Five Questions (and YOUR Answers) for anyone interested in Life Safety Education

1)    For readers involved in community’s emergency/disaster planning, do you include individuals providing Life Safety Education in the planning phases? Why, or why not?

2)    Who provides Life Safety Education in your community?

3)    Do you provide details to your Life Safety Educators so that they can provide specific, rather than generic, safety education? For example, specific information on evacuation routes, or shelter in place mandates should a local chemical manufacturer have a haz-mat incident? This also results in standardization of messages/education within a community.

4)    Because of their knowledge of local demographics, and existing rapport within the community, should Life Safety Educators assist Public Information Officers at large scale events? If you do not currently include your educators in emergency planning, would you consider doing so in the future?

5)    Do you foresee logistical hurdles with including Life Safety Educators in the emergency planning process? If so, what concerns do you have?

What do you think? How does your community address life safety issues today? How SHOULD they respond? Give us some answers (and follow up questions) in the comments below!

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About The Author

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Karen A. Facey is a CT Certified Fire Marshal, and works for CT’s largest geographic municipality. Owner of Fire Facts Code Consulting, Karen has her B.S. in Fire Science from the University of New Haven, and M.S. in Administrative Science with concentrations in Emergency Management, and Homeland Security/Terrorism Issues from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Fire Facts Code Consulting provides code public education; fire code consulting; design services for new construction and renovations; pre-inspection to prepare for fire and insurance inspections; and risk assessment, disaster planning, recovery and continuity planning for businesses and governments. Fire Facts can be reached at (203) 733-8380 or by email at firefactsconsulting@gmail.com or Facebook below.

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