The New Year's Eve Fire in Switzerland set me researching safety for my own home and buildings I manage, events I manage at club meetings, and places I visit. Toastmasters Clubs worldwide, mostly, although not always, follow the American and British protocol of the Toastmasters of the day starting the meeting by indicating the fire exits to use if we hear a fire alarm.
If you rent out a flat in the UK to one person or more, you need both gas and electric inspections for safety every year, for which the owner has to pay, tax deductable from profits.
Cars need an MOT safety test every year.
Every restaurant, bar and night club should have a safety and fire inspection test.
It's mandatory to have a now wash your hands sign over staff toilet basins. There should be signs saying no cigarettes, naked flames, candles, fireworks, except for cooking under cooker hood with fire blanket and trained person present..
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An article in the website of CROSS draws attention to two or three other safety factors not often mentioned.
1 In discos there is often a lot of noise which can disguise or delay calls for help or evalucatuion, even fire alarms
2 Dim lighting in night clubs or when illuminated firworks are used adds to conusion.
3 Unlike offices, events often take place in premises where patrons do not know the layout or the fire exit and door and exit locations.
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When redecorating, you might wish to think about safety, which includes windows which open from the inside, and knowing how to open them.
I often feel unsafe in shopping malls, and toilets, which are at the ends of corridors, with no windows. And buildings which have solid walls street side. No room for a fire engine. No window to climb out of. Not even a window where you could raise a sign asking for help or show that a person is inside the building.
A restaurant up a flight of steps means that your emergency exit is a place which looks like people will fall in haste or fall over each other, and collide with would be rescuers..
A spiral staircase to a basement is not ideal for a fast exit.
If I don't see a fire exit. I try to sit near a door, away from the kitchen.
Useful Websites
SAFETY
https://www.cross-safety.org/uk/safety-information/cross-feature-article/fires-nightclubs-started-pyrotechnics
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+bengal+lights
WORLDWIDE FIRES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fireworks_accidents_and_incidents
SWISS FIRE
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/switzerland-swiss-bar-fire-owner-6z2nnv6fq
VIDEO
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=mail+swiss+fire&type=E210GB885G0#id=3&vid=222bbd08dee9ddf4b2bab9916fa98119&action=click
Victims of Swiss Fire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vel0xvlvgo
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/swiss-ski-resort-fire-every-36490994
Update on Swiss fire on New Year's Eve
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/switzerland-swiss-bar-fire-owner-6z2nnv6fq
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