- Title:
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Improving the Fire Safety Knowledge and Practices of Vulnerable Groups
- Date:
- June 2000
- Organisations
- NZFS
- Authors:
- Anna Chalmers
- Location:
- New Zealand, New Zealand
Overview
Improving the Fire Safety Knowledge & Practices of Vulnerable Groups reports on the first year of NZCER's project. It brings together data collected and analysed to further understand vulnerable groups and their fire safety needs.
The literature review reveals that psychological disabilities of people in vulnerable groups, physical disabilities (particularly of older people), cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, unattended cooking, and the absence of smoke alarms are factors often involved in fire fatalities, as is pre-school children playing with cigarette lighters. Effective fire prevention and fire response education works best if it is community-based, continuous, and uses a range of strategies.
