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Insurance Compliance
The Health & Safety at Work Regulations and Fire Regulations,
require premises owners and managers to carry out risk
assessments on a regular basis which include extraction
systems and to act upon the results of these risk assessments,
to eliminate the risk of fire.
We are increasingly dealing with companies, whose insurers require systems cleaned by professional contractors at frequencies in line with the HVCA TR/19 guidelines.
| Usage |
Hours/day |
TR/19 |
| Heavy |
12-16 |
3 monthly |
| Moderate |
6-12 |
6 monthly |
| Light |
2-6 |
12 monthly |
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Two recent court-cases concerning uncleaned extract systems highlighted that the cleaning companies involved were not specialists.
Insurers are increasingly demanding that deep cleaning should be carried out in accordance with advice given in the HVCA's Guide to Good Practice
TR/19, and only contractors who can comply with this guidance should be retained.
TR19 recommends that a post-clean report should include a sketch or
schematic of the system indicating where
access panels have been installed and where there are any uncleaned
areas, with a written explanation of why such areas could not be
accessed or cleaned.
Richard Norman
Vice Chair HVCA
Check your insurance terms and make sure you are compliant.
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