safety
-
Why Won’t My Fire Alarm Mute the PA System During a Test?
If your fire alarm fails to mute your building’s background music or public address system during a test, you have a failed priority override relay. Under commercial fire codes, emergency notifications must automatically hijack the PA system, force the speaker volume to maximum, and completely cut off all non-emergency audio so occupants can hear evacuation…
-
Emergency Fire Watch in Austin: Rules, Logs, and How to Stop It
It is the call no Austin property manager wants to get at 2:00 AM. Your fire alarm panel has crashed, or a sprinkler pipe burst during a freeze. The system is dead. Now, you are facing a critical choice: Shut down your building immediately, or implement an Emergency Fire Watch. As a Fire Safety Expert…