Month: August 2022

If you are someone who owns a commercial property in Galway, such as a cafe, filling station, or an office of some kind, you have a number of obligations to take care of on a daily basis. Business owners are naturally busy, which means that certain details, like keeping an eye on your fire alarm system, can often go ignored.

At ProSecurity, we have delivered fire alarm installation in Galway for a number of years, making sure business owners are completely covered and have their assets and employees protected. Often, though, they forget to make sure their fire alarm systems are working properly. We take maintenance just as seriously as the installation, because fire alarms are only effective if they work all year round.

That is why we recommend that business owners complete checks and tests, which are two different things. This blog post walks you through what both of them involve.

Checks
As a business owner, you can complete checks by yourself, and we recommend that you do this on a daily basis – incorporating it into your wider routine of managing your commercial property. All this requires is checking that there are no faults or errors displayed on the control panel; you don’t need to activate the alarm. You aren’t required to record any of this in the fire-safety logbook. It’s just a quick check to see that the system is working like it should do.

Tests
When it comes to testing, this is something that should be carried out by the building’s appointed responsible person, which could be the business owner or someone else. This individual should have appropriate training and be familiar with manufacturer’s instructions. Government regulations stipulate that tests should be carried out once a week. The test involves operating a different call point to ensure the system is fully tested and can be heard throughout the premises. Staff should be notified before, so they know the fire alarm going off is just a drill.

Are you a business owner who recently had fire alarm installation in Galway, or needs help updating their system? If so, get in touch with us at ProSecurity. We’d be happy to answer any questions over the phone and arrange an initial site visit. Get in touch with us at any time.

If you own a business in Galway, or any other part of Ireland, you will have customers and/or employees that you need to look after, along with various important physical assets, such as office equipment, inventory, or perishable goods. As you will know, it takes considerable time and money to build up a business, and if you aren’t careful, all it takes is a minor fire outbreak for it to all come crashing down.

As a result, you do not just have a moral obligation to your employees and customers to have a proper fire alarm system installed; it is also a practical and legal necessity. Any commercial building in Ireland must, by law, align with fire alarm regulations, so it is obviously important you know what these are. Failing to abide by these regulations could mean notable financial losses in the event of a fire, along with damage to physical assets and danger to other people.

In this blog post, we will walk through what the fire alarm regulations in Ireland actually are, so you can be sure your business in Galway is completely covered when it comes to fire safety.

By law, all businesses in Ireland must have a fire alarm system in place. As a business owner, you are obligated to follow the I.S. 3218 standards for fire alarm systems, which specifies requirements for how fire alarms must be designed, installed, and maintained. It covers both domestic and commercial properties and ensures that the apparatus you have in place meets a series of guidelines.

For every business, consideration needs to be made in regard to where fires are most likely to start, as this informs where smoke and heat detectors are placed throughout the building. The fire alarm system should be tested weekly and serviced every six months. If you own a building where people sleep – hotels, apartments, etc. – you are required to have a maintenance service every three months. All workers must also be able to hear the fire alarm from anywhere in the building, with call points made readily available at all exits.

Following all these guidelines is paramount, but as a busy owner of a commercial property, you may not have time. At ProSecurity, our team of professional installers have years of experience in making sure fire alarms are installed to I.S. 3218 standards, comfortably taking care of issues like ensuring detectors have been added to the right places and maintaining them to the best possible standard.

If you would like to know more about how we provide fire alarm system installation in Galway that meet legal requirements for commercial properties, please do get in touch.