Universities failing to protect students

 

Students kept in the dark about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning

Britain's universities are failing in their duty to protect students from the dangers of fire and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning according to a survey of over 1,000 students.

The laissez faire attitude of many higher education establishments when it comes to advising students about safety procedures is putting lives at risk.

Less than a third of students have received even the most basic fire safety information from their university despite one in eight knowing someone who had been involved in a domestic fire.

Over half feel at risk from a fire in their term time accommodation.

Only 6% have received any advice on the dangers of CO poisoning and only one in ten have had an audible carbon monoxide alarm fitted even though incidences of deaths from the silent killers are higher among student populations.

The government have produced a free fire safety guide to home fire safety you can down load this free from our web site www.pscfiresafety.com may I suggest if you have or know a student attending University please email them and tell them to down load the PDF guide and at least read it, I think it is a valuable tool and there are lots of sensible advice that will reduce remove or replace the fire risk they may come across.

I have been asked by some contacts about this subject before, it would be great if we got every student to down load this guide www.pscfiresafety.com  I would sleep happier so come on take action now go to our home page www.pscfiresafety.com  scroll down to the bottom give us your details and it will link to the free PDf government guide to home fire safety.

If you would like to comment on this report or any have any other questions please email paul@pscfiresafety.com we would be more than happy to solve the problem or get an answer to you.

 

And remember push the button not your luck!!! Wake up get a smoke alarm!!!!

 

Paul Coughlan

PSC