• FIRE SAFETY ORDER COMPLIANCE SURVEYS

    The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, or RR(FS)O, as it’s commonly known, applies to all non-domestic premises in England and Wales. This includes the communal areas of blocks of flats and houses of multiple occupation (HMOs). It applies to virtually all premises, and covers nearly every type of building, structure and open space.

    The RR(FS)O defines the “Responsible Person”. This is the person who owns the premises or business or the person with control over the premises, business or activity. The Responsible Person must carry out a Fire Risk Assessment, produce a policy, develop procedures (particularly with regard to evacuation), provide staff training and carry out fire drills.

    The Responsible Person must implement appropriate fire safety measures to minimise the risk to life from fire, i.e. they must provide and maintain clear means of escape, signs, notices, emergency lighting, fire detection and alarm, and means of firefighting (extinguishers).

    We can carry out Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) for you with our qualified and experienced specialist risk assessors. We can also provide advice on compliance with the RR(FS)O and services to ensure you remain compliant with the law.

    The RR(FS)O states the Responsible Person must appoint Competent Persons to carry out various tasks associated with fire safety. It’s the Responsible Person’s duty to ensure anyone appointed to install or maintain fire safety products and systems is competent. Third party accreditation, i.e. LPS1014 or BAFE SP203 Approval proves this competence.

    At Senseco we are LPS1014 certificated for fire detection and alarm systems. We only install third party-approved products and systems. Appointing us for your fire safety needs ensures you are compliant with the law.

    The following page is a transcript from the Government’s guidance notes which shows the importance of third party certification to prove compliance:

    “Fire protection products and related services should be fit for their purpose and properly installed and maintained in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions or the relevant British Standard.

    Third party certification schemes for fire protection products and related services are an effective means of providing the fullest possible assurances, offering a level of quality, reliability and safety that non-certificated products may lack. This does not mean goods and services that are not third party approved are less reliable, but there is no obvious way in which this can be demonstrated.

    Third party quality assurance can offer great comfort to employers, both as a means of satisfying you that the goods and services you have purchased are fit for purpose, and as a means of demonstrating that you have complied with the law.”

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    Somerset House

    Somerset House is a heritage property dating back to 1547 in the heart of London. Although it is well known for it’s outdoor skating rink at Christmas and open air concerts in the summer, it has many other uses and accommodates many other tenants. It hosts the UK’s largest creative community working globally across art, technology, business and social enterprise.

    The South Wing of Somerset House had a mix of hard wired fire detection system, an obsolete radio / wireless fire detection system and many aspiration systems, most no longeroperational. The project was to replace all of the systems in the South Wing with a single fire detection system for all areas and provide graphical representation of this wing and two other wings with legacy systems on a single graphics platform.

    This was all to be carried out within a listed building with mixed use and different tenants with minimal disruption to day to day operations.

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    Castle Mall

    Located in the centre of Norwich City, Castle Mall shopping centre comprises of 60 stores and food outlets, across five levels of retail and leisure, including an 8-screen Vue cinema. The centre also boasts a 790 space multi-storey car park.

    The fire detection and alarm system installed in the shopping centre was a Honeywell FC90 system, which was closed protocol and had reached the end of its working life. A replacement system was therefore needed to provide a modern supportable system for the shopping centre.

    This is a working shopping centre so minimal disruption to the operation of the shopping centre, retailers and shoppers was of paramount importance.

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    Uniper Enfield

    Uniper’s portfolio combines large-scale power generation and management of energy supply chains. Uniper’s former parent company was E.ON, who now focus on the new energy world.

    Uniper Power Station in Enfield had fire, suppression and voice alarm systems that had reached the end of their serviceable life.  They needed modern control equipment which would combine controls for different extinguishing systems into a centralised control station.  The extinguishing systems themselves also needed replacing or updating.

    Senseco were chosen to provide a bespoke solution providing controls and upgrades for gas extinguishing, water mist and deluge systems along with a replacement voice alarm rack.  Our power station expertise and ability to provide flexible, custom built solutions to meet Uniper’s needs were key to the project.

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