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Fire fighting motor cycle
The Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service located at city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom have been carrying out a trial of two rapid response motor cycles fitted with 50l ow water and foam for fire fighting purposes.
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How long will my fire panel battery last?
I have been asked to discuss the reasons why we recommend the installation of a second (tertiary) set of backup batteries installed in parallel to the existing main (secondary) batteries installed within a fire panel during a planned mains power shut down.
Example
The building owner contacted us to advise they plan to shut down the power to their building for a period of 8 - 12 hours for maintenance purposes. The planned shut down will also remove mains power from the fire panel.
The building owner contacted us to advise they plan to shut down the power to their building for a period of 8 - 12 hours for maintenance purposes. The planned shut down will also remove mains power from the fire panel.
There is a small fire panel installed on site designed to Australian Standard AS1670.1-2004, fitted with an occupant warning system.
In this example the customer wanted to know if it is necessary to install tertiary backup batteries.
Five types of Smoke Detector!
Recently I updated our internal training module titled "Smoke Detectors 101". These training modules are available only to Maintenance Essentials employees and official Partners.
Each of these training modules are bite sized and designed to be easily read in about 30 minutes.
This article is an extract from this training module...
Providing a Safe Work Environment!
Building Owners and Building Occupiers responsibilities explained...
More and more often, I have been hearing stories about the confusion by building owners and their agents in regard to the maintenance of essential safety measures. Worse, I have also heard about some practices of 'audit & compliance companies' who are perpetuating the confusion either out of a lack of understanding or for financial gain.
First of all, there are six individuals or groups of people that could be considered in this discussion;
- The Building Owner (landlord)
- The Building Owners Agent
- The Employer (occupier)
- The Employer's employees
- The Municipal Building Surveyor
- The Public
In the event of a disaster, the buck usually stops with the Building Owner or the Employer!
For the purpose of this article I am focusing on the obligations of these two groups of people!
Six strategies to take control of your time!
In the world of fire and essential safety measures maintenance, there are always pressing issues that try and distract you from being your most effective.
The time management presentation below is one that I developed using ideas and concepts from other people and circulated amongst our employees...
