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Welcome to the latest RES Record, bringing you fire safety industry news and updates from the RES team.
Since our last newsletter of Winter 2024 there are a number of key updates and highlights to share with you. |
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Emergency Lighting MaintenanceMonthly inspectionsAnnual discharge testingFault Finding and repairsReplacement light installations
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| BAFE RegisteredBAFE SP203-4 Emergency Lighting: Third-party certificated by BSI. |
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Types of lighting systems |
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There are three main kinds of emergency lighting systems;
Non-maintained – lamp only illuminates in the event of mains failure to the luminaire.
Maintained – allow the emergency lamp to be operated at any time from the local supply to provide normal lighting but in the event of a power failure to the luminaire, it will illuminate the lamp from its dedicated battery back up power source.
Combined – multi-lamp luminaires where the emergency lamp can be operated in a non maintained or a maintained mode.
The required operating duration for emergency lighting varies according to the use of the building and can vary from a minimum of one hour to three hours depending on the requirements of the building or the activities taking place within the premises. |
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Emergency lighting testing
British Standard 5266: Part 8 requires that installed emergency lighting systems shall have continued maintenance and periodic testing carried out, as defined in the standard. In practice, the emergency luminaires must be functionally tested every month and for their full rated duration annually.
The purpose of this periodic testing is to ensure the satisfactory operation of each emergency luminaire, to establish that the light output from each luminaire is sufficient, and ultimately that the system is still fit for purpose and that it corresponds with the requirements of the standards.
For safety reasons, the standards advise that the emergency lighting testing should be carried out at times of least risk to the buildings occupants or if possible, when the premises are unoccupied or in unoccupied portions of those premises.
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Case Study - Emergency light servicing for logistics warehouse |
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RES recently undertook an annual (3 hourly) emergency light service of a large logistics warehouse to BS 5266-1:2016. |
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The Home Office has updated three guides that a number of our customers will find useful to read and or save to refer to at some point. |
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| “Making your Small Block Of Flats Safe From Fire” has had amendments in relation to the Fire Safety England Regulations. Updated as of November 2024 |
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| “Fire Risk Assessment - 5 step checklist” has had an update. Updated as of November 2024
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| A Guide to making your small paying-guest-accommodation safe from fire” has had some additional sections added. Updated as of November 2024
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All three guides are available to download in our ‘Free downloads’ section. |
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Update to Approved Document B released |
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| The FPA (Fire Protection Association) have published an updated Approved Document B (Fire safety) Volume 1 (Dwellings) and Volume 2 (Buildings other than dwellings) of the Building Regulations to incorporate future amendments.
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 | Established in 1985, RES (Reading Extinguisher Services) initially began servicing and maintaining portable fire protection and fire brigade equipment. |
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| Left: Our original office on Caversham Road, Reading which RES occupied from 1985 to 2014.
From a small team of engineers and office staff westeadily grew as our services expanded into Fire Detection and Alarm Systems, SmokeControl Systems, Emergency Lighting and associated services. |
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Right: Our current site on Cremyll Road, Readng provides the space we need to operate efficiently.
We now have over thirty employees and 28 speciallyequipped service, maintenance and installation vans which of course have ourlatest distinctive RES Fire livery. |
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As we celebrate our 40 Years in the Fire Safety Industry, we give our thanks to all our customers, some of whom have been with us from the beginning.
As the Fire Safety Industry steadily changes, we look forward to providingour customers with the latest industry innovations and the very higheststandard of services.
Thank You |
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New How-to videos now available
These videos are aimed at helping customers undertake routine fire safety tasks or resolve common issues. |
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| Fire Extinguisher Visual Inspection |
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| Replace broken glass in a Manual Call Point |
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| How to test and reset a manual call point |
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RES will be attending the Fire Safety Event on 8 - 10 APRIL 2025 at the NEC in Birmingham. Billed as the UK’s NO.1 Fire Safety Event, it showcases the latest products and also includes seminars, networking events and Women in Industry specific events. |
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| AOV Service and Maintenance |
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A number of our engineers recently undertook Certified and Accredited AOV Service and Maintenance training with trainer David McCormack. |
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| The one day course involved in depth product training as-well as course work and an examination. |
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Smoke control and ventilation systems vent smoke out of a building in the event of a fire and are commonly used in residential, commercial, healthcare or educational premises.
Natural ventilation systems utilise windows, vents and automatic opening vents (AOVs) and are a primary system used in UK Building Regulations. |
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Alton Ninjas!
A good start to the 2024/2025 season for the Under 14 Ninjas after an injection of new players and a new head coach. They currently have had a run of 6 games unbeaten and are loving their new blue away kit!
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Westood Wanderers
Westwood Wanderers U10’s are getting along great. Our 1st game of the year was last Saturday 18th of which a tight game saw us win 5-4 against Hearts of Teddlothian Buffaloes making it a 5 game winning streak!
The whole club will be completing a sponsored run in the next week or so to raise fund for the club also.. this is done during training and usually has the club mascot Wolfie in attendance! |
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| Jess Knight Accounts Assistant
Jess joined RES in May 2016 as an Office Administrator.
In March 2018 she then moved over to Accounts Assistant whilst training in Bookkeeping Level 2.
With Level 2 completed, Jess is now working on her AAT Management Accounting Techniques Level 3, which she is enjoying working through.
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