Unwanted fire signals documents
Unwanted fire signals document repository
The following documents have been prepared to assist Fire and Rescue Services in following the latest NFCC guidance. If services wish to draft their own versions, they should ensure that the policy is applied as intended.
The AFA/UwFS working group would welcome comments on the suitability of these documents, so they might be amended to best fit the needs of all Fire and Rescue Services.
Engagement letters
- Registration of Automated Fire Alarm System (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
- Letter to the Responsible Person:number of false alarms is within the performance level 1 threshold. Reflects an improvement in management of false alarms at the premises. (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
- No Reduction unwanted fire signals performance Improved Jan 2018
- Letter to inform the Responsible Person that the level of false alarms over the last 3 months has continued to exceed the performance level 1 threshold. (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
- Letter to state that whilst the number of false alarms exceeds the performance level 1 threshold, investigations have concluded that this is acceptable for the existing circumstances. (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
- Letter to state that the level of false alarms exceeds the threshold for receiving an Attendance Level 1 emergency response. After 14 days from the date of this letter, a single appliance will be sent at road speed when responding to calls based solely on the activation of your fire alarm and fire detection system. (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
- Letter to state that, 14 days from the date of this letter, we will no longer attend your premises when responding to calls based solely on the activation of your fire alarm and fire detection system. If your system is connected to a remote monitoring service, your service provider will be instructed not to pass calls to the local FRS (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
- Letter to state that, following improvements in reducing the number of false alarms transmitted to the FRS, we are re-instating the Attendance Level 1 emergency response to an automatic fire alarm actuating at your premises. (Thu, 06 Jan 2011)
