HM Prison Service provides instructions to ensure that governing governors and directors of both prisons and young offender institutions have contingency plans in place in the event of fire, death and other emergencies.
Public and private sector prison staff receive the appropriate training to ensure they have required skills and knowledge to deal with incidents of fire, death and other emergencies in prisons. It is the responsibility of individual prisons to assess the training needs of their staff to ensure these incidents are managed effectively.