UNICEF, the United Nation’s advocate for children, is represented in 190 countries around the world. They carry out crucial work in eradicating child diseases such as Polio and are trying to stop female genital cutting in countries such as Senegal. Their international representations have of course to be protected against fire risk. This week we [...]
Once you have reached the decision to protect your home and it’s occupants from fire by purchasing smoke alarms the dilemma begins. Which alarm should you buy and where should you install it? To help you overcome this dilema we have produced a guide that will help to explain the different types of alarm and [...]
Our customer survey winner for March was from Hertfordshire. Customers are asked to fill out a customer survey questionnaire after purchasing from our website and each month a winner is selected at random. The lucky participant wins £25 worth of ‘Love2Shop’ vouchers. ‘Love2Shop’ is a highstreet gift voucher that is accepted by over 80 leading [...]
A customer of ours had recently moved house. The house had no existing smoke alarms installed, prompting the customer to order a series of interlinking smoke alarms to protect himself and his family. The alarms arrived and our customer decided to put the installation of the alarms off for a few days. After all, fires [...]
This week, another CO alarm, supplied by Safelincs Ltd on behalf of Kirklees Council, detected a carbon monoxide leak that resulted from a faulty gas fire appliance. The CO alarm began to sound, prompting the occupants to act and call out a service engineer who confirmed the CO in the air. The gas fire was [...]
Ringtail, Safelincs’ supplier of Emergency Lighting products have developed a full range of LED emergency lights to meet the future requirements for low energy, high efficiency and environmental friendly emergency lights. There are many advantages associated with LEDs, the main ones being reliability and longevity. A typical high-power LED will realise 10 years maintenance free [...]
In 2009 London courts handed out fines of over £1m to companies, large and small, as well as to individuals due to breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. These figures show that courts are taking any breaches of this order very seriously. In two cases people were even given jail sentences. If you [...]
From 1.6.2010 Safelincs in France will be represented by a new French distributor, Epsylone Sarl. Epsylone has over 5 years experience in fire safety products retail in France and operates several fire safety websites. Epsylone will eventually retail most of Safelincs’ 1500+ different fire safety products through its own websites and retail channels as well [...]
Fire extinguishers come in different types, not all types are suitable for all categories of fires, and in fact most have only one or two applications. Many people find that when trying to specify types of extinguisher they run into problems. We often find that without some advice money is wasted on inappropriate fire extinguishers. [...]
