Posted By MetalMan I have been asked by a co worker to raise this question on this board. His wife works for the Fire and Rescue service and is an administration worker in one of the stations. As part of the big push that is on at the moment to carry out home fire safety visits more and more non forefighting staff are being asked to carry out these visits. While I am not aware of the precise details of the visits I am aware that these can be booked over the phone with the fire and rescue service. The person nominated then visits the person at home to carry out these visits. The concerns my co worker has are that there does not seem to be any systems in place for ensuring the safety of the staff who go out, many of who are women. There is no system to check whether the person requesting the visit is a genuine person or otherwise, there is no system of calling in on arrival or calling in on completion of the visit at all. There is no set time for the visit so no way for the main office to know when a preson is overdue, there also does not seem to be any contingency plan that in the event of a person carrying out one of these visits not returning to the main office, or going missing. My co worker did ask me whether I thought he was over reacting, I thought for a minute and came to the conclusion that I would not want my wife walking into a total strangers house with no knowledge of who they were, how many people where in the house etc. To sum it up I said to him "If your wife was walking down a street and somebody she did not know opened their front door and asked her to come in, would you consider it safe for her to do so?" I have serious concerns about this! can anyone help?

Posted By Crim Hi MetalMan, email sent- hope it helps.

Posted By TBC Agree with all above cover your bases and put in safe practices.

Posted By MetalMan Thanks all for the replies so far.

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