Provides programs including:  
-  Self-teaching fire safety 
-  Adult fire safety 
-  Workplace fire safety 
-  Fire safety for older adults 
-  Fire safety for populations with special needs 
-  Preschool and school-age programs
- Interventions with youth involved in fire setting activities

Fire Safety Education offered by Seattle Fire Department at  Headquarters

Provides programs including self-teaching fire safety, workplace fire safety, fire safety for older adults and more.

Programs that are designed to increase public awareness of the measures that people can take to improve safety in the settings in which people work. Topics may include slips and falls, ladder safety, ergonomics, lifting and carrying, tool and equipment safety, personal protective equipment, vehicle safety, hazardous chemicals, electrical safety, stress, workplace violence, and safety issues such as hearing preservation programs and working safely in confined spaces that may relate to a particular industry or workplace environment.

Workplace Safety Education

Programs that are designed to increase public awareness of the measures that people can take to protect homes, businesses and property from the threat of fire.  Fire prevention programs provide information about faulty wiring and other electrical hazards, kitchen fires, smoking risks, child-related fire safety, flammable materials storage, brush clearance, fire retardant building materials and ground cover, techniques for fighting a fire until the fire agency arrives (first aid firefighting) and other similar topics. Included are programs that inspect the homes of individual citizens and give them a report which recommends ways to protect their property as well as those that deal with fire safety in a more general way.

Fire Prevention Information

Ensures safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. 
Investigates complaints of unsafe or unhealthful working conditions. Enforces the following worker rights:
- Receive workplace safety and health training in a language you understand
- Work on machines that are safe
- Receive required safety equipment, such as gloves or a harness and lifeline for falls
- Be protected from toxic chemicals
- Request an OSHA inspection, and speak to the inspector
- Report an injury or illness, and get copies of your medical records
- Review records of work-related injuries and illnesses
- See results of tests taken to find workplace hazards
- Protection from retaliation

Occupational Safety and Health Administration offered by U.S. Department of Labor

Ensures safe and healthful working conditions by setting and enforcing standards. Investigates complaints of unsafe or unhealthful working conditions as well as retaliation against whistleblowers.

Programs that promote safe and healthy work environments which protect working people from illness and injury and ensure that risks to health and safety in the workplace (such as exposure to toxic chemicals, biological agents, excessive noise or vibration levels, ionizing radiation, mechanical dangers, heat, cold, work-related stress or unsanitary conditions) are identified and assessed, then eliminated or controlled. Activities may include occupational illness and injury surveillance studies; enforcement of laws that establish health and safety standards for the workplace which seek to eliminate or minimize the incidence of employment-related personal illness, injury or death of workers; education programs and consultation services for employers and employees that address overall health and safety issues as well as specific workplace risk factors; and development and implementation of effective on-site workplace health and safety programs which include policies and procedures, instruction and supervision of workers, reporting and investigation of incidents, workplace inspections, and strong management support and worker participation.

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Fire Safety Education offered by Seattle Fire Department at Headquarters

Occupational Safety and Health Administration offered by U.S. Department of Labor