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As we are all aware SANS 10139:2012 is 6 years out of date and major changes have been made to the British Standard that the South African standard follows. We highly recommend these changes be adopted and implemented into the industry until such time as the SABS make these changes.
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SANS 246 OR NOT ?
Since the introduction of the update to SANS 246 in 2015 there seems to be confusion in the industry as to where this standard gets used.
The earlier edition of SANS 246 applied to ALL electronic environments but due to the much stricter requirements for larger more critical electronic areas the latest standard removed references to environments that were categorised slight or low risk.
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FIRE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
It is continually asked "what is the legal requirement to install a fire detection system?".
For this we have to refer to the building Code of Practise SANS 10400. This states:-