Fire Safety Tips for Tenants

We take Fire Safety and our responsibilities to tenants very seriously.

We provide smoke alarms in all properties and in the common areas of our flats. 

We carry out regular inspections of the common areas of flats to check that there are no fire safety hazards and doors and fire safety equipment are in good working order. 

We ask all our tenants to help prevent fire and keep escape routes clear with the following measures: 

Play Your Part

• Keep all exits and access ways clear and unobstructed with push chairs, bicycles, furniture, rubbish etc
• Check your smoke alarms regularly and report any faults to us without delay 
• Don’t cover or remove your smoke alarms or ‘borrow’ the battery
• Keep fire doors closed
• Don’t dry clothes in front of a gas or electric fire
• Don’t overload electrical sockets with adaptors
• Don’t store things in meter cupboards
• Don’t paint or varnish fires, boilers, electrical switches and sockets
• If you smoke, be extra careful
• Keep any candles well away from curtains or blinds
• Don’t leave chip pans unattended

Useful links

• West Midlands Fire Service