Introducing the new Live Safe Research Library - here you will find a collection of white papers, case studies, publications and resources for corporate and institutional policy makers, college and university administrators, fire safety professionals, scholars, educators, residential homeowners and businesses.
Our selection is limited for now, but please stay tuned for an accompanying series of White Papers, as well as other resources.
Readers may freely distribute, republish, or link to this white paper, but only in its complete form, including all copyright notices, attributions, links, and acknowledgements of Live Safe™ and other organizations mentioned herein.
Dear friends and safety advocates,
The Live Safe Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the “LS White Paper Campaign” an ongoing series of reports on institutional risk and specific actions to reduce fire risks and liability. Our newly released white paper “College and University Risk of Legal Liability Associated with Student Housing Fires” is attached for your further distribution. The report is a much-needed analysis of the fire-safety risks faced by universities, and how to systematically minimize those risks and the related liability through preparedness and education. This free white paper is a valuable tool for college administrators responsible for implementing and managing fire-safety programs.
Our team of subject-matter experts has gone to great lengths in producing this material. The white paper specifically explores the risk of liability associated with student housing fires, and university “duties” regarding fire safety; it explains four specific actions to reduce university fire-related liability and concludes with 6 ways colleges benefit from training students in fire safety.
Through the white paper campaign, Live Safe will spearhead efforts to improve institutional fire-safety policy, act as a conduit for policy development, and strive to provide institutions with access to liability-and-policy-related information and guidance. Our objective is to ensure the implementation of useful, effective (risk-reducing) fire-safety policy on a broad basis.
I hope you enjoy this thought-provoking report. We see it as an important part of the ongoing conversation about how to accomplish real fire safety at America ’s Universities and Colleges.
Download this Live Safe Foundation White Paper and Learn:
- The nature of university liability for student housing fires
- Universities’ “duties” regarding fire safety
- Four specific actions to reduce fire-related liability
- Six ways colleges benefit from training students in fire safety
We look forward to producing more of Live Safe’s useful white papers in the months ahead, and hope you will benefit by having access to this material.
Jill Marcinick, Board Chair
