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Starkstrom reports ‘considerable growth’ in demand
Starkstrom has its UK office and manufacturing facility in Syston, Leicester. The company is in its 53rd year of offering integrated solutions for the design, supply, installation, and commissioning, of electrical safety solutions for Group 2 medical locations, and infrastructure and clinical products to NHS and private hospitals for operating theatres and ‘Recovery’, Critical Care, Emergency Departments, Endoscopy, and training facilities.
Products manufactured in its factory ‘support the UK economy by maintaining and creating local jobs’. It said: “High-quality manufacturing to international standards (ISO 9001 and ISO 13485), and compliance with BS EN 1090, demonstrate an ongoing commitment to quality, and reassure our customers that our design and technical packages – with formal drawing approval prior to manufacture on all fabricated products – result in class-leading equipment for their facilities.”
Starkstrom clinical pendants reportedly offer ‘class-leading infection prevention’, supplying medical gases, power, and data, to critical hospital locations. Starkstrom says it is one of only a handful of companies manufacturing in the UK offering a full range of pendants, together with pneumatic and electromagnetic braking for the pendant arms. Service and after- sales are a key element of its philosophy, and the company provides whole-life support for its products nationwide, ‘giving our customers complete peace of mind’.
Starkstrom has seen considerable growth in demand for its infrastructure products manufactured in
Leicester – these include IPS systems, surgeons’
panels, and clinical pendants, for operating theatres, Endoscopy, Emergency, and Critical Care Departments. It said: “Our significant presence across the UK is driven by our experienced sales team engaging early in projects to support architects,
Starkstrom Ltd 33, Turn Street Syston
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info@starkstrom.com
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design consultants, M&E contractors, and clinical teams, taking them through every aspect of the design of their facility.”
Starkstrom is also the authorised distributor for KLS Martin operating lights and diathermy equipment; OPT Surgisystems operating tables, and the full range of Atmos Medical suction systems. And the company is part of the NHS Supply Chain Framework – Operating Theatres Equipment and Related Accessories and Services (
supplychain.nhs.uk).
Fire safety – especially in high-rise buildings, has assumed even greater prominence since 2017’s Grenfell Tower fire – which led the Government in England to commission Dame Judith Hackitt to lead a wide-ranging review to see what lessons could be learned and minimise the chances of any reoccurrence. While the resulting Independent review of building regulations and fire safety focused primarily on safety in high-rise residential buildings, some of the recommendations were also applicable to healthcare buildings. Dame Hackitt’s work led to new primary legislation in the form of the Building Safety Act 2022, and a sizeable quota of secondary legislation. As Maz Daoud, head of Fire Safety, NHS Estates, at NHS England, explains on pages 26-30, in 2022 NHS England undertook its own extensive scoping exercise, identifying three key areas in the HTM 05 series of Firecode for revision and reissue. In the first in a planned series of articles on the revised guidance, the former London firefighter and IHEEM Fire Safety Technical Platform Chair specifically considers new guidance on the management and maintenance of fire alarm systems. Tis includes the creation of a new role of Authorised Person (Fire Safety) – and a re-definition of the existing roles for Authorised Persons – namely Authorised Person (AP) fire safety training, AP fire safety maintenance, and AP fire safety risk assessment. Tere is also a comprehensive run-down of the role of the Authorised Person(s) (Fire Safety Maintenance), whose broad-ranging responsibilities includes briefing and liaising with design teams and project stakeholders, and receiving and reviewing proposed design and handover documentation, reviewing and commenting on proposed design variations from HTM 05-03 and BS 5839-1, and verifying that contractor accreditation and competence are valid and appropriate for specified works. Maz Daoud expertly picks out the
salient points, highlights the need for good communication between all parties, and considers key issues such as whether the weekly fire alarm test is in fact necessary in, say, a hospital with several thousand call points and numerous alarm zones. He explains that HTM 05-03 Part B introduces an opportunity for the responsible staff in complex healthcare premises to develop their own protocols for managing such systems’ maintenance, and for how they address false alarms and unwanted fire signals. His next article in HEJ will focus on HTM 05-03 Part A, which now solely covers fire safety training.
Jonathan Baillie,
Editor jonathanbaillie@
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