Commercial smoke detectors are a crucial part of safety and security of both property and life. As such it is therefore an Australian government mandate to have smoke alarms with these specifics:
- Features of the smoke alarm
- The number of smoke alarms that needs to be installed in your property
- Where the smoke alarms need to be positioned in order for it to properly alert everyone in the property
Fire safety in commercial properties
To further highlight the importance of smoke alarms, it is mandated that in buildings constructed before July 1994 must comply with Regulation 1212-1217 must have smoke alarms as safety precautions, and the Victorian Building Act of 199 along with the Building Regulation Act of 2006 states that buildings made after July 199 have additional safety procedures you must comply with.
As an example, buildings erected after 199 must submit a building's certificate of occupancy and it has a fully functional working fire alarm system, stairwells, fire exits and smoke alarms.
Smoke alarm installation in offices
Offices are a hub where people, important activities and transactions take place so fire safety to its occupants and the property contained within office buildings are incredibly necessary to protect and so smoke alarms are a non-negotiable necessity for these kinds of commercial areas and those smoke alarms must be checked for full functionality regularly.
It is best-practice to install smoke alarms away from doors, windows or ducts because these areas can impede proper smoke alarm function.
Do not put stickers or paint over your smoke alarm either as these can cause the alarms to malfunction as well.
Smoke alarms for storage and basement areas
Often neglected for more obvious spots, storage and basements are in fact, places where there should definitely be smoke alarms because they are places where fires can start, especially if flammable materials are stored there. What's more, because these are low traffic areas, it is important for people close by to be alerted of any fire that might be starting in the storage or basement. This goes for stairwells as well which are isolated spots that are important for evacuation and must always be accessible.
Smoke alarms in parking spaces
Yet another often neglected area are parking spaces. Many of you might have heard of the Chadstone Shopping Centre cars going up in flames. Such fire incidents could have been avoided by properly working smoke alarms installed and maintained in the parking area.
Installing smoke detectors in parking areas need to be done by an expert. Smoke alarms in parking areas is tricky, particulates could trigger false alarms so it should be installed in an area of the parking space that has adequate ventilation.
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