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Responsibility for Safety

As a teacher, along with your responsibilities of educating and mentoring the children of today, you play a large role in implementing rules of safety at school. With the right resources you have the ability to prepare your students for a fire emergency at school or at home, and also encourage responsible fire safety behaviors in their daily lives. On college campuses, statistics show that cooking is the leading cause of fire injuries, which suggests at least some of the on-campus dangers, and the steps recommended to prevent them are the same as those at home. Responding to a fire emergency at school requires planning, practice and discipline just like at home.

What Students Need to Know

Regular fire drills are required by many schools and institutions. This simple task can create the opportunity for educators to address the importance of fire safety with their students. Based on recommendations from fire safety experts, these are some ideas you might want to consider for your students:

• Provide them with a fire safety program involving basic responsive action, safety habits and prevention awareness.
• Discuss how to summon emergency assistance in your area.
• Teach everyone how and when to properly use a fire extinguisher.
• Have students make a fire escape plan and use it during scheduled fire drills.

Teachers are in a unique position to reach many children with fire safety and prevention education. HomeHero has selected some online support resources from authoritative fire safety and prevention organizations to help make learning about fire safety easier, more fun and more successful for every child you teach. Consider visiting two or three of these sites, as each will offer additional ideas and items for you to apply to your fire safety curriculum.

• Get More Safety Tips For Teachers & College Students
• Help your students plan an escape from a fire at home
• Basic fire safety and prevention tips for kids
• A library of fire safety activities by age group
• More ideas about educating children on fire safety

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