Fire protection expert Kai Richards, from Gem Fire Service, explains how you should be protecting your business.
What is your most popular fire protection system?
Most of our installation work is either installing sprinkler systems or fire detection systems. However, our testing and maintenance ranges from people with single extinguishers in a tenancy through to entire business parks.
Do you test everything in one visit?
Where possible we try to minimise the amount of visits and therefore disruptions to clients. However, we employ specialists in each field to perform the various testing, so sometimes multiple visits are required to ensure the right qualified person performs each job.
What’s so important about testing and reporting to relevant Australian Standards?
It is to ensure you are compliant with Australian Standards and will pass a council inspection. Another is for WH&S compliance. But the main reason to get your systems tested, we believe, is so that in the event of an emergency they will operate as intended and will give the best chance of personnel and property surviving an emergency.
What makes you unique?
One of the biggest points of difference to our competitors is our online maintenance platform. All our staff are equipped with tablets when they perform their testing and maintenance, which has allowed us to streamline our service. This makes management easier for clients and the results are accessible within hours.
GEM FIRE SERVICE
A: 14 Jack St, Carrum Downs
T: 1300 134 170
W: gemfire.com.au