Maintaining a fire log book is the easiest way to demonstrate you have managed your fire safety responsibilities

Wall mounted log book holders are ideal for keeping the fire log book adjecant to the fire alarm control panel in reception areas, for easy inspection by visiting service engineers, and fire brigade authorities

Maintaining a Fire Log Book is a recommendaion of British Standard, and is also considered best practice.  If you ever had a fire at your site, you could demonstrate to your insurance company, the fire brigade or even a court of law that you effectively managed your fire safety responsibilities.

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Maintaining a fire log book means that your fire alarm / fire extinguisher service engineers have full access to the history of your equipment on site.  Maintaining a fire log book is also a recommendation in the HM Government Guidance Notes supporting the new fire legislation out in October 2006.

Chubb Fire's log book is designed for easy record keeping and contains advice and handy reference guides to user's responsibilities.  The content includes spaces to record equipment details, as well as logs of daily visual inspections, weekly tests and checks, monthly tests and checks, six monthly and annual service visits and inspections for the following:

• Employers details
• Employees and working conditions
• Staff training
• Means of escape
• Fire doors
• Emergency lighting
• Sprinkler systems
• Fire detection and alarm systems
• Fire extinguishers
• Hose reels and hydrants
• Hot works
• Fixed fire fighting installations
• Inspections and visits by fire authorities

Managing False Alarms

Changes to the British Standard BS5839 a few years back now requires users of an automatic fire detection and alarm system to not only log that there has been a false alarm on the system, but also to categorise the type of false alarm.  This is also a requirement of the new CFOA Policy on the Fire Brigades response to false alarms generated by remotely monitored fire alarm systems.  Click here for more information on the CFOA policy.

False alarms are classified as:

Unwanted alarms – alarms caused by fumes from cooking, steam, tobacco, dust, insects, etc

Equipment False Alarms – alarms due to faults with the equipment

Malicious False Alarms – alarms arising from a malicious use of a call point

False Alarms with good intent – these occur when an individual suspects there is a real fire and raises the alarm

Unknown – where the cause of the false alarm is not certain

Listing the types of false alarms in your log book will aid the investigation in to the cause.

Chubb Fire’s Log Book was updated to include the new sections to correctly record unwanted alarms.

fire log book holders

A perspex or metal wall mounted log book holder, ideal for keeping the fire log book adjecant to the fire alarm control panel in reception areas, for easy inspection by visiting service engineers, and fire brigade authorities.