Maintenance of Fire Protection Systems & Equipment

Across Australia the routine servicing of fire protection systems and equipment is a statutory obligation. This means that building owners and occupiers are required to ensure that the fire safety or essential safety measures in their buildings are working and free from critical defects.

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Undertaken correctly the maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment requires an extensive knowledge of the 13 categories of essential safety measures and 56 subcategories.

There are many people and companies that may be able to deliver a couple of these services correctly however there are very few who have the skills, knowledge, experience and systems to deliver most of these services to ensure compliance.

  1. Building Fire Integrity
  2. Means of Egress
  3. Fire Fighting Services & Equipment
  4. Lighting
  5. Signs
  6. Automatic Fire Detection & Alarm Systems
  7. Occupant Warning Systems
  8. Air Handling Systems
  9. Mechanical Ventilation
  10. Lifts
  11. Standby Power Systems
  12. Building Clearance & Fire Appliances
  13. Building Use & Application

Trusting your fire safety to an individual or company who may not have the skills, knowledge, experience and systems to conduct the routine servicing is placing the occupants of the building at risk from fire. A risk building owners, occupiers and facility managers cannot afford to take.

At Firewize we help discerning building owners and managers maintain fire systems & equipment to save people & buildings from fire for over 20 years.

Our experienced team includes industry professionals who provide survey, design, installation, commissioning, inspection, testing and maintenance of fire and essential safety measures.

To achieve the safe consistent results necessary to help building owners meet their compliance obligations, we have invested heavily in carefully prepared systems, checklists, great people and training.

We often create content on the fire protection industry which is in response to questions that arise from our own team or are answers to our customers questions.

  • Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems

    A wet pipe automatic fire sprinkler system comprises a series of individual components including; Pipe, Stop Valve, Alarm Valve, Fire Sprinkler (head), Alarm Test Valve and Motorised Alarm Bell (Gong). These systems contain water under pressure that is released through the activation of a sprinkler head (a type of valve) to control or suppress the spread of fire.

  • Fire Hydrant Systems

    In a building, a fire hydrant system is a safety measure or emergency equipment required in some buildings that comprises a series of components that when assembled together provide a source of water to assist fire authorities in a fire.

  • How to complete your Annual Essential Safety Measures Report ("AESMR")

    An Annual Essential Safety Measures Report ("AESMR") is a document set out in the Regulation 224 of the Building Regulations (VIC) 1993 and the Victoria Government Gazette G 37, September 12, 2019. An AESMR must be completed each year within 28 days before the anniversary of the first occupancy permit or maintenance determination for the building. If there is no occupancy permit or maintenance determination, then the AESMR must be prepared within 28 days before 13 June each year.

  • What is a fire sprinkler head shield or baffle plate?

    A fire sprinkler head shield or baffle plate ("baffle") is a device (typically made of sheet metal) that is used to prevent the first operating sprinkler from wetting (and cooling) the lower or adjacent fire sprinkler heads.

  • How does a automatic fire sprinkler head work?

    An automatic fire sprinkler system head is a valve, that when the temperature sensitive bulb reaches its predetermined fixed temperature, expands, breaks and then allows the free flow flow of water.