Cash-strapped students landed 176 fines for breaching fire safety rules last year – a 14 per cent rise on 2012.
The biggest contributor to the increase was the use of candles in rooms, with discoveries more than doubling in a year, according to data obtained
by Vision.
In 2012, fire inspectors issued 23 fines for candles in study rooms, but last year they made students pay up 50 times.
Additionally, those hoping to dodge penalties by storing wax lights in cupboards were also caught out – a staggering 40 times last year compared with none in 2012.
The fines have contributed to a rise in the number of penalties being issued by safety inspectors, with 24 more students being told they have breached rules in comparison to 2012.
There was some good news, though, as figures show that the number of malicious activations of a Manual Call Point nose-dived – down from 54 in 2012 to just one in 2013.
The number of students caught smoking in their room was also down – falling from 24 to 22 in 2013.
Good to see fines and action being taken on this. Early morning fire alarms are annoying!
tired of the word candle? how about ‘wax light’? only jack gevertz could give us this level of quality reporting