I was worried that we were going round in circles.......
I've already said my knowledge of care homes is limited. Shops that provide fire extinguishers don't insist upon training before letting customers in, in fact most only train about 10% of staff. But everyone is arguing (and I don't know who is right) that residents must be trained? Should we halt the sale of fire extinguishers to the public, most of them are untrained?
Providing extinguishers is giving people the choice and that is what I belive in. My own experience of domestic fires (I've been to a few dozen) is that people always got out when it looked nasty, but always had a go in the early stages.
I find it sad that the fear of being sued is a factor here. Has anyone known it to happen? I don't, but there seem to be plenty example where extingiushers save lives and money. Risk assess that.
I thought someone had already said that only staff need to be trained?
Sorry I missed CivyFSO's question (I do have a job other than FireNet
). I can't image my answer, my parents are neither that old or users of chip pans. I would hope they have fire extinguishers in their homes, I would hope they would use them if their home went on fire. I don't consider that either of them needs to be trained to pull out a pin and spray powder.