Commercial fire extinguishers

Fire extinguishers need more than occasional visual checks to remain reliable. Under the RRFSO, the responsible person must ensure fire-fighting equipment is subject to a suitable maintenance system and kept in efficient working order and good repair. Checkmate Fire helps responsible persons meet this ongoing responsibility through scheduled servicing and rigorous planned preventative maintenance programmes.

We carry out comprehensive multi-point inspections annually to check every fire extinguisher’s condition, accessibility, and readiness for use – covering elements such as signage, tamper seals, pressure, and overall placement. Meanwhile, extended servicing – required every five years for water, water mist, foam, powder, and wet chemical fire extinguishers and every 10 years for CO2 fire extinguishers – helps identify defects, deterioration, and other issues that may not be apparent during routine servicing. Clear service records and remedial works are recorded in your fire safety logbook on each visit, giving you an evidenced maintenance history and supporting ongoing decision making. Plus, by managing the entire servicing process on your behalf, we help take the administrative burden away from the responsible person while ensuring regulatory duties are not overlooked.

If commercial fire extinguisher installation, servicing, or maintenance is found to be non-compliant, it can nullify your fire extinguisher warranty, trigger enforcement notices from local authorities, and, in serious cases, lead to prosecution and penalties. Because we hold ourselves, and our engineers, to the rigorous standards set by the industry’s leading accreditation bodies, you can be confident in the quality and competence of every service we deliver. 

Checkmate Fire is third-party accredited and BAFE SP101 registered for portable fire extinguisher services, with our fire extinguisher technicians registered under the scheme. BAFE SP101 assesses the competence of organisations and technicians, with requirements covering relevant parts of BS 5306, ongoing training, and on-site assessment. We are also proud members of the Fire Protection Association (FPA) and hold affiliation with the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE). While the FPA keeps us current with evolving legislation, technical guidance, and industry best practice at an organisational level, the IFE reflects the individual technical competence and ongoing professional development of our fire safety engineers themselves. Alongside these, our CHAS and SafeContractor accreditations provide independent verification that we operate safely and compliantly on your premises, providing peace of mind whether we are working in a hospital, a hotel, a student residence, or an industrial site.