You may be a new business start-up that therefore needs to research all of those different aspects of fire safety with which you will need to comply. Alternatively, you may be running a more established business that requires a more up-to-date system. Either way, when you are browsing the many fire alarms that are available on the market, it’s so easy to feel overwhelmed. Of course, you’re certainly likely to appreciate that the right choice of fire detection system can make the difference between life and death, so which system would best suit your own office?
Indeed, when you searching for fire alarm systems, you have a choice of everything from flame detectors and manual pull stations to heat and smoke detectors. The latter type of alarm is highly sensitive, and will alert you as soon as it detects smoke. Smoke detectors that are designed for commercial purposes do differ from home detectors, however, in that rather than an alarm being sent directly from the detector, a signal to sent to a wider system.
If there’s one potential drawback with a smoke detector, however, it’s that it can produce plenty of false alarms, which is why you may prefer to invest in a fire detector that instead detects the light that flames give off. Or you may prefer to opt for a heat detector, which sends a signal in response to an extreme rise in temperature.
There is also a wide range of manual fire alarms to choose from, such as button alarms, pull alarms and break glass stations. But of course, the big downside of these fire alarm systems is that they do depend on somebody actually discovering the fire and suitably activating the system to alert those working elsewhere on the premises.
Finally, it’s also important to ensure that your chosen system uses both a visual and aural means of alerting those in the building.