Publications
The Tasmania Fire Service has a wide range of freely available publications on fire safety and related topics. Most of the publications below are available in a printable PDF format. You will need a copy of Acrobat reader to open these files. Free copies of Acrobat are available on the web - see Download Acrobat reader if you need one.
To obtain a hardcopy of any of these free publications, e-mail fire@fire.tas.gov.au or call 1800 000 699 .
Home Fire Safety
About Project Wake-Up (198 kb)
Fire Safety at Home (3244 kb)
Home Escape Plan (328 kb)
House Fire Prevent & Survive (633 kb)
Juvenile Fire Lighter Prevention program (2,010 kb)
Project Wake-Up (148 kb)
After the fire (1,663 kb)
Bushfire Safety
Advice to householders when a bushfire threatens (48 kb)
Bushfire Checklist (144 kb)
Bushfire Prepare to Survive (2272 kb)
Bushfire Prepare to Survive DVD
(599 kb)
Using fire outdoors (856 kb)
Fire retardant garden plants (pamphlet)
Building Safety
Fire safety in buildings: it's your business! obligations of owners and occupiers (133 kb)
Guide to the selection and location of portable fire extinguishers and fire blankets (931 kb)
Minimum standards for evacuation plans in buildings (92kb)
Emergency action guide sample 1 (32kb)
Emergency action guide sample 2 (38kb)
Vegetation Management
Farming Communities - Co-operation between Tasmania Fire Service and Farming Communities (651 kb)
Fire Managing the Risks (1758 kb)
Fuel Reduction Burning Plan (PDF version, 189 kb), (Word version, 993 kb)
Guidelines for Vegetation Burning (PDF 13,569 kb)
Other Publications
Bushfire Development Guidelines (1394 kb)
State fire protection plan (61 kb)
