Your wellbeing

A home is a place where you feel safe and secure. Your student accommodation should be no exception.

Below you’ll find everything you need to know to keep your student home safe, plus who to call if you need help.  

Fire safety

Everyone knows how important it is to keep your home safe. As part of a community of thousands of other students, you should take all the precautions you would in your own home (and more) to ensure everyone’s safety.

Our fire safety video covers everything you need to know to do just that. At just over three minutes long, it’s a quick watch that may help you save a life.

We would like to highlight the following key messages:

• Never leave cooking unattended, and make sure to ventilate your kitchen well if there’s smoke – cooking is the most common cause of fires and fire alarm activations in accommodation.
• Never cover smoke detectors – these ensure the alarm is raised quickly in the event of a fire. If any smoke detectors are found covered, you will be charged for the detector to be checked to ensure it’s still operational.
• Never prop open fire doors – these are critical to slowing the spread of fire and are therefore important pieces of life-saving equipment. Propping open fire doors is a serious breach of contract.

You are not permitted to charge electric scooters or bikes within your accommodation. Also, please do not use rice cookers, kettles or toasters in your room, or leave plugged-in fans or heaters unattended.

For more information, please visit the ‘Your safety’ section of the Accommodation Pass (available to students in University accommodation only).