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Current affairs Case study – Cleone Foods
AN AUTOMATIC sprinkler system such as the one installed at Cleone Foods, a small, family run food manufacturing company in Birmingham, will reduce the risk to life and degree of damage and disruption in a fire event. The single site manufacturing and distribution facility, close to Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, produces Jamaican patties, a traditional Caribbean snack derived from a Cornish pasty.
Since the company was formed in 1988,
expansion has been rapid and it has achieved an excellent reputation, enabling it to secure significant contracts supplying leading national food retailers. With 70 staff running two shifts, there are fixed financial penalties in place for the company if it fails to satisfy its orders, which in the event of prolonged disruption would impact profitability, and worse still could affect the survival of the business. Simon Noble, project manager at Cleone
Foods Ltd explains: ‘We are a small food company supplying major supermarket chains and they are very big on maintaining continuity of supply. We have to keep them happy and cannot afford to have any disruption to our day to day operations. ‘As part of our continuity strategy, we have reviewed all of our internal and external
processes, and one of the areas we identified that could dramatically affect our business is that of a fire at our premises. To address this risk and effectively protect our business, thereby safeguarding jobs, we have installed sprinklers throughout the facility.’ To ensure continuity and productivity, a sprinkler system has been installed throughout the 1,000m2
site. Contrary to the myths which
exist concerning sprinklers, the site team understand well that in the event of fire only the sprinkler heads that are directly above the fire will be triggered. The water from the sprinkler heads will have the effect of containing or even extinguishing the fire without causing damage to non affected areas. The alarm and sprinkler systems are tested
weekly and servicing is completed once a year by a specialist contractor. The weekly test involves checking the water pressures, carrying out an alarm test and checking the interlocks of the fire alarm system. Further fire protection measures at the site include a full multi zone fire alarm with remote monitoring, which will automatically call the local fire and rescue service to attend in the case of an activation.
Major financial and equipment losses can be prevented by the inclusion of a sprinkler,
52 OCTOBER 2019
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