Practical Fire Alarm Installation – BTEC Level 3 Certificate
Course Overview
This practical fire alarms training course is suited to installation companies or individuals wishing to improve their skills and develop their knowledge of addressable fire alarms system. This will be of particular interest to installation and fire system engineers, who require a better understanding of integrating fire systems with other equipment, such as access control and fire shutters etc. The training course is also recommended for electrical installation companies who are already installing conventional systems and wish to seek new opportunities and business in the more profitable addressable fire alarm market place.
What will you learn?
- Understanding the role of the inspectorates
- Understanding the Regulatory Reform Order
- Who should carry out risk assessments
- Fire alarm system design – detection types, zones sound level requirements
- Acceptable sound levels using bells or sounders
- Industry standards and how to apply them
- Understanding wire free equipment and when to use it
- Variation orders and what they mean
- Understanding the operation of different devices
- Installing smoke/Heat detectors/Smoke beams
- Installation (Theory and Practical) – conventional and analogue addressable systems
- Interfacing with access control
- Remote signalling options
- Understanding how a system should be zoned
- Zone isolators and when to fit them
- Programming addressable systems
- How to correctly calculate battery time
- How to limit unwatched activations
- Health and safety considerations
- Hands on workshop activities
- Emergency lighting systems
£1195.00 + VAT
5 Days
BTEC Level 3 Certificate
