In Australia, a fire sprinkler water supply flow test ensures system effectiveness by verifying water supply capacity, assessing system performance, ensuring compliance with standards, identifying deterioration, documenting system performance, and verifying modifications. This ensures fire protection systems remain reliable, effective, and compliant with Australian regulations.
This article outlines crucial steps for fire contractors in Australia to identify and address vulnerabilities in automatic fire sprinkler heads, ensuring compliance with AS 1851 and leveraging international recall information to enhance fire safety. The information in this article may also be used in other countries for the basis of identifying sprinkler heads that are subject to a mandatory or voluntary product recall.
If you are considering replacing an automatic (wet pipe) fire sprinkler system alarm valve then we need certain information to make sure we can procure the correct replacement. In this article we discuss what information we need and the process for replacement.
A water supply proving test is a functional test of the water supply of an automatic fire sprinkler system or fire hydrant system to validate the required performance (duty) of the water supply. This test is used to determine if there has been any degredation in the water supply that could adversely affect the performance of the water supply between tests, placing the occupants of the building at risk from fire.
Fire sprinkler heads in kitchen hoods and exhaust ducts are required to be inspected every year for an excessive accumulation of grease or any other foreign matter. Checking these fire sprinkler heads is a task that is not regularly completed by inspectors let alone even knowing where these sprinkler heads are located in a building. In this article we will explain what are the requirements and how to identify sprinkler heads that need to be replaced.
Australian Standard AS2118.1 specifies the requirements for the design, installation and commissioning of automatic fire sprinkler systems in buildings, including areas around commercial type cooking equipment in kitchens and associated ventilation systems. Where the cooking equipment includes a deep fat fryer, there are other considerations that installers and maintainers MUST take into consideration.
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.
According to Australian Standard AS2118, there are an array of automatic fire sprinkler head types that are used for a wide variety of applications.
2020 will go down as a year like no other with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affecting every community across the globe. The first line of defence is social distancing, face masks and good hygiene. Many businesses have substantially increased their reserves of hand sanitizer and we have been asked the question, does this place our building at an increased fire risk?
In Victoria, a water flow switch in a wet pipe automatic fire sprinkler system may trigger a fire brigade attendance, but not always. This article seeks to explain why not all flow switches call the brigade and why others do.