Fire action notice. A printable fire action notice for the wall, with blanks for the assembly point, the alarm sound and who to call, rather than a sign that tells everybody the wrong assembly point.
This is artwork for a wall. What it should say — your evacuation strategy, your assembly point, whether anybody is expected to stay put — comes out of your fire risk assessment, and neither a printed notice nor FireOptix decides it for you.
What is on the sheet
- On discovering a fire: raise the alarm, then the premises' own instruction
- On hearing the alarm: leave by the nearest available exit and go to the assembly point
- A blank for the assembly point, filled in by hand or typed before printing
- A blank for what the alarm sounds like, which differs between buildings and matters to anybody new
- Do not use the lift, do not stop to collect belongings, do not re-enter
- A blank for who to call and for the person to report to at the assembly point, and a printed date so a superseded notice is visibly old
Why this record matters
Fire action notices go wrong by being generic. A notice bought in a pack and screwed to a wall will name no assembly point, or name the one from the last building, and the one piece of information somebody actually needs at that moment is the one it does not carry.
So this is a frame with blanks in it. Printing a notice that says 'assembly point: ______' and leaving it blank is obvious; printing one that confidently says 'the car park' when the car park is where the fire brigade will be is not.
The alarm-sound line is the part most notices omit and visitors most need. A building where the fire alarm is a two-tone sounder and the intruder alarm is a bell is a building where the distinction has to be written down somewhere, and a notice by the door is where somebody will read it.
The date is there for housekeeping. Notices outlive assembly points, phone numbers and whole evacuation strategies, and a dated notice is one somebody can see is out of step without having to work it out.
Use it with
- Fire drill recordA printable fire drill record covering the scenario, the routes used, how the evacuation actually went, what went wrong and what was changed as a result.
- Fire safety induction checklistA printable induction checklist for new starters, contractors and anybody else who needs to know what the alarm sounds like and where to go when it does.
- Escape route inspection checklistA printable walk-the-route checklist for escape routes and final exits — clear, openable, lit, signed and free of the storage that accumulates in corridors.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Written for England and Wales. General guidance, not legal advice. Checked October 2026.