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Exercise your "Duty of Care" by ensuring you employ a "competent fire safety contractor"
Our Quality Assurance is Your Quality Assurance !
Intrinsic to the new Regulatory Reform Fire Safety order 2005, is the need for end users or “the responsible person” to ensure the his fire safety contractors are “competent”
Section 8 of each of the eleven guidance documents clearly states:
(Excerpt from section 8)
“Third party quality assurance can offer comfort, both as a means
of satisfying you that goods and services you have purchased are
fit for purpose, and as a means of demonstrating that you have complied with the law.”
WHY TAKE THE RISK OF DELIBERATELY EMPLOYING
A NON QUALITY ASSURED COMPANY TO DO YOUR FIRE SAFETY WORK ?
Outlined below is an explanation on the various quality schemes which are to be regarded as “the” standards to be achieved to Prove Competency.
Our Credentials and your peace of mind explained
We have invested in third party accreditation ISO 9001 – 2009 and BAFE industry specific schemes as below:
ISO 9001 Quality Assurance
We are third party audited by the British Standards Institute. This covers and audits the administration procedures within our business. The BSI is used in the fire industry because of the expertise of the auditors who work closely with BAFE.
British Approval for Fire Equipment BAFE
Widely acknowledged as the most prestigious association in the fire protection industry. Recognised by most insurance companies, Fire authorities and government bodies. Affiliated companies are monitored, must have and maintain ISO 9001 Quality Assurance and be registered as a British Standard registered firm.
BAFE is supported and endorsed by the following organisations
British Standards Institute Registered Firm
BSI registered for the Contract Maintenance of Portable Fire Extinguishers. This confirms we have been independently checked and audited by the BSI for the quality of our extinguisher service procedures.
Independent Fire Engineering & Distributors Association
The largest independent Fire extinguisher association set up as a forum for local companies to promote ethical commercial practices.
The Independent Fire Engineering and Distributors Association was founded in 1989 as the independent representative body of fire trade companies. Unaligned to manufacturers our major role is to promote quality standards and professionalism in service delivery and the distribution of fire protection products. To promote these benefits to Government Departments, Fire Authorities, Insurance Companies, end users and other fire trade companies. To represent the fire trade at Government level in respect of Legislation and British and European Standards Committees covering all aspects of fire protection.
Link to IFEDA web site
Link to the IFEDA news letters
Link to the IFEDA constitution
We are not only proud members of IFEDA, but have two people represented on the national committee, our M.D. and our Fire Alarm Manager. Through this our M.D. also works on the British Standards committee for fire extinguishers principally covering BS 5306 Pt3 and BS 5306 Pt8.
Fully insured
As a responsible company, we carry full commercial insurance, covering all aspects of our business.
Public Liability
Employee liability
Efficacy, professional indemnity policy
When you put your trust in a company to provide a service, you need to know the technical liabilities are taken care of.
Established 1990, 4000+ clients and counting
Companies come and go!! With a history of thousands of customers on regular service in Cornwall, we have established a reputation for Quality, Economy & Good Service, which means you, can enjoy the benefit of our experience.
BAFE SP 101 Modular Scheme for the Contract Maintenance of Portable Fire Extinguishers
A prerequisite for implementing this scheme is having ISO 9001; this objective of the scheme is to provide a quality assurance process for the service of portable fire equipment. This ensures the service meets the requirements of the Fire and Rescue Authorities, the Legal requirements of fire laws and commercial insurance companies.
More information on BAFE scheme SP 101
BAFE ST 104 Modular Scheme for Service Technicians working to Contract Maintenance of Portable Fire Extinguishers
A prerequisite for implementing this scheme is having ISO 9001; the employing firm must implement BAFE module SP 101 (above) this module is designed to be applied to individual Technician Personnel / Engineers, it ensures they are periodically audited by BAFE as a third party inspection.
More information of Bafe scheme ST 104
BAFE SP203 Modular Scheme for Fire Alarm, Detection & Suppression Systems
The modular scheme was written and developed by a board of stake holders drawn from all quarters of the industry, Chaired by the British Fire Protection Systems Association (now the Fire Industry Association (FIA)) and was four years in its development prior to its official launch in July of 2002.
BAFE's newest scheme objective is to provide a means by which, fire protection system users and regulatory authorities can be confident that the companies providing the design, installation, commissioning, handover and maintenance of such system have processes in place to effectively undertake such activities within their defined scope of work.
The scheme has been split into four modules, the intention of this is to ensure that you only gain BAFE registration for the modules in which you are competent to work within. The four modules are:-
Like other BAFE schemes a certificate is the basis upon which confidence is built. At the end of each modular stage a certificate can be issued by the BAFE listed company, so if there are four different companies involved in the complete process on one premises then you would end up with four certificates from each of the respective organisations. The opposite could also be true and one company could be undertaking the work on all four modules in which case you would only end up with one certificate, but this would relate to all of the modules.
The reality will probably be some where in between the two scenarios identified above. Typically with a new building project where the design, commissioning and maintenance is likely to be provided by a specialist fire alarm company and the installation being undertaken by an electrical contractor.
More information on BAFE scheme SP 203
ITS CLEAR, WHY TAKE THE RISK OF DELIBERATELY EMPLOYING A NON QUALITY ASSURED COMPANY TO INSTALL OR MAINTAIN YOUR FIRE SYSTEMS ?
The difference in price is often negligible......
But the long term cost can be enormous ?
