Fire Handbook

Fire Confederation of Southern Africa
April 2006, News & Events
The Fire Confederation of Southern Africa was established in 2005. Historically, the fire industry has been sub-divided through various associations with limited communication between them, leading to ...

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Bits 'n bytes
July 2005, Technews Publishing, Fire & Safety
Welcome to this, the first Fire Handbook. Based on the success of the Access Control Handbook published by Hi-Tech Security Solutions late in 2004, this Handbook is designed not so much to highlight ...

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Fire terminology
July 2005, Fire & Safety
For the benefit of our readers who may become involved with fire terminology and who may want clarification of expressions used, we list below internationally accepted definitions of some of the more ...

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A fire prevention inspection guide
July 2005, Fire & Safety
Risk evaluation in industry defines high risk areas and highlights weaknesses within a fire defence system. The continuing monitoring of fire safety standards in industry is paramount if they are to be ...

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Alien Systems & Technologies: innovating new solutions
July 2005, Alien Systems & Technology , Fire & Safety
Since 1999, from its headquarters in Johannesburg, Alien Systems & Technologies (AST) with its highly skilled work force, has established itself as a major fire engineering manufacturer and supplier across ...

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Halon decommissioning
July 2005, Fire & Safety
Halon 1301 and 1211 fire suppression agent is still being used throughout South Africa and Africa in active fire systems protecting valuable assets and equipment. In 1994 Halon was banned by the Montreal ...

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Very early warning smoke detection - why and how it is applied to mission-critical facilities
July 2005, Fire & Safety
Mission-critical refers to the operations that are critical to an organisation's ability to carry out its mission. In other words, mission-critical operations are those operations that are essential to ...

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Why enclosure integrity testing for fixed fire-extinguishing systems?
July 2005, Alien Systems & Technology , Fire & Safety
Fixed fire extinguishing systems are designed in accordance with two international standards, namely the NFPA 2001 (Standard on Clean Agent fixed fire extinguishing systems), or ISO 14520 (Gaseous fire-extinguishing ...

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Electrical fires - it is your fault
July 2005, Fire & Safety
Electrical faults and the misuse of electrical equipment feature high on the list of fire causes in South Africa. Over the last four years just over 24% of fires have been attributed to electrical equipment ...

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Fire alarm panels
July 2005, Fire & Safety
In any large organisation, such as hospitals, hotels, mines, aircraft hangers, factories and large buildings, the fire alarm system is a critical piece of equipment. A fully functional fire alarm panel ...

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Lightning warning systems
July 2005, Innopro (Div. of Engenamic), Fire & Safety
Lightning poses particular and potentially serious threats to personnel working or deployed in exposed areas, for example in the mining, agricultural, aviation, sports, forestry, petrochemical, telecommunications ...

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Lots of gas at Vodaworld
July 2005, Sensor Special Risk Technologies, Fire & Safety
Vodacom Midrand has recently undergone a major revamp of its fire protection in the cellphone switching centre in the Vodaworld complex. The need to efficiently protect a major switching centre of this ...

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Records protection guidelines
July 2005, Fire & Safety
When a fire occurs, most people tend to consider its effects from the point of view of direct physical damage only. However, some time after a fire the inevitable consequential losses begin to be felt. ...

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Symbolic safety signs guidelines
July 2005, Fire & Safety
Introduction Signs are used in buildings for imparting information to the occupants which is not obvious or apparent in any other way. Safety signs are a particular type of such signs which are displayed ...

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