Identification of installed Essential Safety Measures

Is your Fire Safety Schedule correct?

Over the course of our experience, Fire Matrix has witnessed time and time again where Fire Safety Schedule show incorrect performance Standards listed again essential fire measures or have been upgraded to a more recent version of standard, without taking the whole building into account.

For example; In the case of retail shopping centres which receive frequent makeovers and upgrades throughout Mall areas, the Emergency Lighting and Exit Signage measures have been upgraded to recent installation codes, however all the retail tenancies EEL have remained as original. A single listing on the Fire Safety Schedule shows only the updated installation codes for EEL.

The absence of a listing for the Retail Tenancies EEL to the older standard will cause problems when assessed by an APFS in the future and finds that the Tenancy EEL is non-compliant to the latest codes.

Correctly amending the Fire Safety Schedule to accommodate the two EEL installation codes in differing areas of the building is good control of the buildings assets and sets excellent retention of baseline data to avoid confusion, and cost, in the future.

Fire Matrix has experience in being able to clarify and correctly segregate essential fire measures on complex buildings such as this.