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Posted By Mark Robert Devlin
Do any particular regulations stipulate that the fire alarm must be tested on a weekly basis. We are situated in a low risk (ie office building, no chemcals, no shift workers, no members of public and very few visitors) with only 4 alarm points, one on each floor.
I have been told that we must do it weekly - is this the case?
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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
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Posted By Laurie
Mark
You do not need to test every call point weekly, just the system as a whole, using a different call point each week. Ideally you should do this on a set day, at a set time, to lessen the chances of confusion with a genuine alarm.
In your case you will cover all your call points over a four week period, but if you have a lot of call points you should cover all your call points over an eighteen week period i.e if you have 36 points you should test two a week
Laurie
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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.
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