Description

The Design and Installation of Voice Alarm Systems is the essential guide to the British standard BS 5839-8. The book offers in-depth analysis of the key standard against which voice alarm systems for fire warning are designed, commissioned, installed and maintained.

This practical book gives detailed guidance for voice alarm systems and will be of interest to fire safety professionals, building control officers, environmental health officers, consulting engineers, electrical contractors and the main users of voice alarm systems.

How will the guide to BS 5839-8 help me? The book:
Explains the reasons for the recommendations in the Code
Outlines the consequences of failures to satisfy the recommendations
Provides detailed guidance on how to satisfy the recommendations.

The book offers clear guidance with plenty of examples, and explains the reasoning behind the recommendations made in BS 5839-8, with detailed guidance on how to meet the recommendations.

It also covers voice alarm systems use for purposes other than fire warning.

Contents of the Guide to BS 5839-8 include:
Introduction
Voice alarm systems and standards – a short history
The role of voice alarm systems in fire warning
Scope of BS 5839-8
Contents of the Code
Defining the terms
Types of systems and the evacuation plan
System planning considerations, including exchange of information and responsibilities and variations
Interface between the voice alarm system and the fire detection and fire alarm system
Fault monitoring, integrity and reliability of circuits external to the VACIE
Typical arrangements of voice alarm systems
Voice alarm control and indicating equipment (VACIE)
Power supplies
Use of voice alarm systems for purposes other than warning of fire
Loudspeakers, loudspeaker zones and loudspeaker circuits
Power amplifiers
Ambient noise sensing and compensation
Emergency and non-emergency messages
Audibility and intelligibility
Emergency message generators
Emergency microphones
Wiring
Radio-linked systems
Voice sounders
Climatic and environmental conditions, radio and electrical interference and electrical safety
Installation
Commissioning and handover
Maintenance
User responsibilities

Other standards in the BS 5839 series are available via the TRADA Bookshop, plus various helpful guides to specific parts of the standard have been published: BS 5839-1:2002+A2:2008 and its guide BIP 2109:2008; BS 5839-3:1988; BS 5839-6:2004; BS 5839-8:2008 and its guide BIP 2124:2009; BS 5839-9:2003 and the main guide BIP 2111:2008 Comprehensive guide to fire safety.