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With school fire drills and workplace fire drills, flashing lights and blaring alarms are usually the most apparent fire emergency indicators. Therefore fire alarms should be regularly inspected and correctly maintained to ensure the safety of all visitors and building personnel.
Most fire alarms fail due to lack of fire alarm inspection, poor maintenance, and testing. Do you want to run such a risk? In this blog, Fire Detection Unlimited in Bay Area, Sacramento, and Stockton tell you all you need to know as far as fire alarm inspection and testing is concerned.
Alarm Inspection and Test Procedures
Before a fire alarm inspection is carried out, our fire safety technicians first need to notify the local fire department of their intention to carry out the tests. We do this to prevent the provocation of false alarms.
Once the Fire Detection Unlimited team gets to the site, our safety technicians conduct tests to make sure the fire alarm system components are all working properly. This includes all the fire alarm strobes and panels, the elevators, and the fire doors.
Test and Inspection Duration
The inspection procedure dramatically varies according to the size of the premises in question. As little as an hour is taken for small systems in contained areas, whereas more extensive facilities with several complex systems and buildings may take a couple of days. These inspections and tests need not be rushed as they must be thorough.
What Should My Employees Know?
Your employees should be made aware of the fire drill procedure of the building. They should also be informed when tests are to be carried out in the building. Though strobes, alarms, and other like elements in the system must be functionality tested, the test should only last a couple of minutes every time to make sure everything is appropriately functional.
Frequency of Tests and Inspections
It is essential to conduct fire alarm inspections regularly to maintain a facility’s safety and NFPA compliance. Each year, alarm communication equipment, initiating devices, and control panels must be tested by fire safety technicians. This is the bulk of the fire alarm inspection process. After every two years, inspections should also cover sensitivity tests and function tests for smoke detection equipment.
Conclusion
Fire alarms are the most immediate and effective means of alerting everyone in a building that an emergency has occurred and they need to evacuate. These systems need to be maintained regularly to ensure their proper functionality and continued reliability. Fire Detection Unlimited provides you with fire alarm inspection services anywhere in the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Stockton.