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    We understand safety is your number one priority. This is why our range of Fire Safety services provide assurance as to the state of your buildings. Our ‘hands on’ experts work with you to survey and investigate your Fire Safety needs, helping you to get safety right, first time, every time.

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    The Pennington Process

    Investigate

    Our ‘hands-on’ fire experts work with you to survey and investigate your fire safety needs, providing a clear report to ensure, together, we get your safety right, first time, every time.

    Analyse

    We analyse both the fire safety risks you can see and those you cannot such as defective cavity barriers, missing compartment lines and non-fire risk enclosures.

    Act

    We take comprehensive action to give you the assurance you need to keep your clients fire safe. A range of fire services includes: compartmentation surveys, FRAs, Fire door audits and more.

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    Fire Risk Assessments

    Completed by our NEBOSH qualified team, our Fire Risk Assessments include policy review and revision, as well as remedial recommendations, all while remaining within your budget.

    Fire Door Audits

    Regular fire door checks are essential in order to comply with current regulations. We provide audits of fire doors within your organisation and can audit fire risk assessments completed by another company.

    Compartmentation Surveys

    Preventing the spread of smoke and fire in the event of an incident is vital in keeping building occupants safe. We offer detailed Compartmentation Surveys and collaborate with our clients via online management systems.

    Fire Strategy

    We help to develop a strategy that sets out the measures and escape plans put in place in buildings to prevent a fire and limit the spread if a fire was to occur.
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    Planning, Scheduling and Dispatch team (PS&D)

    Our PS&D team make appointments and act as the first point of contact for clients and their residents.
    • Planning - You will have your dedicated team for your contract. Your day-to-day contact is your Planning Coordinator.
    • Scheduling - We don't use administrative roles or an automated service to book tenant appointments. Instead, your Planning Coordinator manages a team of trained Schedulers who arrange their survey appointments in a friendly and helpful manner.
    • Dispatch of surveys - A surveyor's daily jobs are planned by our dedicated team, ensuring they are environmentally and geographically efficient.’

     

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    Featured Case Study

    Fire Risk Assessment

    Contract length: January 2020 – Ongoing
    Contract value: Circa £25k

    Project overview
    Healthcare providers have a duty of care to ensure that appropriate governance arrangements are in place and are managed effectively. Healthcare organisations must be able to satisfy the enforcing authority, if called upon to do so, that they have carried out a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment.

    Stockport-NHS

    “Pennington Choices were selected because they are third party accredited under the BAFE SP205 scheme. They provide an excellent, well managed and flexible service along with creating good quality reports with competitive pricing. I would definitely use them again.”

    Fire Safety Manager – Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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    Fire Safety FAQs

    What is Passive Fire Protection?

    Passive Fire Protection systems are built into the structure of a building and improve the fire resistance for a specified period. This includes enhancing the ability of steel to maintain loadbearing capacity and sealing systems to close penetrations and voids within the building to stop fire, smoke and heat spreading from one area to another. This type of fire protection is often unseen in normal situations (as it is ‘built into’ the building structure), but during a fire it will help protect lives and limit the damage to buildings by:
    • Limiting the spread of fire and smoke
    • Protecting escape routes
    • Protecting the building structure

    Why is it so important to inspect fire doors?

    Fire doors are specially engineered components of a building that are designed to restrict the spread of fire for a specified period to protect people and limit damage to buildings. As doors are one of the most heavily used elements of a building, it is critical to undertake regular inspections of fire doors to ensure they are functioning as designed. Even the smallest error, damage or change to an engineered fire door can vastly affect its fire resisting properties. An inspection by a specialist fire door surveyor can help you determine if your fires doors are:
    • Installed correctly
    • Fit for purpose
    • In a suitable condition

    How crucial is it to limit the spread of smoke?

    Smoke is still the main cause of death during fire conditions. Toxic gases, volatile particles and hot smoke can potentially kill with one breath and can spread throughout an unprotected building in minutes. Passive and active fire protection systems work to stop to spread of smoke through a variety of means including smoke seals on fire doors, cavity barriers within building voids, smoke
    dampers within ductwork and automatic opening vents. It is crucial to ensure these systems are in place and operating correctly, so that they can function as required during a fire condition or when activated by a detection device.

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