Fire safety equipment
Fire safety equipment must be reliable and suitable for the purpose. The manufacturers, importers and sellers are responsible for the safety and compliance of the products they sell.
The seller must ensure that each product is accompanied by all installation, operating and maintenance instructions essential for the safe use of the product.
Tukes supervises the compliance of the following rescue service equipment, among others:
- smoke alarms;
- carbon monoxide alarms;
- portable fire extinguishers and first-aid extinguishing products such as fire blankets;
- equipment included in a fire alarm system installed in a building;
- equipment intended as a part of automatic fire extinguishing systems installed in a building.
Tukes also supervises companies and their responsible persons who carry out the following tasks:
- installation, maintenance and inspection of fire alarm systems in buildings;
- installation, maintenance and inspection of automatic fire extinguishing systems;
- inspection and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers.
Tukes also supervises inspection bodies that inspect the above-mentioned equipment.
Tukes also keeps a register of fire alarm system, automatic fire extinguishing system and portable fire extinguisher businesses and their responsible persons.
