Six Ways to Prevent Your Lift Trucks from Starting a Fire

Posted on Thursday, September 15th, 2011

If you use powered lift trucks in your warehouse, as most warehouse operators do, there is a chance that someday one of them will start a fire in your facility.  Are you prepared for that?  Are you doing what you can now to prevent it? For six tips to prevent fork lift fires in your

The Advantages Of FPE’s Managing The Fire Protection Solution Design Process

Posted on Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Hiring an expert fire protection engineer from the outset will lead to the implementation of optimal and accurate fire protection solutions that will decreases the fire risk and utilize capital dollars effectively.

Full Spectrum Fire Protection Engineering

Posted on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

A quality fire protection solution delivers the appropriate level of fire safety at a reasonable cost. Ensuring fire safety, finding affordable solutions, and managing the entire design and implementation process will assure that the client’s and underwriter’s needs are both met.

Forensic Fire Engineering Helps to Understand Harmful Effects of Fire

Posted on Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Understanding the harmful effects of fire and the means to protect against them are central to the practice of fire protection engineering. Given this specialized background, more and more frequently fire protection engineers are tasked with investigating the cause of fires and explosions, as well as the failure of fire protection systems and their effect on life and property loss.

How Fire Protection Engineers Use Data To Save You Money

Posted on Thursday, August 18th, 2011

An underwriter can create success when they insure businesses with as close to zero risk as possible. If risk hasn’t been properly accounted for, one bad fire can destroy the entire business. Due to an underwriter’s business objectives of reducing risk to a near zero percent, they can err on the too conservative side of the scale in both assessment and recommended solutions. A conservative assessment that overstates risk, even if it is unreasonable, will be favorable to an insurance company since they are trying to protect their bottom line. The primary concern of FPE’s is an accurate fire risk assessment. Coming in from the outside, they can make an objective assessment. Using research and data, FPE’s can prove or disprove risk assessments to make sure they are accurately stated.