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RISK MANAGEMENT


Stephen Adams, general and marketing manager at BAFE, explains how a new BAFE emergency lighting scheme complements fire protection company certification.


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or health service premises, emergency lighting systems


are an important part of the fire prevention services that protect patients, staff and premises. After extensive consultation, the new BAFE Scheme (SP203-4) has been fully launched, with a growing number of certificates of registra- tion now being issued.


BAFE is the third party approv- als registration body for the fire protection industry and we now have more than 800 registered companies in our schemes, cover- ing all parts of the UK. BAFE is a fully independent, not-for-profit organisation and we work with in- dustry, certification and standards bodies to approve schemes that assess the competence of compa- nies who provide fire alarms and maintain portable fire extinguish- ers. BAFE will soon be launching


Sir Ken Knight, the Government’s chief fire & rescue advisor and Iain Cox, chief fire officer for Royal Berkshire FRS, who quoted the DCLG website: “Third-party cer- tification schemes for fire protec- tion products and related services are an effective means of provid- ing the fullest possible assurances, offering a level of quality, reliabil- ity and safety that non-certificated products may lack.”


our much-anticipated scheme for companies who provide Fire Risk Assessments (SP205) – a key re- quirement for compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire) Order introduced in 2006.


Following on from the very suc- cessful Fire Alarm System scheme the Emergency Lighting modular


scheme will permit organisations to become third party certificated in recognition of their competence. There are already two fully UKAS accredited certification bodies, and three others are working towards achieving accreditation.


The new scheme was launched at the Houses of Parliament with


There are a growing number of prosecutions for failures under the Regulatory Reform (Fire) Order, including inadequate emergency lighting systems, so it is vital that health service specifiers and man- agers ensure that their fire protec- tion work is carried out by compe- tent contractors.


FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit www.bafe.org.uk


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