Fire alarm maintenance is a legal requirement under the Fire Safety Order 2006. Although your fire alarm system incorporates a high degree of monitoring so that faults are indicated automatically, it is still necessary for you to ensure that all fault indications that appear on the fire alarm panel are identified so that you can take appropriate action. The importance of regular testing being carried out is to ensure that there has not been any minor or major system failure, between the visits for the fire alarm maintenance. It also helps the site personnel to familiarise themselves with the operation of the fire alarm panel and testing of the fire detection.
The routine testing of the fire alarm system also provides an opportunity for all the occupants of the building to become familiar with the alarm and the signals that it produces. If your alarm has staged signal that give both an “Alert” and an “Evacuate” alarm, both signals should be operated when each test is carried out to ensure that the occupants are aware of the existence of both signals and their different meanings.
Fire alarm maintenance, should be carried out as a minimum, every six months.
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