Monday 30th May to Sunday 5th June marks Boat Fire Safety Week, where owners of boats are being encouraged to think about the fire safety of their vessel. Because of the nature of boats, the risks involved can be even greater than, for instance, fire safety in the home or workplace, due to things like [...]
Planning your emergency lighting can be quite daunting and appear very complicated. We have developed an emergency lighting guide to help with all the issues of planning where to install your emergency lights. The guide has been developed through answering customer questions on emergency lighting installation, ensuring that we are answering the questions you want [...]
Photoluminescent or ‘glow-in-the-dark’ signs are a low-cost method of providing strong guidance and direction in the event of a power failure at night. They work in addition to the statutory emergency lighting required. Good photoluminescent signs really glow and stand out after the lighting power supply has failed which helps to reduce confusion and lack [...]
Occasionally, you may come across the practice of online fire extinguisher retailers offering pre-serviced fire extinguishers. What they offer is the inspection of the extinguisher in their warehouse and the addition of a maintenance label on the extinguisher. Sometimes they even claim that this service is in accordance to BS5306. However, this practice is NOT [...]
One of Safelincs’ suppliers with top quality marks is Securefast, a supplier of exit door related hardware such as panic bars (touch bars) and panic bolts. Securefast launched recently a new Touch Bar and Electrical Touch Bar range which we would like to present. The 600 Series Touch Bar Range is quick and easy to [...]
A few fire safety products such as fire extinguishers and ionisation smoke alarms are classified as dangerous goods and require special handling in transit to our customers. Safelincs has three staff members formally trained as specialists for dangerous goods, being able to assess, prepare, package and declare shipments correctly to avoid the risk of interception [...]
The Dorgard is one of our most popular products. It helps our customers to stay legally compliant and at the same time keeps fire doors open when there are periods of high footfall or when the temperature gets stifling during the summer. The Dorgard comes with a very handy and thorough manual. Nevertheless, we do get [...]
We provide an export service for any customers requiring fire safety products overseas. Do you want to purchase fire escape hoods, fire extinguishers, fire escape ladders, smoke alarms or emergency lighting to be shipped to you anywhere in the world? Safelincs is here to help. As well as being able to cater for fire safety [...]
Our customers regularly buy fire escape ladders from us for their loft extensions. We can offer them a broad selection of fire escape ladders suited for the task. When escaping from a gable end you can choose the same fire escape ladders as for ordinary fire escape windows. However, when escaping over an angled roof [...]
Now that the weather is getting warm many offices will be feeling hot and stuffy. The natural reaction to this is to open doors and windows to increase the air circulation. However, holding self-closing fire doors open with extinguishers and other ‘handy’ objects stops fire doors closing when the fire alarm sounds. This is not [...]
