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Halloween is a time for fun and frights, but behind the festivities lurk hidden dangers – including fire hazards.

From 2000 to 2004, decoration fires accounted for an estimated 1,610 reported home structure fires per year, the majority involving candles as the heat source, and causing seven civilian deaths, 60 civilian injuries and $24.9 million in direct property damage per year.

It goes without saying that RJWestmore wants you to ‘BE SAFE’ – no matter how you’re celebrating the holiday. Whether you’re hosting a party or donning a creative costume to trick-or-treat, we hope you’ll follow these safety tips from the National Fire Protection Association.

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We’re often asked if we really believe training can save lives. We do! And here’s why:

Training is one of the most important tools used to enhance employee performance. This is especially true in life-threatening situations like responding to a fire, earthquake, bomb threat, medical emergency or other natural or man-made disasters. Your ability to know what to do and react immediately with the correct response can save lives.

The key to successful training that has high rates of retention is to train staff broadly to understand goals and constraints of each emergency situation, rather than training narrowly to follow sets of procedures without thinking.

Bob Westmore is frequently quoted as saying, “Emergencies never read the plans written to address them.”  In other words, no two emergency situations are exactly alike. More intuitive training developed by RJWestmore and utilized on the RJWestmore Online Fire Life Safety Training System, increases retention rates by 60% to 200% while it teaches users to learn to recognize situations and adapt their responses as appropriate to achieve the safest outcome.

Proper response training is the only way to proactively prevent the loss of life in an emergency situation. We can help.

BE SAFE!

RJWestmore Inc. is proud to announce that three TOBY (The Outstanding Building of the Year) Award Winners use the RJWestmore Online Fire Life Safety Training System!

These clients include 1901 Avenue of the Stars, AT&T Center, and Los Angeles Corporate Center.

The 23rd Annual TOBY Awards was held at the legendary Beverly Hilton Hotel. With more than 550 attendees, this commercial real estate gala lived up to its expectations as one of the most prestigious industry events in Los Angeles.

Congratulations to each of our award-winning clients for putting safety first!

You can be an award winner, too. With the RJWestmore Online Fire Life Safety Training System, you can bring your buildings up to code in 30 days. Our interactive, building-specific e-learning training system motivates and rewards tenants instantly. It’s a convenient and affordable solution to the training needs of your building(s).

Here at RJWestmore, our goal is to “Save Lives Through Training.” So far we’ve trained more than 150 million square feet, and it’s our mission to train 150 million more.

BE SAFE!

This week marks the beginning of the National Fire Protection Association’s Fire Prevention Week – which means that there’s no better time to safeguard your home.

Fire departments nationwide responded to nearly 400,000 home fires in 2006, but by practicing extra caution, preventing the leading causes of home fires – cooking, heating, electrical and smoking materials – is within your power.

First, here are some statistics you should know:

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