training people to conduct domestic home fire safety risk assessments

[kurnal]

A housing association I work for wishes to train its housing support staff to carry out home fire safety checks, identical to those carried out by the fire service. I am aware of the leaflets and information available from DCLG, and have pointed them in that direction but I wondered if there was any training package available based around the publications for purchase or otherwise?

[Dinnertime Dave]

Won't the fire service in the area concerned train them for free? I'm sure that we do.

[kurnal]

yes they will on request but the housing association has 15000 households and that would be too much to ask! the idea is to give the housing offices core skills - what to look for, hazard awareness,  correct advice to give and when to call for specialist help.

[Dinnertime Dave]

Sorry Kurnal, what I meant was the fire service training the staff not doing the HFRC.

[colin todd]

I myself have trained many housing officers for that purpose.

[kurnal]

Thanks DD I will speak to your people, I know who you mean.