Saturday, September 27, 2014

Upgrade Safety Using Fire Systems For Oceanside Restaurants

By Mark Mahaffey


If you own a restaurant in Oceanside, you no doubt know about the possibility of fire in your business. It is critical that you do whatever you can to ensure the safety of your customers. Having to go through a lawsuit after a fire would be devastating, especially if you had not done what is necessary to keep your customers as safe as possible.

It is no surprise that restaurants are prone to fires. When you think about the equipment in the kitchen areas, it makes sense. Those big stoves and ovens produce a lot of heat. If a fire happens in a kitchen, it could very easily expand into a fire that invades the rest of your establishment.

Fire systems are a great way to keep the danger of fire low. These systems can be programmed to detect not only smoke, but also heat. They are sensitive to temperature changes, so that even if a fire is not making a lot of smoke, the temperature change will trip the sensor and then sent out warnings to the people in the restaurant, as well as to the monitoring service.

The security company can then send a message to your local fire department. They can then send their trucks and help put the fire out. Do you have sprinklers in your building? If not, you should have some of these installed so that when a fire happens, the sprinklers begin spraying water on it immediately.

The advantage to having a sprinkler system is that it can actually help keep the fire from getting too bad. The more the fire can be contained before the fire department arrives, the better, because they will be better able to put it out before it does extensive damage.

Finally, you must have an evacuation plan for your restaurant. Train your workers to know what to do and how to get themselves and the customers out to safety when a fire starts in your building.




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