Staying ahead of the curve is essential to being a well-rounded fire safety company. Following the fleet management best practices, below, will help your service company increase productivity and grow your business.
Vehicle Fleet Maintenance
Taking time out of the day to maintain your fleet may seem inconvenient. However, this proves to be worth it in the long run. Keeping your vehicles in shape increases their life span and ensures the safety of your technicians.
Topics: Fire Safety, Affiliates, Best Practices, Fleet Management
Do you want your business to level up and become unbeatable? Then you’ll be excited about this!
Topics: Web, Multi-Site Facilities, Fire Safety, Technology, Affiliates, Life Safety, Mobile Apps, Benefits
As a Commercial Fire Affiliate Partner, the Commercial Fire Connection Online Portal and Mobile App not only provide a space to manage all of your jobs in one place but also help you get paid faster, and facilitate better communication with customers. Other benefits include:
Topics: Fire Safety, Technology, Affiliates, National Account Companies, Life Safety, Mobile Apps, Benefits
BACKFLOW - Backflow is simply a reversal of the average water flow—from the customer side of the meter into the water system. It can happen due to water pressure differences or sudden changes in pressure. It can allow contaminants to be pumped or siphoned back into buildings’ plumbing system and, potentially, the public water supply. These situations occur if normal pressures are interrupted by a water main break, a power failure, or some other disruption in water service.
Topics: Multi-Site Facilities, Compliance, Backflow, Fire Safety
A building’s automatic fire sprinkler system is a water piping network with discharge devices to spray water to control a fire until the fire department arrives. The discharge devices are called automatic sprinklers. When a fire occurs in a building, sprinklers operate automatically immediately after their heat-activated element reaches a predetermined operating temperature. Once operated from the heat of a fire, water is released out of the sprinkler opening in a spray pattern designed to extinguish the fire in the immediate area of fire origin. Most people don’t know that only one or two sprinklers within the fire typically operate as that’s where there is sufficient heat to trigger the operation of those sprinklers.
Topics: Compliance, Sprinklers, Fire Safety
The article, “Should You Be Doing National Account Work?” was written by Bill Dayton, Director of Affiliate Network at Commercial Fire, and covers the questions every kitchen hood exhaust cleaning (KEC) company owner must ask when deciding if national account company (NAC) work makes sense for their business.
Highlights include benefits, such as consistent cash flow and zero acquisition cost, more productive and efficient routes, access to work at larger businesses, uncomplicated business growth, and trade-offs (revenue sharing with the NAC, strict compliance requirements, phone call volume, paperwork, and IVR).
“Should you decide that NAC work is right for your business, you now have some considerations. There may be long-term value in having NAC work as part of your overall business model,” said Dayton.
To read the full article, visit the IKECA Journal.
Commercial Fire proudly supports IKECA as an Active North American Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Company Member.
Topics: Multi-Site Facilities, Restaurants, Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning, Fire Safety
You’ve seen it a million times in movies and TV shows – a small fire breaks out, and a heroic character grabs a Fire Extinguisher and puts out the flames before they can grow larger. But here is the problem: in the real world, if the Fire Extinguisher isn’t properly maintained and charged when our hero grabs it, it won’t work.
Topics: Fire Extinguishers
As a Facility Manager, keeping your property, employees, and occupants safe in the event of fire is number one on your list. A close second would be doing so easily and economically. Maintaining your Fire Alarm System(s) would be the place to start. After all, it offers the early warning people need to vacate the premises and alerts the fire department to an emergency. Besides that, there are a number of other reasons you'll want to have them inspected annually, like:
Topics: Smoke Alarms
Water. The source of life. A massive benefit to living in modern society is having clean water available at any time. All you have to do is turn on the tap and it comes flowing out crystal clean. But how do we ensure it stays that way, that no dirty water gets mixed back in with the clean? Simple—Backflow Preventers. But what are they? Here’s a simple analogy.
Topics: Backflow
FEMA (Fire Equipment Manufacturers’ Association) recently commissioned a new study on the role portable extinguishers play in reducing carbon monoxide in a building with automatic sprinklers. It found that portable fire extinguishers can reduce fire-related CO2 in a building by over 93% beyond sprinklers on their own. When sprinklers and portable extinguishers are used together, fire-related carbon emissions are cut by 99%.
The benefits of adding fire extinguishers to a building’s fire protection to reduce its carbon footprint can readily be seen when evaluating emergency response to a fire. These can be categorized into three areas:
Topics: Multi-Site Facilities, Fire Extinguishers, Fire Safety, Carbon Footprint
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