Ocean's Fire & Security Blog

Ocean were contacted by Mrs & Mrs Smith in Axminster, Devon as their existing security alarm system wasn’t working as the national company who had supported the system had gone into liquidation.

We quickly determined that the existing company had switched off all of their security systems remotely leaving Mr & Mrs Smiths property unprotected as the security system could no longer function.

Mr & Mrs Smith were extremely worried that their home would not be protected. The system that had been sold and installed to them by the previous company was controlled centrally by the company so when they went out ...

Security Alarm Maintenance for a Manufacturing Factory in Exeter, Devon.

A Operations Manager at a Manufacturing Factory called us about a existing Security Alarm system within their Factory at the Sotown Industrial estate in Exeter, Devon.

The operations manager had been experiencing painful ongoing problems with the existing provider, the existing provider was not turning up when planned and was slow to respond when they experienced issues resulting in the security alarm sometimes not being able to be set over night which would invalidate the insurance.

The operations manager contacted Ocean as another Exeter based company recommended Oceans service to them as Ocean ...

Fire Alarm System repair for a new retail store in Taunton, Somerset.

A Facilities manager at a Retail store called us about a Fire Alarm System for their New retail store in Taunton, Somerset.

Our customer took over their new retail store which had a fire alarm already installed but had various faults displayed on the fire alarm system.

After a call from the customer to Ocean Fire and Security, an engineer was dispatched on the same day and quickly found the faults on the fire alarm system.

The faults were repaired as the engineer had the replacement parts on their vehicle. The engineer ...

Office CCTV Systems In Yeovil
We received a call from Labyrinth IT Solutions in Yeovil. Their existing CCTV system had failed. So their office was unprotected. They needed a new camera system set up quickly.

Sherborne Residential Care Home Fire Alarm System. A residential care home in Sherborne called with a fire alarm fault that they were unable to rectify.

Fire & Security Maintenance Contract For A National Retail Chain. And So To Bed were having all their Fire and Security systems maintained nationally by many different providers. This meant they were finding it difficult to determine which supplier provided which service at which store.

NFF Precision Ltd a specialist providers of fabrication, welding, machining and assembly services in Bournemouth, Dorset needed help with Fire Alarm and Intruder Alarm Maintenance.

WHAT PROBLEMS WHERE THEY TRYING TO SOLVE?

“Our previous supplier’s poor communication and lack of interest in our business’ success, made us not feel valued as a customer. We needed a suppler who’s service made us feel secure, safe and most of all legally compliant.”

Via LinkedIn, we had already connected with the Operations Manager, who after reading the reviews from other customers, felt that it was worth speaking to us and see if we could help them.

The ...

Fire Safety in the Workplace

The importance of fire safety in the workplace can sometimes be overlooked. Fire safety is both important and necessary in order to prevent and protect against the impact caused by a fire. Fire safety reduces the risk to life, risk to building damage and the risk to your business continuance.

It is also the law. Having effective fire safety procedures and fire-fighting equipment in place is required by law, under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Also depending on the business type, there are many regulatory body requirements to uphold such as by HSE, CQC, ...

An independent school near Yeovil, Somerset found themselves out of contract with their fire alarm company and were recommended to Ocean Fire and Security by a neighbouring school.

The school required their Fire Alarms, Emergency Lighting and Fire Extinguishers to be reviewed and then maintained to the current standards.

SCHOOL FIRE SAFETY MAINTENANCE PACKAGE

Once the call for help come into us, the simple answer was YES! We can HELP! Our engineers attended to review the current systems in place, their maintenance history and to note any remediation works needed. Why was this required? Because not all fire companies are the same…not all ...

The fire alarm panel in this primary school in Dorset was found to be faulty during a recent routine service inspection.

The fault was traced to the main fire alarm control panel whereby if the system went into a fault condition, such as a power failure, the fire alarm panel did not activate any fault conditions.

This could have proved critical if there were faults with any part of the system, as the customer would not have been aware as the panel would not have sounded.

After the inspection our engineer swiftly reported the issue to the customer and Ocean liaised with the ...