WHAT’S NEW? ALL-ROUND SAFETY AT
HMP WINCHESTER Advanced portable appliance testing instrumentation is helping the facilities management team at HM Winchester Prison fulfil a range of essential health and safety responsibilities.
GROUND BREAKING EXTINGUISHER TO EXHIBIT AT THE
FACILITIES SHOW Safelincs have already helped many clients, such as hospitals, colleges, refineries and offices, to make the change to the P50 service-free extinguisher, saving the customer time and money in the process. This ground breaking extinguisher does not require an annual service by a trained technician; it only requires a visual inspection that can be carried out by one of your staff. It does not have to be refilled after five years, saving you even more money.
Following last year’s transfer of facilities management services at a number of prisons to Carillion, the FM team at Winchester is using a Seaward Apollo 600 tester to combine electrical testing with a range of other workplace safety tasks.
To meet its health and safety responsibilities, the in-house facilities management team at Winchester has established rigorous inspection and testing procedures to ensure that all prison equipment and systems remain safe for use by both staff and prisoners.
Importantly, as well as the safety of all electrical equipment and appliances used on the prison site, this includes the regular testing of water systems for Legionnaires disease, the condition of emergency lighting systems and fire alarm control panels.
To help the team meet its responsibilities, the focal point of the prison’s health and safety inspection and testing programme is the multi-purpose Apollo 600 tester, supported by the PATGuard 3 Elite software program.
As part of the safe systems of work established in the prison, the Apollo is used to produce bar codes to identify all individual electrical
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While traditional extinguishers have to be refilled every five years, the P50s only need refilling after ten years, a massive cost-saving and a great environmental advantage. By cutting out annual engineer travel and the need to refill every five years, these extinguishers offer your business a great reduction of your carbon footprint and chemical waste output.
Safelincs makes the introduction of the P50 service-free extinguishers easy for you. We offer to introduce the extinguishers either gradually, in line with the existing extinguisher stock reaching the end of their service life, or in one install. We will work with you and plan the install processes to suit your needs. We even offer consolidation
appliances and other items of equipment included in the health and safety inspections. This includes water tanks and emergency lighting system components, so that the correct data and records are stored automatically against each item as inspections are undertaken.
In addition, the instrument’s on- board camera also enables images taken during visual inspections and risk assessments to be tagged against records to provide evidence of decisions taken and a traceable audit trail of all safety conditions.
Jeff Foster, FM services manager for Carillion at HMP Winchester, said:
of traditional extinguishers with residual service life in parts of the property, while introducing the P50 series in other parts of the buildings or property.
Manufactured in the UK and kitemarked by BSI to BS EN3, the P50 range of extinguishers 100% corrosion-free and come with a 10- year warranty. These units can also be refurbished to offer a further 10 years service.
Installing the P50 extinguisher can save you up to £300 per extinguisher. If you would like to know more, contact us today. You can also come and see the P50 extinguisher range at stand S1215 at the Facilities Show, Excel London, 21st-23rd June 2016.
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“With the huge variety of equipment and appliances in use in the prison, there is a considerable time saving in being able to identify items, carry out tests, record results and make any notes as part of a fully streamlined process.”
At HMP Winchester, the electrical team uses the battery powered Apollo 600 to carry out all of the electrical safety tests required by the IET Code of Practice on the many different appliances used in the prison’s workshop, office, kitchen, recreational and accommodation areas.
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