Fire protection
Portable extinguishers, hose reels, hydrants, and fixed systems down to their valve sets, pumps and cylinders. Every item on the register individually, not a count per compartment.
Service records that still stand up in three years
Fire protection and life saving appliances, serviced and recorded so the paperwork survives the survey.
What we service
Vessels, offshore facilities and shore sites. Portable equipment through to fixed systems and launching appliances.
Life saving appliances
Lifeboats, rescue boats, davits and release gear, liferafts, immersion suits and EEBDs. Release gear and launching appliances need a technician certified for that make and model, so who attends is part of the scheduling, not an afterthought.
Baseline data
A record of a system's as-installed condition and design parameters. AS 1851 expects it before routine servicing means very much, and its absence is a common finding. Where a legacy install cannot have it established, we record that too, and what it limits.
The paperwork is the product
Anyone can hang a tag on a bottle.
What matters is two years later, when a surveyor asks a question about a specific extinguisher on a specific deck. Which standard applied on the day it was serviced. What that standard required. Who did the work and what they were certified to do. When the defect was found, when you were told, and by when it had to be fixed.
A register that cannot answer those questions is a filing cabinet. We built ours so that it can, and so that nobody, including us, can quietly change the answer afterwards.
- A serialised registerEvery item recorded individually, against the deck or compartment it sits in, so a technician can find it and an auditor can follow it.
- Intervals stored as dated rulesService schedules and task lists are held as versioned records, not baked into software. A certificate issued in 2026 still resolves against the standard that applied in 2026 after the standard is revised.
- Records that cannot be editedOnce a service is signed it is fixed. A correction is a new record that points at the one it replaces, so the history shows what changed rather than hiding it.
- Defect clocksAS 1851 attaches different notification and rectification timeframes to critical and non-critical defects. We record when the owner was told and by when the work is due, because proving timely notification is what matters afterwards.
What we work to
The standards that set the intervals, the task lists and the qualifications behind every record we produce.
- AS 1851
- Routine service of fire protection systems and equipment. Tasks are organised into monthly, six monthly, yearly and five yearly schedules per equipment type, and the higher frequencies roll up into the lower ones, so a yearly service carries the six monthly work with it.
- SOLAS Chapter III
- Maintenance of life saving appliances aboard vessels, including the intervals at which lifeboats, launching appliances and release gear must be examined and operationally tested.
- IMO MSC.402(96)
- Requirements for the maintenance, thorough examination, operational testing, overhaul and repair of lifeboats and rescue boats. It requires the servicing company to be authorised and individual technicians to be certified per make and model.
Talk to us about a vessel or a site
Tell us what equipment is aboard and when it was last looked at. If there is no baseline data and no service history, say so. That is a normal place to start and it changes what we do first, not whether we can help.
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