What makes Fire Alarm Testing important?
Fire alarms are one of the most important items in a household or business establishment to ensure safety. These devices are a key component that helps people to evacuate and save themselves from fire. That is why regular inspection and testing of fire alarms to ensure they are functioning properly is very important.
Additionally, by properly maintaining the system as a whole, families or businesses can prove their system meets their insurance provider’s fire protection requirements to claim their insurance money in the aftermath of a fire.
How is Fire Alarm Testing performed?
The test and inspection of the fire alarm components may include:
- Checking the control equipment: All related equipment must be operated to verify that signals are being transmitted properly to the control unit.
- The secondary power supply, battery or otherwise, must be tested by disconnecting the primary power supply.
- Testing Initiating devices: Manual pull stations or smoke detectors must be tested to ensure they are operating properly and transmitting their signals to the control unit.
- Alarm notification components: Horns, strobes must be tested to make sure that they are functioning correctly.
- Fire alarm systems are often integrated with mass notification systems and various other specialised components that also must be tested
How and how often should Fire Alarms be tested?
If fire alarms are not tested regularly and maintained well, small issues can lead to big issues and result in unnecessary repairs.
Maintenance of fire alarm components should be done according to the manufacturer’s instructions. How often testing and inspection should be done is dependent on the type of equipment and environmental conditions.
However, regardless of make and model, testing and inspection of fire alarms should be carried out at least once every year.
Who conducts Fire Alarm Testing?
These tests must be conducted by fire safety technicians, who will update tagged devices and provide a thorough overview of the inspection for the record.
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