Fire safety tips for apartment residents:

• Be familiar with your building’s fire safety measures.
• Find out where the FIRE EXTINGUISHERS are and how to use them.
• Ensure your SMOKE ALARMS are working correctly.
• Your doors, walls and, sometimes, ceilings are designed to stop fire and smoke spread so do NOT DRILL HOLES into them or make any other alterations without consulting a fire protection professional.
• If you see a fire or hear a fire alarm, follow the evacuation route and procedures.
• Your apartment door is a fire safety door, it needs to be CLOSED to contain the fire.
• Any door you see in the building that says FIRE DOOR must be kept CLOSED.
• Do NOT open doors to let smoke out.
• Do NOT use the lift.
• If you are unable to use the stairs, wait on the landing in the fire-isolated stairs to be rescued by fire officers.

Fire safety tips for body corporates:

• Educate yourself on your building.
• Your building’s fire safety measures will have a maintenance schedule that must be adhered to, but you should also be aware of any maintenance issues.
• Check that all the exit signs and emergency lighting working
• Ensure evacuation routes and fire doors clear of obstructions
• In NSW, a fire safety statement confirms that an accredited practitioner has assessed, inspected and verified the performance of each fire safety measure that applies to the building.
• In QLD, an Occupier Statement must be submitted annually to ensure safety installations in the building are compliant.
• If you can, provide an induction and training to occupants regularly on building fire safety.

Fire safety training and building fire safety awareness are required to ensure occupant safety. What is the point of having firefighting equipment if no one is able to use it?