Life Safety Systems
What are Life Safety Systems
We consider a Life Safety system to be any interior building systems designed to protect people within a building during emergencies situations, including fires and less critical events, such as power failures. Fire-detection systems including heat and smoke detectors that can activate audible alarms is a Life Safety system, but other systems include; EVAC Systems and Refuge panels, Call Systems and including Toilet alarm systems.
These systems are often installed and forgotten about, but they require regular testing in accordance with the relevant British Standard, BS5839 & BS8300, to ensure they continue to work in an emergency situation
Emergency Lighting systems
Emergency lighting is one of the essential life safety systems required to be provided by an owner or occupant of premises, that is a place of work. The system should, if correctly designed, installed and maintained, reduce the possibility of an accident or loss of life in the event of an electrical power loss.
In the UK BS5266 places an obligation on building owners/occupiers to carry out regular routine tests of the emergency lighting installation, to ensure correct performance
We can service and maintain these systems in accordance with BS5266 and ensure scheduled testing is carried out and testing results documented
Fire Doors
Fire doors form an integral part of Life Safety Systems. Article 17 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (FSO) makes it a legal requirement to ensure that fire resisting doors and escape doors are correctly installed and adequately maintained in order for them to be fit for purpose. Periodic checks should be carried out at least once every six months although newly occupied buildings may require more frequent checks in the first year of use. Doors within heavy traffic zones should also be checked more frequently than other doors in the building, once per week or month, for example
For residential buildings in England, with storeys over 11 metres in height, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 made it a legal requirement from 23 January 2023 for responsible persons to:
undertake quarterly checks of all fire doors, including self-closing devices, in the common parts
undertake – on a best endeavour basis – annual checks of all flat entrance doors (including self-closing devices) that lead onto a building’s common parts
Service, Maintenance, Install, Commission
We can help manage and undertake the maintenance and checks for all Fire doors, both commercial and residential, along with carrying out a full inventary of doors on site and ensure repairs are carried out with the minimum of fuss with the minimum of downtime
