Fire Extinguisher Servicing

Regular maintenance is essential with safety products like extinguishers

British Standard Code of Practice BS 5306 Part 3 recommends that your fire extinguishers are serviced annually to ensure that they will always function in an emergency. The range of fire extinguishers supplied by PASS will provide many years of reliable fire protection, but must be properly maintained and regularly serviced by a competent engineer. PASS engineers all work towards FIA Qualifications and receive regular refresher training as is required by the FIA.

Why pay a call out charge for Fire Extinguisher Inspection and Maintenance when this can be performed while your Portable Appliance Testing or Emergency Lighting Testing and Fixed Wire Inspection is performed?

By combining services you will typically save over 50% of your total costs. As an added benefit you will also be lowering your carbon footprint by having these important inspections performed together, ensuring you have one visit and one invoice.

What is the difference between a fire extinguisher inspection and fire extinguisher maintenance?

Inspection

An inspection is a “quick check” to give reasonable assurance that a fire extinguisher is fully charged and operable. The value of an inspection lies in the frequency, regularity and thoroughness of its completion. The frequency will vary depending on the needs of the situation. Inspections should always be conducted when extinguishers are initially placed in service and thereafter at approximately 30-day intervals.

Maintenance

Fire extinguishers should be maintained at regular intervals, at least once a year by a suitably trained and experienced engineer. Maintenance is a “thorough check” of the extinguisher, it is intended to give maximum assurance that an extinguisher will operate effectively and safely. It includes a thorough examination and any necessary repair, recharging or replacement. It will normally reveal the need for hydrostatic testing of an extinguisher.

We carry out Fire extinguisher servicing in the following areas;

Central London, South London, North London, Essex, Wales, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Teesside and Scotland. We also cover the whole of the North East including, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Sheffield, County Durham, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, Billingham, Peterlee, Cleveland and North Yorkshire.