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About 90% of automatic fire-detection and fire-alarm systems do not cause regular false alarms. However, the remaining 10% are involved in most unwanted fire alarm signals. Every false alarm causes disruption. This may affect your customer service, your productivity or the general routine of your organisation.
The cost of false alarms in the UK is estimated to be about £1 billion a year. If you assessed the cost to your company, you would probably be surprised. One medium-sized company found that the average false alarm at one of their sites cost them £1,200, and at another sites costs amounted to around £126,000 in one year alone. However, false alarms affect you, they also divert our recourses away from actual emergencies, which means the lives and properties of others could be at serious risk.
The guidance given in this booklet is designed to help you to keep your fire-detection and fire-alarm systems in good working order.
Finally, please help us to make Norfolk safer by playing your part in reducing false alarms.
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For Further Information Click Below:
 Unwanted fire alarm - reduction leaflet
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