European Standard for Fog Security
After several years of committee work under CENELEC in Brussels, full agreement among all 30 members have now been reached on the new standard for fog protection in Europe. On April 1st this year the standard – CENELEC EN 50131-8 – became a reality.
As representative for Denmark (DS), Poul Dalsgaard from Protect A/S, has been a member of the working group.
The standard will have an impact on all countries' current rules for fog protection, since it replaces the individual national / local regulations.
PROTECT meets the new requirements - Alarm installers must be trained
The CENELEC standard describes a number of requirements for the fog generators, the consumer elements (fog fluid) and the installations.
These include a requirement that the installer must have received education and technical training on the fog generators, they are installing.
"We already live up to the specified requirements of the new standard" says Poul Dalsgaard. "Concerning the sections about the training of alarm installers we have for years invested much money and resources in this. Thus, more than 900 alarm installers and other professionals in Denmark have already been on technical courses at Protect A/S."
What happens now?
As mentioned, the standard was adopted on April 1st 2009.
By October 1st 2009 it must be available and published as national standard in all 30 member countries.
Absolutely no later than April 1st 2010 the standard must be in force in each country.
Read more about the new standard from Cenelec and security fog protection (PDF)
14.05.2009
