Since 2016 IAQ services has been working closely with 14 shopping centres to address fire safety concerns that the group stakeholders had with regards the kitchen extraction systems within numerous tenanted restaurants within the centres.

Our auditors surveyed 265 individual restaurant ductwork systems and highlighted several concerns in 90% of the tenanted restaurants regarding system design, cleaning, and reporting standards.

Ian Gregory worked closely with the landlords H&S, Maintenance and Commercial stakeholders to develop an in-house ductwork cleaning policy with safety notices in line with BESA TR19, the industry standard for fire safety within kitchen ventilation systems.

Regular auditing and management reviews with the landlord, tenants and cleaning contractors as well as an overview on system design in new fit outs has helped to reduce the landlords risk rating with their commercial insurers and reduce the audit failure rate significantly.