An electricity distribution and transmission company that carries electricity to more than three and a half million homes and businesses across large parts of the UK. Over 4,000 people are employed across the country.
With a large mobile workforce, the company’s health and safety team needed to ensure that each of its vans was fitted with a compact, practical fire extinguisher. Since the vans are in constant use across the country it was very difficult to carry out traditional annual extinguisher servicing on the units.
The company chose the recently-introduced compact 2kg powder version of the highly acclaimed Britannia P50. Kitemarked to the latest British Standard, the extinguisher does not require an annual service carried out by an external extinguisher servicing technician. Instead it is inspected by the company’s own staff during the regular vehicle service. The extinguisher does not require a refill after 5 years and has a 10 year warranty. After 10 years it is factory refurbished to achieve further 10 years use. Its rugged construction, that utilises a composite material rather than metal, means it will not rust or corrode.
With the vans constantly on the road, servicing standard extinguishers would have been costly and inconvenient. Since P50 service-free extinguishers only require a simple annual check; this purely visual inspection can be carried out by the company’s own staff during routine vehicle services.
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