Home Safety Week encourages people to assess the needs of their homes and ensure they have adequate alamrs for their needs. For those most vulnerable groups Fire and Rescue Services can assist with specific advice for the indivdual and, if required, fit smoke detection and some fire and rescue service may be able to install CO detection too. Alarms save lives and in the event of a fire or carbon monoxide (CO) incident they can provide precious time to escape.
Tag: Carbon Monoxide
HETAS supports safety initiative in Abkhazia
HETAS has put its support behind a safety initiative at schools in Abkhazia, an independent state situated in the north-western corner of Georgia.
Be Alarmed
Be alarmed The positioning of a carbon monoxide alarms can be an important factor in ensuring compliance with Approved Document J and ensuring an alarm has the best opportunity to identify carbon monoxide. HETAS Technical Note 0022 (login required) has all the information you need. There can be confusion caused by differing guidance and advice Read More…
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas Here at HETAS we want to ensure you have a safe and enjoyable festive period with your family and friends. Here are some of our top festive tips to help you along the way, including getting your chimney swept and checking smoke and CO alarms. Be alarmed! Carbon Monoxide Read More…
CEDA and HETAS collaborate on new guidance
CEDA and HETAS collaborate on new guidance Solid fuel fired catering equipment has seen a huge increase in popularity in the last couple of years. HETAS has spent the last 18 months in close collaboration with ceda to produce some much-needed industry guidelines. These guidelines are in harmony with the latest version of DW172, the Read More…
Test your Carbon Monoxide alarms
Test your Carbon Monoxide alarms! Also known as ‘Test it Tuesday’ – Always test your carbon monoxide alarms and smoke detectors in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. We advise you to test your alarms at least once a month on a day you are likely to remember. Please refer to your manufacturer’s instructions for specific Read More…
Katie Sweep Video
Katie Sweep Video HETAS Approved Chimney Sweep Katie Sweep has been working with Honeywell and HV Skan to produce a number of promotional videos on the correct installation and placement of the Honeywell range of smoke alarms. Keeping your family safe by fitting a “Smoke Alarm” has been the message for almost 4 decades… Although Read More…
Which? Carbon Monoxide Alarm Testing
Which? CO Alarm Testing HETAS and The Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring (CoGDEM) are urging customers to purchase audible carbon monoxide (CO) alarms from well-known and recognised brands after a recent Which? report revealed a number of cheap and imported CO alarms to be unsafe and unreliable. Which? recently put a number of Read More…
CO Awareness Week 2016
CO Awareness Week November 21st to 27th is Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week. Join people, organisations and businesses of all sizes to help raise awareness of the danger of carbon monoxide. Organised by Lynn Griffiths and her charity, Carbon Monoxide Awareness, the campaign is now in its eleventh year. Lynn suggests there are a number of Read More…
Tick Tock Test
SPRING INTO ACTION AND PLEDGE TO SAVE LIVES Give your smoke alarms a spring clean – Tick Tock Test your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors when you change your clocks this weekend. Fire Kills is asking people across the country to welcome British Summer Time by Tick Tock Testing their smoke alarms when they Read More…