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Welcome
Campus Fire Safety is a group of fire and safety professionals, training specialists, and educators who specialize in "all hazard" consulting, training, and education. Our end users are; Colleges, Universities, Public & Private School Districts, Parents & Students, Greek Housing, Fire & Emergency Responders, Government Agencies, and Large Businesses & Corporate Campuses.

Since our inception in 2000 we have shown a consistent commitment to assisting our clients to achieve safer work, study and living practices and environments through a partnership approach to risk identification and management.

We are is at the forefront of fire safety training and consultancy. We partner with some of the most well regarded and experienced consultants, trainers and operations executives working in the fire, life safety, and fire protection arena today.

18th Annual Campus Fire Safety and Emergency Management Conference

 This event is a huge part of the Annual "Life Safety Forum" Professional Development Series - Because of Covid-19, there will be no 2021 conference. This annual event has been tentatively scheduled next for February of 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. 

Training and education is very important to ensuring your campus and community remains safe. We pride ourselves on providing the top rated and best conference of its kind. We would like to thank the 450+ people who attended our 17th Annual event in 2020. Please click here to visit the conference website - www.LifeSafetyForum.org

The Glenn A. Gaines Memorial Award for Excellence in Campus Fire Prevention
The Glenn A. Gaines Memorial Award for Excellence in Campus Fire Prevention is presented annually to those campuses or fire departments who unselfishly contributed to the greater good by providing effective fire safety education through program development, delivery, organization, and creativity in an effort to reduce the number fires on campus and in off campus student housing.

This award is named after Chief Glenn Gaines, the former Deputy U.S. Fire Administrator for the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). Chief Gains had a strong commitment to campus fire safety and fire prevention. He was always interested in listening to success stories related to campus fire prevention and in-turn, he would offer thoughtful insights on what steps a campus community should work towards to help better protect students across the nation.

The 2020 award winner will be announced at the 17th Annual Campus Fire Safety and Emergency Management Conference and Expo. For more information about the The Glenn A. Gaines Memorial Award please Click Here.


Hard work pays off - we are experiencing "Safer Campuses Todays"
Over the last decade there has been a downward trend to on-campus related fires and fire fatalities since its highest in 2006-2007 with 20 on-campus deaths.

The last fatal fire in a "Greek House" (fraternity/sorority) was 2006 and the last fatal residence hall fire occurred in 2005.
Off-campus housing is still a great concern and serious risk for students.


Emergency Management (EM) and the All Hazards Approach
With the recent statistics show a significant downward trend to fire and related incidents on campus,
we have re-focused our efforts to include an "All Hazard" approach; expanding our focus to include emergency preparedness, emergency management, and general safety.

 

Our organizational mission is to provide the resources and expertise necessary to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and prevent the loss of life and/or property from unexpected emergencies.

Campus EM Ready! - We are working to help develop, build and implement EM programs on campus.

Every Student Goes Home
As you start winding up this academic school year many students are preparing to move "off campus" and seek housing arrangements for the next step in their lives. We want to turn our focus and efforts on creating an environment free from the dangers of fire, and fire related injuries & fatalities to our nations future.

One of the goals all educational institutions have across the world is that at the end of the school year - Every Student Goes Home! Our goal is a combined effort for unified safety on and off campus through education and an educational dialog between students, parents, campus administrators, housing officials (both on and off campus) and the local fire department.

Join us in the efforts to create a unified nationally accepted plan for protecting our students. If you have an interest in volunteering and supporting our efforts as part of our technical team, we are currently recruiting subject matter experts and corporate sponsorship to develop this national campaign and to work on our off campus fire death taskforce. Please e-mail Randy Hormann (info below) with your desire to participate and please include a small bio and or resume.


CFS Awarded Government and Military Contracts to Conduct Firefighter Training Nationwide
The educational arm of the Campus Fire Safety organiation (The Fire Code Academy) has been selected on multiple occasions to conduct training and educational workshops for Federal and Military Firefighters with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), the United States Army, and the United States Air Force (ANG). We have created one of the best private fire code and fire protection training academies in the country.


Fatal Fires on Campus
Unfortunately over the years, we have experienced and suffered a number of fire tragedies involving college students both on and off campus.

Many of these deaths could have been prevented. We ask you to help empower those around you to adopt fire-safety habits and education for students, parents, campus administrators, those who regulate on campus housing and those who rent to students off campus.

Here is a map showing fatal (campus) fires across the county. Click on this map for specific information on each fire. This information is provided by CFW.  


OSHA Training and Compliance Programming
One of the responsibilities of the Fire Code Academy is to provide OSHA level training and written program consulting to business and general industry companies. Please visit the Fire Code Academy by clicking the link above for more information regarding industry training.  


How Can We Help Students on Campus Have A Safe Experience?
We provide a variety of services from on site consultation to training program development. Our goal is to provide services and information to those facilities who may not have the resources of a dedicated fire safety professional.  

Education and Consulting Division - We specialize in fire and life safety program development, emergency management planning, consulting, and onsite fire safety and risk reduction audits. Our primary expertise include: higher education, student housing (on campus, off campus and Greek organizations) K-12 School Systems, Health care, and Campus based businesses. Please see our list of services located above.

Fire Code Academy - The only Fire Code Academy in the World, we provide specialized and technical training & education. The Fire Code Academy is one of only a few organizations in the country to host fire code and related trainings specifically. Instruction is provided on code inspection fundamentals and training on the Ohio Fire Code, The International Fire Code, NFPA 1, NFPA 101 and related NFPA standards. Members of the fire service, government agencies, and corporate risk management personnel are invited to attend programs hosted by the "Fire Code Academy".


From the Desk of Our President and CEO
Thank you for visiting our website. Over 15 years ago, we started out providing consulting services and training specifically for educational facilities.

Over the years, we have grown and expanded to be one of the only teams of trained professionals dedicated specifically to fire and life safety issues on campus based operations. Today our focus is not just educational, we have expanded to include government, medical and business campuses across the county.

As the very first organized effort to address and combat Fire Safety issues on college and university campuses including student housing, Campus Fire Safety com was formed to provide an avenue for those needing assistance in their multi-building fire and safety effort.

Currently, we provide a wide variety of services from on-site risk assessment audits to educational programs for parents, students, faculty and staff on educational campuses. In addition, we provide similar services to general safety and risk management programs and training for business and industry professionals.

You have my commitment we will continue to offer cost effective training programs, consulting services & educational conferences to keep facilities safe from fire and dangerous conditions. The professionalism and the quality of our programs and services we provide are second to none.

Please let us help you plan for the future now. As our mission statement says:
"Keeping Fire Safety Education Proactive, Not Reactive"

If you have questions concerning the services we offer, please feel free to give me a phone call or send me an email.

I appreciate your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Sincerely,
 
Randall L. Hormann, President and CEO

 

                     

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