Thursday, October 9, 2014

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 easy for a fire to break out in a restaurant. If you think about it, this makes sense. The stoves and ovens used in restaurants are usually large and powerful, creating a lot of heat. And if a fire starts in the kitchen area, it is likely that it would pretty speedily spread and create a dangerous situation for your employees and for your customers

A savvy way to reduce the threat of a fire emergency in your building is to put in a fire system. These systems can be equipped with components that not only are good at detecting a fire based on the smoke that a fire produces, but they can detect heat as well. If the temperature goes up too much, the fire system can detect that and send an alert to you and your monitoring service.

After the monitoring company knows that there is a problem in your building, they can contact the authorities, and they can make sure that fire emergency workers come to assist you. It is also a good idea to have sprinklers installed.

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.

Does your restaurant have a fire evacuation procedure? If not, you should draw one up immediately. Make sure your workers know where all the doors are and the best way to quickly get the customers out of the building if a fire occurs.




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