would you be happy for your child to go to school with no working fire alarm?

moomoomama27

No way! Heating etc a bit unfortunate but they are old enough to cope, no fire bell is another matter! At my children school a very small fire started in the toilets without a bell it would have spread very quickly, by the time a teacher etc would have noticed, because of the position of the fire, all the downstairs main entrances would have been blocked off! So no way!

rachbc

I wouldn't. But then my son's school burnt down due to an electric fault not arson or a lab accident so I might be more inclined to be cautious than those saying the risk of a fire is minimal. Incidentaly the fire happended in a newly built part of the school - so if the reason there are problems is because of building work I would be even more cautious

Lotus-eater

Interesting that people would generally not send their kids to school without a fire alarm, but most people on the thread about kids going swimming by themselves, the swimming pool was generally blasted as H&S gone mad (again) for not allowing it.

Yet the risk of a child drowning, must be many many times the possibility of a fire in the school and someone dying.

I find it interesting. I bet had the OP posted how ridiculous it was the school was closing without a fire alarm for the day, it would be H&S gone mad again.

sassyblue

MX5huggy wrote: »

How big is the school? if it was fairly small and all on the ground floor I would be less concerned. On the other hand if it was 1000+ in a multi story building I would have my child home double quick.

This ^^^^

I wouldn't even be happy sending mine without the heating on as it's freezing, can't be fun to have to sit in coats in the cold all day.

Mind you we live on the North Sea coast where it can be bitterly cold.

BillTrac

I thought that as a school is classed as a public building, then it MUST have a working fire alarm system

Mojisola

Is this a fire sensor or the kind of "break the glass in case of fire" alarm?

Acc72

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

We have recently had our company's H&S bloke round our office and he kicked up a big fuss that there was no fire alarm on site and the landlord is having to put one in.

In the time between the H&S bloke "kicking up a fuss" and the landlord actually fitting a fire alarm did you stay off work ?

MX5huggy

Mojisola wrote: »

Is this a fire sensor or the kind of "break the glass in case of fire" alarm?

Any modern system should have both.

Mojisola

MX5huggy wrote: »

Any modern system should have both.

I wouldn't be be too worried if it was just the "break glass" type because that's to spread the message and other arrangements can be made to spread news of a fire.

Do all schools have to have sensors now?