Health & Safety

General

This guidance issued by HSC is intended to help those responsible for providing care.

Health and Safety in Care Homes

Domiciliary care provided in people’s own homes

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Fire Safety

Advice for Care Homes and Supported Living

If you’re responsible for a building, it’s important to do all you can to reduce the risk of fire to keep people safe. It saves lives, it’s your legal duty, and it makes good business sense.

1) Advise for residential care homes

2) Fire Risk Assessment

Advice for Homecare

Are you a formal or informal carer, support worker or someone who visits, works or lives with a vulnerable person in their own home? The LFB ‘Carers Guide to Home Fire Safety’ video will help you identify fire risks and show you what you can do to reduce them.

1) Carers guide to home fire safety

2) Checklist for Person-Centred Fire Risk template

General Advice for the responsible person

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/safety/the-workplace/fire-safety-law-explained/

Fire Prevention and Safeguarding Toolkit, developed to support all professionals working with families, children and residents in understanding how to prevent fatal or serious fire-related incidents in the home.

This toolkit includes:

• A free e-learning course on fire prevention and safeguarding
• Bite Size training modules
• Practical learning resources for professionals, families, and children.

Encourage everyone to complete this training (particularly frontline members and managers). 

Managers, share this e-learning at your team and service meetings and encourage all staff to complete it. 

Visit the Toolkit here:
https://www.firepreventiontoolkit.org.uk

Access the free e-learning directly:
https://www.virtual-college.co.uk/resources/free-courses/fire-prevention-and-safeguarding-training-course

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Falls from windows and balconies

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hsis5.pdf

https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/learning-safety-incidents/issue-7-falls-windows

Page last updated on July 30th, 2025 at 12:05pm