect Your Extinguishers From The Elements
Fires don’t care what the weather is like, and will happily burn regardless. That’s why you need to ensure your fire safety equipment will also work whatever the weather. There are steps you can take...
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How To Choose The Best Baby First Aid Kit
There’s nothing like the arms of a parent to help make your child feel better when they get hurt. Accidents happen, and young children have a unique talent for getting hurt. Sometimes though, a warm...
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How To Find The Best Intumescent Door Seal Price
When you’re looking to buy intumescent door seals, you’ll want to get the best price possible. It doesn’t matter whether you’re shopping for yourself or on behalf of where you work, the price is...
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Do You Know How To Use A Fire Extinguisher Properly?
It takes calm and courage to fight a fire. But before you use a fire extinguisher, be certain that you know how to operate one. Don’t just leave it standing in the corner until you need it. Take the...
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How To Install An Intumescent Pipe Collar
Pipework is a common way for fire and smoke to spread, even if it is going through a fire resisting wall, floor or ceiling. Plastic piping will easily soften and collapse in the heat of a fire. This...
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How To Spot Fake Electrical Equipment
Just about everything can be, and is, counterfeited these days. And I’m not just talking about knockoff handbags, pirated DVDs, fake money and bootleg toys. Lots of electrical goods are faked, sold...
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The Guide To Treating Burns And Scalds
Burns and scalds are when skin gets damaged by heat. Generally, you can treat them both in the same way. A burn is the result of the skin coming into close contact with a source of dry heat, such as a...
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Choosing A First Aid Kit For Your Home
Minor accidents are common around the home, and while they don’t all need professional medical treatment, they can sometimes require medical supplies you’ll find in your home fire aid kit. Even the...
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How To Stay Safe on Bonfire Night
Not only should you remember the 5th of November, but you must also make sure you stay safe whatever you find yourself doing this bonfire night. Whether you’re planning a little get-together with...
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Do You Have A Carbon Monoxide Alarm In Your Office?
When the temperatures go down, and the heating goes up, the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning at work also goes up. Known as the silent killer, it could cause illness throughout the workplace without...
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Can You Rely On Your CO Alarm?
We’re always looking to get a great deal, and internet shopping makes it all too easy to get something cheaper. However, how can you be sure that what you’re paying for is the real thing?...
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Which Hard Hat Do I Need?
Where there is a serious risk of receiving a head injury from a falling or flying object at your place of work, a hard hat is essential for head protection. There is a wide range available, and the...
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Protecting Your Hands with Work Gloves
Work gloves are essential for protecting our hands, as well as being a tool for helping us to be more efficient. Whether you’re working on site, in the laboratory, cleaning the toilets, handling food,...
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Which Safety Shoes Are Best For Me?
Choosing the correct safety shoes is essential. However, with a wide range of choice available, and a variety of safety features to choose from, it can be a difficult task. After all, picking ordinary...
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Safety Masks To Help You Breathe Easy
Whether you’re working in a potentially hazardous environment or carrying out work which produces fine dusts or vapour, you’ll want to make sure you have suitable safety masks. But it isn’t as simple...
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Choosing the Right Ear Plugs to Protect Your Hearing
When you’re working in noisy environments, or even if you’re just looking for some peace and quiet, then ear plugs and ear muffs are exactly what you need. It’s important to protect your hearing as...
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Safety Glasses To Help You See Clearly
Safety glasses are essential for protecting your vision. Even when you get something silly in your eye, such as an eyelash, it can prove to be irritating and distracting, so imagine if something more...
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Workplace First Aid: What Do You Need?
Anyone can suffer injuries or be taken ill at any time, which is why workplace first aid is so important. It may be an employee, a customer, a visitor or simply someone passing by; it is important to...
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The Complete Guide to PPE
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protects you, or your workers, from a whole range of different risks which are present when working on construction sites. However, they’re also a requirement in...
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Convex Mirrors: See What’s Around The Corner
Convex mirrors are useful for a variety of different locations. Traffic mirrors are often found opposite driveways. In warehouses and construction sites, industrial mirrors are located in areas where...
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What Fire Extinguisher to Use
There are 5 main types of fire extinguisher, with each one of them serving the purpose of putting out different types of fire. Therefore, it can be said that choosing what fire extinguisher to use is...
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How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
It is said that when a fire is started, it has the potential to double in size every 60 seconds. So, acting fast is something that you will most definitely need to do. But, knowing how to use a fire...
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Defibrillators: A Real Life Saver
Once something you’d only see in a hospital if you were unlucky, defibrillators are now widely available within the community and are so simple to use that you don’t need to have first aid training to...
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Choosing Traffic Cones and Temporary Barriers
Whether you’re looking for traffic cones to use on a public highway or need to create a temporary barrier to prevent unauthorised access, you need an easy option. These need to be efficient to store...
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The Complete Guide to Cut Resistant Gloves
It is safe to say that ensuring maximum cut protection should be high up on your priority list now that the EN388:2016 standards are in place. But, with so much choice out there on the market, you...
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Watch Your Step With Anti-Fatigue Mats
When you’re working on your feet all day long—particularly on hard-floor surfaces—anti-fatigue mats reduce the stress on your legs and feet to prevent the aches, pains and discomfort that it often...
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Do You Require A Spill Kit?
Essential in many workplaces, especially those storing and handling hazardous or large amounts of liquid, having a spill kit on site will prepare you for any emergency. These facilitate easy and...
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Fall Protection: The Guide to Working at Height
It’s safe to say that before considering working at height, you should always follow the necessary steps to safeguard your workers. But, just how exactly do you do this? Well, you’ll find that the...
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The Quick Guide to Knee Protection
Suitable knee protection is essential for those working on their knees all day long, or even just for the occasional job, as they provide comfort and prevent injury. Wearing knee pads will relieve the...
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How to Prevent False Alarms
As well as being a massive inconvenience for those being evacuated, false alarms also cause ‘alarm fatigue’ which can have a dangerous effect. Often accidentally caused by someone simply burning the...
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Emergency Worker Identification Tags
Especially when working on a large site, you need an easy way of identifying workers and their needs quickly—especially in an emergency—and worker identification tags are the most effective way of...
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Summer PPE Perfect For The Heat
When the weather outside is roasting, all you want to do is strip off and enjoy a cool breeze, but when you’re working on site that just isn’t possible, so you need to ensure you have summer PPE. It’s...
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