Emergency lighting is another area where maintainers overdo it.
Several still do two visits a year conveniently forgetting (or in some cases not knowing themselves) that only an annual duration test is required on top of the monthly flick tests and some do four a year with the fire alarm.
I agree on a lot of fire systems 2 visits is adequate.
Whenever I uncover excess service visits I always find the occupier was going on the companies info as oppose deciding based on a combination of risk/complexity/BS requirements
What's the comparative cost differences between conventional & addressable systems? I sometimes find straightforward simple smaller premises have had an all singing all dancing addressable system put in despite there being little real benefit for the particular area compared to a conventional system
