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Business Sprinkler Alliance Highlights The Alarming UK Statistic That Only 15% Of New Schools Built With Sprinkler Systems

Of the 673 new schools that have been built and opened under the government’s flagship school program, only 105 were fitted with sprinklers. With hundreds of schools in the United Kingdom, witnessing a fire each year, this alarming statistic once again emphasizes that money spent on dealing with the aftermath of fires should be spent on sprinklers instead. The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) shares the concerns of Labour Party MP and former teacher, Stephanie Peacock, who stated “...

Viking Introduces New 3.0 K-Factor Residential Concealed Sprinkler

The Viking Corporation, a global pioneer in fire protection and life safety systems, has added a new 3.0 (43) K-factor residential flat plate concealed pendent sprinkler to its leading Freedom® residential product line. The new Model VK496 is cULus Listed with a flow rate of only 8 GPM (30 L/min), and a pressure requirement of only 7.1 PSI (0.49 bar) in a 12 x 12 ft (3,7 x, 3,7 m) room size. With its smaller K-factor and lower flow rates, the new glass bulb sprinkler is appropriate for NFPA...

USDA, State, Federal Agencies Align For Historic Partnership To Reduce Wildfire Risk And Improve Forests, Water, And Habitat

Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Director Kelly Susewind, USDA Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen, and Regional Forester Glenn Casamassa signed a Shared Stewardship Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), calling it a model for other states to follow. The MOU, only the second of its kind in the nation, establishes a framework for Washington state and the USDA Forest Service to work collaboratively toward mutual goals and effectively re...

Viking Launches 3.0 K-factor Residential Flat Plate Concealed Pendent Sprinkler

The Viking Corporation, a global provider of fire protection and life safety systems, has added a new 3.0 (43) K-factor residential flat plate concealed pendent sprinkler to its leading Freedom residential product line. The new model VK496 is cULus Listed with a flow rate of only 8 GPM (30 L/min), and a pressure requirement of only 7.1 PSI (0.49 bar) in a 12 x 12 ft. (3.7 x 3.7 m) room size. With its smaller K-factor and lower flow rates, the new glass bulb sprinkler is appropriate for NFPA 13D...

FoxFury Lighting Solutions Partners With NPS-DDP To Donate Drones To The Participating Agencies

FoxFury Lighting Solutions is partnering with the NPS-DDP (National Public Safety Drone Donation Program) in an effort to bring UAV/UAS technology to public safety agencies in need across the country. For the month of May, FoxFury pledges a percentage of its drone lighting sales to NPS-DDP with the goal of donating drones to agencies that have applied for program consideration. Dozens of fire departments, search and rescue teams, local police, border security, and more apply to NPS-DDP in the h...

Fire Protection Systems For Resort Safety: FCF Services

When people stay in a resort they all expect it to be safe and that in the event of a fire, they will be able to leave safely. Resort owners' primary concern is that guests enjoy their safe stay. Apart from offering first-rate services, this involves ensuring optimum life safety. Fire safety in resorts is delicate: users have to protect various aspects with different environmental conditions and ensure that guests adhere to resort fire safety rules. first sign of fire Resorts require devices...

Smoke Detector Compliance For Australian Landlords

Under Australian laws, all rental property owners must adhere to national electrical and fire safety regulations. These regulations enforce the installation of electrical and fire safety equipment in residential properties. These requirements are necessary to reduce the potential for fire-related deaths in rental properties. Local providers can help these property owners fulfill these requirements by installing Smoke Alarms as directed by the law. Rented Properties Requirements The Environmen...

Emergency Evacuation Plans For Buildings

Companies must prepare their employees for fire and emergencies. The preparation training and planning help these employees prevent a major disaster. Emergency evacuation plans provide them with the protocol and guidelines for managing these situations. Identifying Plans For Each Floor Company owners must start by assessing the escape routes for each floor of their building. These plans should show the escape route for each room on each floor. When the owner trains their employees, they shoul...

Fire Protection Strategies For The Hotel & Resort Industry

Resorts should ensure guests enjoy their safe stay with fun thoughts of vacation and exciting adventures, but in the event of a resort fire, some areas are not safe from the hazards and dangers of fire. Resort fires present special challenges for fire services. Resort fire Resorts are occupied by individuals who likely have little knowledge of the building's layout and egress paths, are not familiar with the building's fire safety system, emergency procedures, and alarm indications, and...

Importance Of After-Fire Emergency Diagram Training

As a business owner, the main concern is making the business flourish. One of the ways of ensuring this is keeping the staff up to date with an After Fire Emergency Diagram and the current business innovations as well provide training to further their skills. A properly trained staff is going to work more confidently and enable users to advance the business by offering the perfect goods and services to the clients. quality of service Lots of business owners, when looking at giving the best tr...

Healthcare Fire Safety: Understanding Extinguisher Classes

Gaining knowledge on Health Care Fire Classes and fire safety significantly increases the chances of surviving a blaze; Hence, the need for training. When they are undergoing fire safety training, one of the most significant parts is learning fire extinguisher types and uses. Fire extinguisher compliance requires the identification of the different types of fire extinguishers and the types of fires most likely to occur in the healthcare center. These types of fuels are categorized into cla...

Fire Extinguisher Facts For Real Estate Safety

Fire accidents can happen anytime and anywhere. Whether they have installed portable fire equipment or supplied fire blankets and fire hose reels for the business, confronting fire needs more than just having these installations. What better way to prepare themselves than to learn more about the importance and Fire Extinguisher Facts? Here are some of the facts and regulations that the real estate agency needs to know about the fire extinguisher. Why Does the Real Estate Agency Need A Fire Ext...

Comprehensive Fire Safety Solutions By FCF

When people stay in a resort they all expect it to be safe and that in the event of a fire, they will be able to leave safely. Resort owners' primary concern is that guests enjoy their safe stay. Apart from offering first-rate services, this involves ensuring optimum life safety. Fire safety in resorts is delicate: users have to protect various aspects with different environmental conditions and ensure that guests adhere to resort fire safety rules. fire protection system Resorts require devi...

Essential Business Fire Safety Equipment Guide

If the user owns a business, the user must have the proper Business Fire Safety Equipment at hand in case of an emergency. Fire safety precautions should be an active endeavor to protect businesses from the threat of fire. There are many types of fire safety equipment that should ideally be installed in a building, for aversion and security, as well as suppression too. decent fire system Various things can cause a fire, even with the best innovation accessible. It's good to have the...

Business Fire Safety Equipment Compliance Guide

Every business building, commercial, and retail lease should have business fire safety equipment that meets or perhaps surpasses the requirements of the law. It is crucial that business owners completely understand their obligations so they can be sure they stay compliant and their building stays safe for their customers and employees. With this particular information, business owners can be completely educated on what they need to do to remain compliant and how they can maintain their equipmen...

FCF Highlights Fire Safety Equipment For Restaurants And Cafes

Fire safety in restaurants, cafes, and other eating establishments should be a top priority since kitchens are always at risk of fires due to cooking equipment. Therefore, it is crucial to have the best firefighting equipment and preventative maintenance. Electric appliances, open flames, hot cooking equipment, the possibility of grease fires, and cleaning chemicals are risks for starting a devastating fire. Fire prevention and protection are vital for all restaurants; take note of these essent...

FCF Offers Essential Medical Fire Equipment Overview

Fire safety in healthcare facilities should not be taken lightly. In fact, the worst part about fighting fire is that it always comes without a warning. Dealing with this calls for professional advice and safety practices. One of them is installing the necessary fire equipment for the medical center. When planning for installation, make sure to use this Medical Fire Equipment Checklist as the guide. Portable Fire Extinguishers This piece of equipment - Portable Fire Extinguishers is certainly...

FCF Explains Fire Extinguisher Regulations For Business Safety

The safety of employees and the public should be one of the most important concerns any business owner has on their mind. Fire Extinguisher Regulations are an important consideration for businesses because fire is a risk everyone shares. Being properly protected is the easiest way to avoid any non-compliance issues. Because the laws do occasionally change, it is a good idea to be aware of the most recent requirements. Fire Extinguisher Requirements Portable Fire Safety is something everyone i...

FCF Highlights Retail Safety: Fire Extinguisher Service Guide

Fire presents a considerable threat to businesses. It can seriously hurt customers or employees and can damage or destroy stock, equipment, and buildings. Ensuring fire extinguisher testing is carried out and ensuring it can be operated properly is a crucial component of maintaining retail businesses safe from fire. Fire extinguisher service carried through on a frequent basis ensures that in an urgent situation it is going to be in the very best condition to combat a fire. That is why a range...

Fire Evacuation Plans: Business Safety Essentials

Emergency Evacuation Plans for Businesses are mandated by law and Occupational Health and Safety guidelines. They should be implemented, rehearsed, and enacted to minimize employee injury and loss of life. Fire Evacuation Procedures are among the most vital of these plans. Business owners work closely with local and federal agencies to draw up these life-saving initiatives. Make fire evacuations a priority Fire evacuation procedures should be among the first measures put into place Fire evac...

Knauf Insulation Opens A New Experience Center In Belgium To Inspire Building Excellence Across Europe

Knauf Insulation is celebrating the official opening of its new Experience Center in Belgium — a new knowledge base designed to inspire building excellence across Europe. The new center will provide practical insight into how to create low-carbon, energy efficient buildings that are healthy, comfortable and fire safe while tackling Europe’s unskilled labor crisis by equipping installers with the expertise they need to deliver real energy-saving performance. Photovoltaic electricity...

Fire Protection Systems For Retail Businesses

It doesn't matter how small or big the retail business is; there are numerous fire hazards in retail stores; the reality is that the building requires a fire protection system for commercial retail businesses. The business would need a reliable fire alarm system on the premises. Retailers maintaining fire protection systems will go a long way in protecting their business and unexpected expenses. If they put in early warning fire detection systems in the premise, it functions as a watchdog. In c...

Photoelectric Smoke Alarms: Essential Fire Safety Guide

A photoelectric smoke alarm is a smoke alarm that uses fluctuations in a light beam as a fire indicator. This smoke alarm is quite sensitive and perfect for locating smoldering fires that burn slowly and at low temperatures, for instance, furniture and mattress fires, or fires in drapes and beneath rugs. Photoelectric smoke alarms can be easily bought at local hardware stores. Some fire departments and fire safety organizations offer these smoke alarms to the public for free. However, the free...

FCF Highlights The Importance Of Fire Suppression Systems In Resorts

Fire safety in a resort is delicate, and facility managers have to protect various areas with different environmental conditions, among these is the kitchen and fire in the kitchen are more likely to occur than nearly any other area in the resort.  With continual contact with high heat, fires can break out for a variety of reasons. Irrespective of why a fire starts out, what is crucial is suppressing the fire as quickly as possible. Fire suppression systems Water generally is not an opti...

FCF On Fire Safety: Modern Systems For Gold Coast Resorts

Fire Regulations are actually a crucial task for any person owning or managing a resort. To ensure the safety of the resort and it's guests, it's essential that fire safety installations for buildings are in place with ample fire safety solutions and sufficient fire safety training is provided for resort staff. It's likewise critical that any fire protection and electrical requirements on-site are met and regularly maintained so that it's stored in appropriate working order and prepared if nee...

Fire Extinguisher Training: Essential For School Safety

Because of the dynamics of staff duty in the Education industry, having good Fire Extinguisher Training in schools is much more critical than ever before, so that panic and injury can be averted. Fire Safety usually means having enough emergency procedures in a position like fire extinguisher training and conducting regular fire drills to ensure that in the event of a fire, everybody understands what they should do. risk assessments Additionally, it means understanding what comprises a fire r...

Seek Thermal Tops The 2019 Best Tech Startup In Santa Barbara List

Seek Thermal announces The Tech Tribune has named the company as its choice as ‘2019 Best Tech Startup in Santa Barbara.’ This represents the first time Seek Thermal has been selected for this honor. The Tech Tribune staff considered several factors when selecting ‘Best Tech Startups in Santa Barbara’ candidates including revenue potential, leadership team, brand and product traction, and competitive landscape. To be considered for this list, all candidate companies must...

Behind The Tools At HURST Jaws Of Life: Bradley Stevens

Who’s behind the tools at HURST Jaws of Life? It’s people like Bradley Stevens, a man who has a passion for racing cars and motorcycles and whose job helps ensure first responders can get people out of them. “I’ve been in and around cars in every way you can imagine – driving them, fixing them, racing them,” Bradley said. Unfortunately, he added, racing sometimes means wrecking. “You fix one thing, then it’s another. And racing doesn’t pay t...

MSA Safety Incorporated Puts The Spotlight On Construction Safety To Support OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down Week

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), falls continue to be the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry. To help combat this sobering, but preventable statistic, globally renowned safety equipment manufacturer - MSA Safety Incorporated has announced that it will conduct free fall protection training sessions, from May 6 to May 10, 2019, during OSHA’s annual National Safety Stand-Down Week. Fall protection training As part of this week-lon...

POK S.A.S Highlights The Range Of Portable Monitors And Monitors For Fixed Installations In Their Inventory

POK S.A.S builds a wide range of monitors. Originally these devices were intended to use pressures and flows beyond the range of portable equipment, whether by one or more firefighters. Fifty years ago, there were monitors for fixed installations such as those fitted to pump boats or fuel depots and oil refineries. Other monitors were movable because they were mounted on wheeled platforms, either movable manually or on the road. The flow rates and pressures of these devices have always depended...

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