Leisure Activities

General Safety Advice and links to other safety sites

Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service is committed to making communities within Gloucestershire safer. This means not only dealing with emergency incidents, but providing free fire safety advice and also providing access to other safety information to keep you and your loved ones safe.

Wherever possible, we also work closely with other agencies and volunteer groups in partnerships which aim to bring together expertise which will ensure vulnerable groups and those who are at risk are targetted effectively and are kept from harm wherever possible.

The following links will not only give access to fire safety information within this website but also to numerous other sites providing essential and valuable information on protecting your family or your business.

If after viewing the links you cannot find the information you are looking for, please feel free to email us: GFRS Fire Safety Team and we will endeavour to include additional links from our site to meet your needs.

Links

Floating Sky Lanterns
Extreme caution should be exercised when using such a product
The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) have issued advice on these potentially dangerous items. The General Product Safety Regulations place a general duty on all suppliers/producers of consumer goods to supply products that are safe in normal or reasonably foreseeable use, which includes providing consumers with appropriate warnings and instructions for use (list ingredients, sell by dates, child warnings, instructions etc. in the language of the market). Guidance on the regulations can be found on the BERR website.

Water Safety
For articles on beach safety, pool safety, home safety (washing machines, bathrooms, garden and pond safety), boat safety and Winter safety (ice).

Safety Near Power Lines
Basic safety advice for leisure activities near to overhead power lines.

Disclaimer
Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service takes care to ensure that most links from this Website are to reputable organisations and that therefore the information contained will be current and reliable. However, Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service cannot be held responsible for the accuracy or omissions from pages on such linked Websites. The existence of such links does not represent an endorsement by Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service of any views expressed or products or services offered.