OUR SERVICES

Fire Safety Building Inspection

Fire safety building inspection should be part of a company’s approach to safety. Inspections are conducted as part of code enforcement help to ensure reasonable life safety condition within a structure. Inspections of any building frequently lead to identification of requirements for the maintenance of passive of fire protection measures of inspections, tests, defects, rectification, work and routine maintenance. Ongoing building inspection programmes are assumed to provide on positive effects on the fire and life safety conditions of building structures.

Fire Safety Building Inspections Objectives

·         Inspections which are intended to prevent fire fires from occurring are effective because the inspection identifies fire hazards that could cause fire allow a fire to develop or allow a fire to spread

·         Inspection determine proper installation operation and maintenance of fire protection features, systems and appliances within the building

·         Recording technical information on a building and its processing

·         Inspection provide an opportunity to educate the owners or occupant of a building about fire safety behavior and the need for adequate fire life safety conditions in the areas under control

Fire Safety Building Inspections

Shall cover the following building elements:

·         External elements and other physical elements

·         Structural elements

·         Fire safety elements

·         Drainage system

·         Unauthorized building works

Fire Safety Building Types

Occupancies normally inspected include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Safety Audit

A fire safety audit is a review of compliance of the safety provision in building. Fire safety audits are undertaken for a variety of reasons such as to show compliance with legislation building code and legislation. They might be also be undertaken to show due diligence pre-purchase of sale or as part of risk management program for insurance reasons as a gap analysis against or standards or as part of a periodic and ongoing audit programme.

The Purpose of Fire Safety Audit

·         The audits are used to check the current adequacy of fire components and equipments report on the expected performance and make recommendations as to compliance with fire safety legislation and requirement of providing a safe workplace.

·         To indicate compliances with statutory requirements as part of due diligence, pre-purchase of sale appraisal, risk management, insurance assessment, gap analysis against current legislation or standards or as per of comprehensive audit program.

Fire Safety Audits Shall be provided to the following broad range of Clients:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Building Fire Safety Surveys For Premises

Building surveys form the backbone of the fire safety strategy for managing the building stock owner the life-time of the building. The provision of fire safety surveys is vital to achieving efficient procurement and effective compliance with mandated policies and standards.

The Building Fire safety Surveys Objectives

·         To  obtain information required for fire fighting planning purpose

·         To obtain information on hazards substance, emergency correction of commonly occurring fire and life safety hazards

·         To assist business owners in identifying and achieving correction of commonly occurring fire safety hazards

·         To protect staff and property from the threat of fire.

Building Fire Safety Types

Shall be provided to:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Risk Assessment Services

Fire risk assessment can be defined as a broad term that could be applied to any activities that involves checking, measurement, evaluation and the real fire related performance of any fire system. The concept of the fire risk assessments is that the damage potential of a fire assessed and a judgment made on the acceptability of a particular level of the fire risk. The regulatory reform (Fire Safety Order of 2005) states that all employers must make suitable and sufficient assessments of the risk to which relevant persons are exposed.

Fire Risk Assessments Objectives

·         To identify fire hazards and people at risk

·         To remove or reduce the risk of those hazards causing harm to as low as is reasonably practicable

·         To determine what fire safety measures and management policies are necessary to ensure the safety of people in the building should occur by

·         Reducing the probability of fire starting

·         Ensuring that all occupants alerted and can leave premises safely its event of fire

·         Limiting the effects should a fire occur

Fire Risk Assessments Building type

Fire assessments services shall be provided to the following broad range of clients:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Safety Management Audit/ Review

Fire safety management is described as an ongoing process throughout the life cycle of a building. Fire safety Management can be the key factor in minimizing the risk of fire in buildings. Fire safety management review examines all aspects of the fire safety management within an organization. The intention of such a review is to provide assurance that fire safety management structure, fire safety, fire safety procedure, and other interactions with other disciplines is fit for the purpose. Fire safety management review activities that may be beyond the direct influence of the fire safety management team, whilst potentially detracting from the robust fire safety management review.

Fire Safety Management Audits/ Reviews

Occupancies normally carried out audits include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

SPRINKLER SYSTEM AUDIT AND INSPECTION

In an effort to help save water a sprinkler audit shows you how to use sprinkler system more effectively. An audit can help you learn about your sprinkler system more effectively. An audit can help you learn about your sprinkler system, identifying a leak and keep water more efficiently.

Sprinkler audits include

·         Visual inspection of each zone to identify problems

·         Tests that measure how water is being applied

·         Watering schedule guidance

The purpose of the sprinklers is to:

·         Prevent fire deaths

·         Reduce damages to property

·         Protect fire fighters

·         Reduce the impact of fire on the environment

·         Provide national resilience and business continuity supports

·         Promise flexibility in building design and ease of compliance with building regulations and fire safety legislation

Sprinkler System Audits

Occupancies normally carried out audits include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Risk Survey/ Audit

Risk surveying is a practical exercise of risk control measures subsequent to risk control subsequent to risk identification and analysis contacted with a view to limiting the risk of life and property losses from fire and other perils by identifying the occurrences and likely spread of any risk. Basically the main concern is to make sure that the insured work-force, premises, facilities, equipment, processes; operations from undesired consequences.

Aim of Risk Survey

·         Find out if the risk offered is acceptable

·         Help in determining appropriate rate to be charged

·         Make recommendations for the improvement of risk

·         Make a estimate of the maximum amount or percentage of the risk that is likely to be lost in one fire or any other losses

Fire Risk Audits/ survey

Occupancies normally carried out audits include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Safety Management System Audit

Safety management system audit is defined as a structured process of collecting independent information on the efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of the total health and safety management system and drawing up plan for collective action. Safety audit is normally carried out by outside team and will examine all facilities and activities of an organization from the angle of safety, assess the current level of prevention, protection and emergency management preparedness and subsequent prepare an action plan to upgrade safety inputs to avert mis-haps and limit consequences.

Safety management systems audit objectives:

·         To carry out a systemic, critical, appraisal of all potential hazards involving personnel, plant, services and operation methods and to ensure that safety and health systems fully satisfy legal requirements and those of the company’s written safety policy objectives and progress.,

Benefits of Safety audits are;

·         Identifies loss producing events

·         Assess the potential losses associated with the risk

·         Identifies measures to minimize losses

·         Identify system deficiency

Safety Management Systems Audit

Occupancies normally carried out audits include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Investigation

Fire investigation is an essential component in the development of the safety engineering as a discipline. Fire investigation assist in insurance claims determine cause of the fire and the reason for the fire spread and investigate the reason for failure of systems or products involved in a fire. Establishing the cause of the fire is an important issue to the person affected by the incident especially when legal or insurance considerations are involved.

The purpose of fire investigation is to:

·         Identify the origin and the cause of fire

·         To assess the potential hazards associated with the remaining debris, collecting samples for analysis

·         Recommend procedures for site clearance and removal of debris as to minimize environment impact

·         Obtain advice on fire protection detection and suppression to prevent future incidents

Fire Investigation

Occupancies normally carried out fire investigation include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Drills

Fire drills are useful means of reinforcing evaluation procedures and monitoring their effectiveness.  Fire drills are not always seriously considered by employers or managers are seen as unnecessary interruption to business.

Objectives of Fire drills

·         The purpose is to highlight problems such as the failure of occupancies to use all fire exits result in ordinate long evacuation time.

Fire drills

Occupancies normally carried out fire drills include:

·         Retail Chains

·         Offices and Commercial buildings

·         Public assembly buildings

·         Hospitals

·         Places of public entertainments

·         Industrial building

·         Other Occupancy

Fire Safety Legislative Advice

Most architects who seek fire safety advice will approach fire safety consultancies offering this service. It is essential that for architects to decide what service they need and the right consultancy to provide such a service. It may be that architects are only seeking someone to check their owns designs for legislative compliance but may be needed to use consultants who are capable if the much more demanding task of preparing a full fire engineering solution to an unusual design problem

Fire Safety advice would be sought on:

·         Fire risk assessment and review

·         Fire safety training

·         Provision of fire safety advice

·         Identification and assessment of fire risk

·         Prioritizing improvements

·         Fire incident investigation

·         Fire safety advice on existing and new building

·         Advised on current fire safety legislation

·         Developing corporate and local fire safety management policy procedures

·         Advising on fire safety competency

·         Carrying out auditing, monitoring and review projects and the preparation of reports

·         Aspects of fire safety

·         Fire safety management practices.

Portables Fire Extinguishers recharging and Maintenance Services

The proper use of portable fire extinguishers can extinguish many fires while they are still small. You should be aware, however, that the Harare Fire Brigade department should be notified without delay as soon as any fire is discovered.

Harare Fire Brigade department regulates the number, type, and placement of the portable fire extinguishers that are required for any building. These portable fire extinguishers are an important part of an overall fire safety program. It is important to keep in mind that the successful use of portable fire extinguishers depends on the following:

·         The portable fire extinguishers are properly located and in working order

·         The portable fire extinguishers are of the correct type

·         The fire discovered  by persons who are ready, willing, and able to use the portable fire extinguishers

Also we should know that portable fire extinguishers are valuable for immediate use on small fires. They contain a limited amount of extinguishers material and need used properly so that this material is not wasted.