Smoke alarms do save lives and is very important to you know this, here are some smoke alarm safety measures:
- have more than just one smoke detector around your home to give ample coverage in places were smoke detectors are required for example on all levels of your home, in each bedroom or outside each bedroom.
- Regularly test your smoke alarm every week, keeping up to date with replacing batteries at least once a year, don’t ignore the low battery beeps of the smoke alarm replace the batteries as soon as you hear it, taking out the batteries will give no protection at all and to adhere to all manufactures recommendations.
- Smoke detectors connected to your alarm system and to a base station will give you more peace of mind and the most out of your smoke alarm
- Free maintenance on your smoke alarm to make sure it’s in working order.
- A good practice is to have an escape route in case of a fire for example another exit point the more the better, this will improve the escape time.
- Nuisance alarms can be minimised by new features added to smoke alarms such as a hush feature, installing the device in appropriate locations for example certain distance away from steam from a shower.