No, it is not uncommon to hear from management, "why are we not doing what the 'average company´ does?" Management by fear. There is safety in taking a decision that follows the herd. Often times management does not have (or want to take the time) to think through and understand the issues. Fire is an assumable risk in most industries; pharmaceutical production is ... an exception.
Single-shot gas systems will fail. And they will false activate, although tolerably so with the most reliable of smoke / heat detection systems. You really should go through the risk analysis (as George pointed out, these are real euros when it comes to BI). see if the company can live with the outcome of a single-shot "clean agent" system not succeeding and there not being a back-up suppression plan in place. Capitalization is not the question. It is BI. Single shot "clean agent" systems can cost 10-by what a sprinkler system will, and that is still a drop-in-the-bucket to what lost production will suck up. Good points were made for sprinklering the entire thing. más vale preparar que curar. scot deal excelsior fire _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
