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HOW SAFE T SENSOR™ SAVES MONEY?
The Facts
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•Microwave ovens are involved in more than 7,000 home structure res every year.
•That’s more than 19 res every day!
•Microwaves are also responsible for more emergency room injury visits than any other cooking
device.
•More surprising however, is magnitude of false re alarm activations from microwave ovens.
(Source: NFPA)
The Cost
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False alarms, or nuisance alarms, are a massively expensive problem for many facilities – especially our
nation’s colleges and universities. Apart from wasting thousands of dollars, false alarms can also
create very unfortunate behaviour risks. When people hear a false alarm too often, and consistently nd
there is no actual re risk, they become conditioned to down-play future alarms or even ignore them
altogether. As one Ohio University student put it:
“When I hear the alarm go off, I tend to shrug it off or sigh because it’s almost never real.”
The Study
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Ohio University’s Environmental Health and Safety Department (EHS) partnered with the local Athens Fire
Department (AFD) to study the number of on-campus nuisance alarms and what was causing them.
They found the AFD was responding to more than 100 on campus nuisance alarms annually; and most
of them were caused by burnt food in microwave ovens! With each nuisance run costing more than
$2,000, Ohio University discovered they were spending more than $200,000 annually because of false
alarm activations from microwave ovens.
The Solution
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Safe-T-Sensor™. After installing thousands of Safe-T-Sensors on their on-campus microwave ovens, Ohio
University saw a 92 percent drop in the number of false alarms activations. The investment literally paid
for itself in no time.
“The investment in these sensors has reduced re runs, response hazards, late night residence
evacuations, interruption in study time and the cost of re equipment operation, campus police
and personnel required to investigate.”
(Brent Auker, Fire Protection Engineer, Ohio University)
(To read more about the Ohio Case study, Safe-T-Sensor, or how other Pioneering products can help protect
against cooking res and save your building or facility money, please visit pioneeringtech.com.
We help protect people and property.)