Fire Alarms Maintenance
An essential part of your Fire Protection Strategy, and just as
your ‘Risk Assessment', Fire Alarm maintenance Contracts need to be in written form and updated regularly (at
least annually) then your
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Automatic Fire Detection System |
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Emergency Lights |
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Fire Extinguishers
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need to be checked periodically by a ‘competent’ person to ensure that its
integrity is safeguarded and it is able to sound an alarm if called upon.
This process is not just liaising with your Fire Company you should also
remember that you also need to:
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Test the system regularly |
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Have a written evacuation plan,
communicate it to your employees and practice it. |
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Have trained ‘Fire Wardens’ to help others
where necessary. |
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Report any faults to your ‘fire emergency
systems’ immediately and log the fact. |
Remember also that if you have people on site with disabilities, do you need
to upgrade an existing system by adding strobe lighting for the ‘hearing
impaired’, do you need to add ‘induction loop’ technology to the building for
employees or visitors.
The object of all these procedures is to safeguard ‘life’ and prevent injury
to persons on or within the premises for which you are responsible for, and in
order to achieve this they need to be alerted as soon as possible to an
emergency situation and be provided with a means to escape.
The other party to these responsibilities which so far have not been
mentioned are your ‘Insurers’, they are important to your business as they will
be expected to make good losses arising from a ‘Fire situation’.
They will of course judge any claim made on the basis of a proper and working
system being in place, and that it was working correctly at the time. They will
know the legislation and standards relating to Fire systems and failure to
comply may weaken your right to claim.
SO BE ADVISED, BE MAINTAINED, CALL US FOR HELP.
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