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In the News - Facebook
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| Below is our inline feed to Britannia Fire & Security's 'facebook' page. |
| Read all the latest news from the Fire and Security industry, together with Britannia's latest news posts directly from our 'facebook' social network homepage. |
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NEW Fire Safety Law Independent Third Party Certification
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With the introduction of the new legislation there is a requirement for fire safety equipment and services to be provided by competent persons.
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The Government has issued a series of eleven guides aimed at specific business areas to help employers and owners understand their responsibilities.
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Common to the guides is Section 8: Third Party certification schemes for fire protection products and related services are an effective means of providing the fullest possible assurances, offering a level of quality, reliability and safety that non-certified products may lack. .....Third Party quality assurances can offer comfort both as a means of satisfying you that the goods and services you have purchased are fit for purpose, and as a means of demonstrating that you have complied with the law".
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It is therefore important to understand what "Third Party" quality assurance schemes offer and how you can ensure the company or person you appoint to carry out fire safety work is competent and can provide you with a certificate of conformity.
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Fire Alarm Systems
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The nationally recognised quality schemes for fire alarm and fixed gaseous extinguishing systems are BAFE SP201, SP202 and SP203.
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SP203 is a modular scheme that provides for certification of the individual modules that comprise a system:
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Design
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Commissioning
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Installation
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Maintenance
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A company may be approved for just one or up to all four modules so it is important to check that your supplier can provide a Third Party certificate for the type of work you require.
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This will give similar guarantees to those associated with the extinguisher scheme detailed above.
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| By using a BAFE registered company for these areas of your fire safety work you will be confident that you have used a 'Competent Contractor'. |
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Scallywags Golf Society
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| The Scallywags Golf Society held its Annual Prize Bash at Oasis Restaurant, Chaparal on Sunday 12th October. |
| Golfers, wives, partners and friends attended the prize giving, Harry Fleming taking the 1st prize, with Mitch Jones 2nd and Frank Moss 3rd. |
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| A quiz was held to raise money for cancer, 150 euros, which will be passed on to the fund raisers, and the afternoon finished with a game of charades for those staying to the end. What a laugh! To all those who ran at the mention of the game, you really missed the fun! |
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Britannia - Golf Del Sur
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| Richard Slack director of Britannia from the UK, when he goes to Tenerife he plays golf with the Scallywags Golf Society. |
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| He and Frank Moss (captain) decided to have a two day golf competition, to raise some cash for charity. |
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| The event was held on Sunday 22nd, and Monday 23rd at Golf Del Sur. Everyone had a wonderful 2 days of golf, and raised 1000 euros for the San Mugel Lions Club. |
| The winners were: Sunday Individual - Daryl Holmes, Monday Individual - Eric Bengston, Team event over 2 days Britannia v Scallywags was won by Britannia. |
| We are all looking forward to next year! |
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| Do you tick the box for fire safety? |
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| If you are a specifier or end-user of fire protection products and services then BAFE should be a vital part of your selection process. |
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Whatever the use to which a product is put, it is manufactured in accordance with specific standards. In an industry devoted to protecting lives and property from fire, it is quite rightly argued that such product based standards are particularly important.
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| However, such standards are only half the story. Of equal importance is a robust method of ensuring that the systems in which those products operate, along with the services employed in installing and maintaining them, are also independently verified. |
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| That is where BAFE comes in. |
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| The responsible person |
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| October 2006 saw the introduction of the most wide ranging changes in fire safety legislation for more than 30 years. The onus is now definitely on the business owner/employer as the person responsible for ensuring effective fire safety. It is up to the responsible person to ensure that the individual or company employed to carry out fire safety work is competent to do so. BAFE offers the means by which such competence can be immediately and effectively demonstrated. The BAFE logo says that what is being specified or bought is competent, effective and reliable. |
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| Don't take the risk! |
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| Taking a risk with fire protection can have significant and even life-threatening consequences. Make sure you tick the safety box! |
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| Fire Extinguisher Supply & Maintenance |
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| The only nationally recognised 'Independent Third Party Quality Scheme' for companies undertaking the supply, installation and ongoing maintenance of portable firefighting equipment is BAFE SP101/ST104. |
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| This ensures that companies registered to this scheme are ISO9001-2000 approved and that both the company and service personnel are subject to ongoing independent audits of their activities. It also guarantees that: |
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The company has correct procedures for quality management.
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Its service personnel are correctly trained.
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The company and it's technicians are regularly and independently audited.
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It has a complaints procedure.
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