Hi, Before trawling the internet, does anybody have any good fire safety training videos that i can include in an induction pack? Or can point me to some that are of good quality and reasonably priced. Thanks in advance

Yea youtube is probably the better place to get and download. I use the Nightclub fire in 2003 (America), plus Bradford city football ground one; i also use a few funny clips (Hitting a WD40 can with a rake, plus others) to end my training. Can't send any from my work otherwise i would have, but Youtube is a good source.

You need to be clear on your learning objectives and what (if any) added value can come from a video. I say this especially around fire, as some of the examples mentioned are very distressing and yet have limited learning value. Don't show something for shock value only. You do not know your audience's personal background. (I learnt this from having someone suddenly depart (in tears) a relatively innocuous showing of an HSE training video of quad bikes on farms). Always wise to pre-prepare audience as to what is going to be shown. The example of the Christmas tree fire is good for showing speed of fire (and smoke) development. There is another well known CCTV recording of a 'small' fire starting in a shop which is studiously ignored until it becomes life-threatening. Again - learning point on how people typically behave. Sorry don't know title. These are the only ones I would consider for fire safety training - and even then, only in context. For induction? Wouldn't have thought appropriate, but I guess it depends on organisational risk and content.

People will react in fire situations differently in spite of their training. I was in a hotel two years ago when the fire alarm operated during the evening entertainment in the ballroom. I got up to leave but the DJ announced for everyone to wait until he found out what was going on. I was the only one to leave the ballroom and my wife who was on the first floor was the only one to react correctly with our daughter by leaving the room to evacuate using the stairs. I am sure that if the DJ had told everyone to evacuate they all would have done so.

There is another DVD out there somewhere and it is based abour the behaiours and reaction and it is people supposedly attending interview and being told not to move the fire alarm goes off and they sit and continue sitting even when the smoke starts coming under the door. There is also one in a shop when clothes go on fire no-one seems interested and even come into the shi=op one person actually picks something up right by the fire. I am quite sure someone on here knows the titles, or maybe I dreamt them!

No there is another one out there somewhere! I gather someone just sent me the other one 'Human behaviour during a fire alarm, it's on utube. Well I hope they have because it has just come on wothout prompting from me I wasn't even on utube.