Safer Care Service for health and care premises

Our Safer Care Service is an initiative designed and developed by Kent Fire and Rescue Service with the aims of reducing risk in health and care premises and keeping such businesses safe and resilient.

As part of the initiative we will be offering seminars for responsible persons and owners of health and care premises – learn more below.

Fire safety and your health and care premises

The growth in the care home sector has been achieved partly through the conversion and extension of existing buildings, some of which are centuries old but still provide comfortable and attractive accommodation for residents. These conversions and extensions should be subject to appropriate building control approval, which should provide an appropriate fire safety standard.

Good management of fire safety in the care and nursing home sector is essential to

• reduce the risk of a fire occurring
• if there is a fire, having appropriate building control standards in place will ensure that incidents are controlled or contained quickly, effectively and safely
• if a fire does occur and grows, staff must be able to ensure that everyone in the premises is able to evacuate and escape to safety easily and quickly or remain in a place of relative safety