Liam Jones
Founder, Pilla App
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Learn how to carry out weekly fire alarm tests, build fire alarm testing into your health and safety system with Pilla, and use AI to automate the process.
Join Liam Jones, founder of Pilla and a qualified food safety consultant, for a session on weekly fire alarm testing.
Understand
A fire alarm that fails during a real emergency is worse than having no alarm at all, because people expect it to warn them and when it does not, they lose precious evacuation time. Weekly testing catches faults before they become fatal failures.
Testing at the same time and day serves two purposes. Building occupants learn to expect it and will not panic when it sounds, and they know that if the alarm sounds at any other time, it is real. Rotating call points is equally important because if you only ever test the same one, you will never discover faults with the others. Each week, test a different manual call point so that over time every point in your building is covered.
Walk the entire building while the alarm is sounding. Listen in every room and corridor to confirm the alarm is clearly audible. Check that every sounder is making noise and every visual beacon is flashing. Then verify the system resets cleanly with no fault indicators on the panel. If a test reveals a fault, report it to your fire alarm maintenance company immediately, assess whether the affected area is still covered, and implement interim measures.
Apply
See how fire alarm testing fits into your wider health and safety management system in Pilla. We walk through how to build this into your system so that your team has clear processes, accountability, and a documented trail that proves compliance.
Automate
Learn how AI can speed up this process and connect Pilla to your other tools, giving you a much more joined up system across your business.
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