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Mission Statement - We are devoted to reducing the loss of life and property from fire and accidents at campuses around the world by providing quality, cost effective: fire & life-safety training, education and resources.

Vision Statement - It’s our vision to remain one of the premier training & educational organizations while continuing to be strong advocates for the promotion of campus fire safety, Security and Risk management by providing resources designed to protect our nations future leaders and beyond.

"Keeping Fire Safety on Campus Proactive Not Reactive"

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.

The Annual Fire Protection and Life Safety Forum

The 21st Annual Forum - March 17 and 18, 2025

The Fire Code Expo and the Fire Protection Technology Exposition is a huge part of the annual "Life Safety Forum" Professional Development Series.

Training and education is very important to ensuring your community remains safe and your knowledge remnains sharp. We pride ourselves on providing the top rated and best conference of its kind. We would like to thank the 500 people who attended our 20th Annual event earlier in 2024.

Please visit the conference website - www.LifeSafetyForum.org

Hard work pays off - we are experiencing "Safer Campuses Todays"

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 injuries and 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.

Because of your hardwork and dedication to fire safety, over the last decade (plus) there has been a significant downward trend to campus related fires, injuries and fire fatalities since its highest in 2006-2007 with 20 on-campus deaths.

Off-campus housing is still a great concern and serious risk for students.

NFPA Report - Fies in Dormitories, Fraternities, Sororities, and Barracks

Click Here: "Structure Fires in Dormitories, Fraternities, Sororities and Barracks"

Author: Tucker McGree
Issued: July 2023

United States fire departments responded to an estimated average of 3,379 structure fires in dormitories, fraternity houses, sorority houses, and barracks each year during 2017–2021
Fires in dormitory-type properties caused an annual average of 23 civilian injuries and $12 million in direct property damage during that period
Approximately three out of four fires in these properties began in the kitchen or cooking area. Cooking equipment was involved in nearly 9 out of 10 fires

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.

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.

Our Fire Code Academy provides specialized and technical training & education. We are 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 25 years ago, because of the number of fire tragedies involving college students both on and off campus, we started pulling our resources together and providing services and training for educational facilities and off campus fire safety..

Over the years, we have grown and expanded to be one of the only organizations with teams of trained professionals dedicated specifically to fire and life safety issues on campus and off-campus housing. 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, our primary gols are 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 related to general safety type of 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.

Randall L. Hormann

President and CEO

Campus Fire Safety Com