Bolton Start Well

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue service are asking you to help them promote Home Fire Safety Assessments, and their referral pathway, to your staff and service users, by taking Seven Simple Steps.

How you can help – seven simple steps 

This toolkit has been developed to encourage partners to support the promotion of the Online Home Fire Safety Check, the Home Fire Safety Assessment process and signpost to the fire safety advice on the GMFRS website. 

GMFRS is asking you, our trusted partner, to help promote Home Fire Safety Assessments and our referral pathway to your staff and service users by taking seven simple steps: 

1. Provide a link to our HFSA webpage on your website 
2. Provide a link to our HFSA partner webpage on your intranet  
3. Promote HFSAs on social media as widely as possible, across all relevant channels  
4. Distribute our HFSA promotional leaflets and display our posters 
5. Attend our HFSA training and encourage your colleagues to attend 
6. Include fire safety in your service user assessments 
7. Sign up to our Home Fire Safety Partnership Newsletter and encourage your colleagues to sign up

To support HFSA a new Online Home Fire Safety Check (OHFSC) tool is available, which households can use to help identify fire hazards in their home. The tool also suggests changes that can be easily made to reduce the risk of a fire.  

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue also provide a range of fire safety leaflets, posters, booklets etc. that you can download for distribution to the people you work with: Fire Safety Literature - Greater Manchester Fire Rescue Service.  Advice about candle, alcohol and barbacue usage, as well as general safety advice is available via the link.