News

June 2011

Victor Mallon joins the team as Senior Fire Safety Consultant repsonsible for Fire Risk Assessments, new sales leads client liason manager. Victor served in the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescuse Service for over 20 years as a senior Fire Safety Oficcer. He can be contacted on victor@firedefenceni.co.uk or 07790394957.

 

April 2011

19 April 2011 Fire Defence are delighted to announce they have won the ‘The Best Service Sector Business Award at Lisburn City Business Awards and were a finalist in the Growth Sector.

The Gala Ball was a glittering event with William Caulfield as compere and a musical performance from X factors Ruth Lorenzo. It was attended by 240 from the local business community and prestigious sponsors such as Lisburn Council, University Ulster Jordanstown Invest NI, First Trust Bank, Lisburn Enterprise Organization Montupet and Lestas Consulting.

We were especially pleased that so many of our clients also won awards in fact half of the 12 categories! Well done to Browns Coachworks, Parsons Nose, Decora Blind Systems, Reach EPS, The Avenue Coffee Shop, McCalls of Lisburn. Supporting local business! http://www.lisburncity.gov.uk/investment-and-business/city-business-awards-2011/

Lisburn City Business Awards 2011

 

Nov 2010

The Fire & Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 will came into force on 15th November 2010, bringing N. Ireland into line with UK fire safety legislation, whereby it will be a legal requirement that all non-domestic premises must have in place a written fire risk assessment. This must be undertaken by someone who is considered knowledgeable and competent, i.e. someone who has sufficient training, experience, knowledge or qualifications.

The NI Fire & Rescue Services is responsible for the enforcement of the new legislation and has wide - ranging powers, including entry to any premises, access to documents, inspections, issuing prohibition/closure notices and ultimately legal action. Please call Fire Defence and we can arrange a quote for you.

 

October 2010

Fire Defence are now selling fire extinguisher and fire alarm equipment to trade North and South,
we welcome calls from electrician and fire protection companies.

 

August 2010

Brian McKee joined the team in August and is growing the list of services we can offer our clients.
Installations and services for Intruder systems and CCTV systems. This ultimately results in savings for our clients.

 

May 2010

Fire Defence has achieved BAFE Registration. (British Approvals for Fire Equipment) This is an independent third party certificate of conformity which has taken many steps to achieve and is the benchmark for quality and competency.

 

February 2010

Amy Eastwood has been appointed Field Sales Representative. Amy has a proven track record in sales and identifying customers needs and will set up free site surveys for our experienced engineers to carry out.

With new sales targets set for 2010, Fire Defence hope to capture more business and help local businesses consolidate their services under one service provider and therefore offer substantial savings. Amy also plans to call with existing extinguisher customers and introduce new additional services eg PAT testing, fire alarm and emergency lighting maintenances.

 

January 2010

We have been awarded ISO 9001:2008 accreditation.

February 2009

Dave Redmond Co Wicklow joins the team to head the Fire Alarm Service Contracts in Southern Ireland. Dave has 20+ year experience in the Fire Protection and Security Industry and has spent several years running his own company Alert Fire Protection. The Clients of Alert Fire Protection are in the process of transferring services to Fire Defence were Dave will be happy to carry on the high level of service they have received in the past. We also hope that under the current Euro Sterling exchange rate we will be able to offer very competitive prices in Southern Ireland. 

September 2008

Fire Defence have just employed a full time Fire Alarm Engineer Alan Campbell with 15 years experience to introduce a new service to clients.

Alan Campbell will oversee this growth of Fire Alarm and Emergency Lighting installation maintenance and testing and training of existing staff. An all Ireland contract for several high street stores has already been secured. However our sales team are initially concentrating on working to secure more work with existing clients.

This enables Fire Defence to help clients cut down on annual service costs to different companies coming to carry out different jobs; we aim to offer essentially a one stop shop with a cost per service saving on call out fees.