Safety in the home advice
Below are ways you can make your home safer:
- Fit smoke alarms and test them regularly
- Never leave cooking unattended
- Plan and practise your escape route
- Switch off appliances before going to bed – including your cooker
- Close all internal doors to prevent a fire from spreading
- Share your safety plans with family and friends and look out for the elderly
Take a look at the links on the right for more information about various aspects of safety in the home.
Key information in many major languages can be found below and can be downloaded and printed.
Downloads
- Multi Language - Fire Safety Russia Brazil Poland (492 KB)
- Multi Language - Fire Safety Ukraine Portugal Bulgaria (619 KB)
- Multi Language - Learn your address Polish (451 KB)
- Multi Language - Learn your address Ukraine Portugal Bulgaria (500 KB)
- Multi Language - Learn your address Russia Brazil Poland (485 KB)
- Arabic - fire safety in the home (1 MB)
- Bengali - fire safety in the home (926 KB)
- Bulgarian - fire safety in the home (1 MB)
- Chinese - fire safety in the home (568 KB)
- French - la securite incendie a la maison (2 MB)
- Hungarian - tuzvedelem otthon (896 KB)
- Latvian - ugunsdrosiba jusu majas (489 KB)
- Lithuanian - priesgaisrine sauga namuose (859 KB)
- Polish - bezpieczenstwo pozarowe w domu (1 MB)
- Portuguese - seguranca contra incendios em casa (2 MB)
- Punjabi - fire safety in the home (865 KB)
- Romanian - masuri de siguranta contra incendiilor in locuinta (473 KB)
- Slovak - protipoziarna bezpecnost v domove (840 KB)
- Spanish - seguridad contra incendios en el hogar (2 MB)
- Tamil - fire safety in the home (7 MB)
- Urdu - fire safety in the home (1 MB)