View Poll Results: Which of the following fire prevention measures have you implemented in your shed

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23. You may not vote on this poll
  • Nothing - I haven't even really thought about it.

    1 4.35%
  • I have though about implementing some of these measures but have yet to do so

    0 0%
  • A Fire plan (this means you have thought about and written down the what, when, where and how)

    2 8.70%
  • Provision of adequate escape routes from work areas

    10 43.48%
  • Shed construction and fit out to suit activities( eg, separate areas for wood and metal)

    7 30.43%
  • Regular clean ups and removal of sawdust and flammables

    14 60.87%
  • Safe disposal of oily rages etc

    14 60.87%
  • Smoke or other suitable fire detectors

    7 30.43%
  • Suitably located fire extinguisher (i.e. not in a cupboard or under some stuff)

    18 78.26%
  • Suitably located fire blanket (i.e. not in a drawer or under some stuff)

    7 30.43%
  • Flammable liquids located in closable steel cupboards

    8 34.78%
  • Adequate ventilation of fumes and flammable gasses

    8 34.78%
  • Direct line to Fire Brigade

    0 0%
  • Other - please specify in a follow up post

    0 0%
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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Feb 2006
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    Perth
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    Default Fire safety Poll number 2

    I'm reposting this because there was a problem with the options in the first posting so can you please vote again.

    In 2014 I put up a fire safety poll and I thought it might be interesting to repeat that exercise and then maybe compare the results of the new poll with the 2014 results

    Once again, I'm not suggesting we need to be doing all of the things mentioned on the list but to treat this as a shed fire awareness exercise and if it helps prompt someone to do something about their situation then that makes it a worthwhile exercise.

    So the poll is: Which of the following fire safety measures have you implemented in your shed?
    I have added a category of "safe disposal of oily rags"
    Please note you can check more than one response.
    However, as I have no way of specifically locking these out, so if you check the first OR second response you should not check any of the others

    Please make any further suggestions for categories in follow up posts in this thread.


  2. #2
    Join Date
    Dec 2003
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    lower eyre peninsular
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    75
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    have a fire pump and water trailer parked outside, regularly checked to make sure it will start and pump. Fire brigade whats that? where would they comer from? Fire would have destroyed workshop, shed and house attached before they got their butts into gear.
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
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    Aus
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    10

    Default

    Thanks Bob
    Appreciate the safety reminder. Easy to get complacent!

  4. #4
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    Feb 2006
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    Perth
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    Default

    Thanks to these the responded - please complete the poll if you haven't done so.

  5. #5
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    Just bumping this to see if we can get some more responses.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Jan 2015
    Location
    Latrobe Valley
    Posts
    21

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    Interesting poll Bob. My FIL used to give me the 'you're paranoid' ribbing every now and then with what I have done in my workshop (extinguishers at both entrances, oil soaked rags put in tin containers after use, metal cupboard for flammable bits, etc) but after being in the fire detection industry for 20 odd years, it's kinda hard not to be.

    That and finding a box of steel wool in my old workshop charred and burnt two days after doing some welding was the camel breaker for me. One close call was enough....

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