Posted By Greg Burgess Mark Guidance on this is given in Fire Safety an Employer's Guide. It states that fire detection and fire warning systems including self-contained smoke alarms and manually operated devices should be tested weekly. Where there is a fire certificate of course it will most likely state specific testing regimes within the certificate. Greg

Posted By shaun mckeever British Standard 5839 Part 1 recommends that a fire alarm installed to the Standard should be tested on a weekly basis. It is not a legal requirement purely a recommendation. If you have been issued with a fire certificate the conditions of the fire certificate may require you to maintain the fire alarm system in accordance with the British Standard, that is a legal requirement. A test on such a small system should only last a few seconds and does not require you to evacuate the building so I personally can't see the problem with a weekly test. Any test you conduct should be recorded in a fire log book.