Who Should Perform Your Annual Inspections? Fire can cause serious damage. That’s not surprising to anyone, but there are so many more hidden damages other than those caused by fires. Fire ruins your building’s infrastructure, it can cause smoke damage, and at worst, may cause serious injury or death. However, psychological damage occurs as well.
How Fire Prevention and Safety Became the Standard in America In the world of Life and Fire Safety, the acronym NFPA is inescapable. The National Fire Protection Agency is an American trade association. The NFPA seeks to regulate and standardize how we protect ourselves from fire. And there’s a reason they are so well-ingrained in
What Does it Mean to Be in the Fire Sciences? When most people think about fire and life safety, they think about the extremes: house fires, firefighters, and wailing sirens. What people tend to not think about are the lives of the people who keep us from getting to that point: fire and life safety
How We Get Water Where We Need It You’ve got fire hydrants on your street, you see dogs relieve themselves on them in cartoons (or in real life). Maybe you might even be unlucky enough to have gotten a ticket for parking in front of one (and there’s a great reason why you would get
Regular Testing for Fire Safety and Fire Prevention We know that the jobs we perform are important. What we do on the job may seem tedious, but that’s how we know we’re doing the job correctly. While a technician might not have the most exciting day-to-day jobs, we can take solace in the fact that
How Much Does Fire Safety Inspection Really Cost You? In 2017, fires were the cause of an estimated 23 billion dollars in property damage. Damage not caused by wildfires falls to 10 billion, but with a price tag that large, the difference hardly matters. Fires can be devastating, causing a huge amount of damage to
How to Know Your Fire Safety Inspection Technicians Perform Perfectly No matter what your job is, or how important it is, there is always something lost due to human error. That’s why it’s especially crucial for those of us in the fire safety inspection industry to make sure we strictly follow our inspection
The last few months have been very busy here at Inspect Point. We continue to push out new features and enhancements that let our users organize, manage and grow their businesses better. A couple years ago the founders at Inspect Point discussed getting a podcast started to get our message out to the masses. We
Make Fire Extinguisher Inspections Part of Your Fire Prevention Plan Fire extinguishers are a part of the fabric of our modern lives. We keep them in our kitchens, in our workplaces, and we hope we never have to use them. Part of OSHA’s safety regulations states that you need to regularly ensure that your business’s
Codes and Standards from the National Fire Protection Agency The NFPA 101 document for Life Safety Codes is almost 1,000 pages long and is extremely comprehensive. While it can be hard to say there can ever be too much information on fire code and workplace safety, it’s hard to imagine anyone has the time