Fire & Safety Fire safety– a cover up
As fire detector technology constantly evolves, so do the standards, changing in order to keep up with the latest developments. ESP’s sales director, Neil Baldwin, looks at the revised BS 5839-1:2017 standard, to help wholesalers understand the changes.
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S 5839-1:2017 fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings standard provides recommendations for the
planning, design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of fire detection and fire alarm systems in and around non-domestic premises. The standard is there for anyone involved in the design and planning of fire detection and alarm systems, as well as installation and commissioning specialists. The BS5839-1 revision adopts the latest
industry thinking and new technologies, including added guidance on the use of call points and multi-sensor fire detectors, with the aim of reducing the incidence of false alarms.
The new standard The main change relates to manual call points. All manual call points must have some variety of protective cover. This should help prevent accidental activation from impact as well as force users of the fire alarm system to lift the cover before activation, thereby adding an extra action to the process of pressing the alarm. This should
help reduce the number of times the button is pressed accidentally and make anyone who intends to push the manual call point (whether maliciously or not) to think about whether the alarm actually should be triggered.
Of course, covers for manual call points are now not new pieces of equipment, and many manufacturers have been producing them for some time. However, the new thing to remember is that any new installation work must
32 | electrical wholesalerFebruary 2019
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