The white paper, aimed at building owners and managers, raises awareness of the risks of outsourcing maintenance and also gives guidelines on how to avoid or minimise these risks.
Euralarm produced the five-page document in response to the growing trend among building owners and managers to outsource fire safety and security systems maintenance and management to third party facilities management firms.
Often, fire safety and security systems are bundled together with other types of systems into one maintenance service contract, to reduce costs and the number of service providers. But, this brings with it the risk of non-specialists taking on responsibility for maintaining fire safety and managing security services.
Building owners or operators have a responsibility to ensure service providers are qualified and certified to carry out the work according to European and local standards, regulations and laws.
Euralarm encourages building owners and managers to use European standard EN 16763 as a guidance and to build the requirements for valid third party certification into tenders and contracts when deciding which service provider to choose.
Based in Zug, Switzerland, Euralarm represents over 5000 companies within the fire safety and security industry valued at €67 billion.
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