The Importance of Smoke Alarm Safety
Smoke alarms are crucial life-saving devices that provide an early warning in the event of a fire.
They are essential for every home and can significantly reduce the risk of injury or death from fire. This page outlines why smoke alarm safety and compliance is so important, and what you can do to ensure your alarms are functioning correctly.
Why are Smoke Alarms so Important?
Early Warning: Fires can spread rapidly, and the difference between a few minutes can be a matter of life and death. Smoke alarms are designed to detect smoke long before you might smell it, waking you and your family in time to escape.
Reduced Fatalities: Working smoke alarms significantly decrease the risk of fire-related deaths. Studies have shown that homes with working smoke alarms have a much lower fatality rate than homes without them.
Protection While Sleeping: Fires often occur at night when people are asleep and unable to detect smoke through smell. Smoke alarms provide a crucial alert when you are most vulnerable.
Property Protection: While the primary focus is on saving lives, smoke alarms also help minimize property damage by alerting you to a fire early, allowing you to take action and potentially contain the spread.
What we can do to help
Scheduled maintenance: Amped Up Power offers scheduled smoke alarm safety inspections. Our highly trained and skilled technicians will inspect and service you smoke alarm system to ensure all functions are operational. Your alarms will be cleaned and age checked, battery replaced and manually function tested with simulated smoke. to ensure alarms function as required.
Information reporting: An inspection report will be provided after each safety inspection. The report will include alarm system information (type, location etc.) and inform of our findings from the inspection, like suggested actions or if items are due for replacement next year etc.
Reminder emails: Once subscribed to our alarm safety program, we can update you 3 months out, reminding your alarms should be serviced soon (optional). We will also get in touch 1 month out from expected service to confirm availability and schedule inspection.
What you can do to prepare
Escape Plan: Having a working smoke alarm is only part of fire safety. Develop and practice a fire escape plan with your family. Know two ways out of every room and designate a meeting place outside so you can account for everyone.
Testing: Regularly test your smoke alarms, ideally once a month. Press the test button to ensure the alarm sounds. If it doesn't, replace the batteries immediately.
Subscribe to our annual safety inspection program!