Evacuation Plans Made and Mounted in Our Own Workshop
Most suppliers handle one or the other. Consultancies write the scheme and send the signage away to be printed, and online printers will print a plan you have already drawn but cannot help with much else.
We are a workshop in Bream Bay, twenty five minutes from Whangarei, with our own laser. We make up the plans, the notices, and the equipment and door labelling the plan refers to, and we are still here when a fit-out moves a wall and it all needs updating.
We should be clear that we are a manufacturer rather than an evacuation scheme consultancy. If you need the scheme itself written, we are happy to point you towards someone who specialises in that.
Fire and Emergency's application asks you to have a site plan and floor plan showing the means of escape, along with the proposed scheme, sprinkler certification if that applies, the fire action sign or notice, and the evacuation training programme. Applications are assessed within 20 working days, and that can be extended by up to 10 more if further information is needed.
Separately, regulation 7(4) of the 2018 Regulations asks for clear, distinct and legible signs and notices summarising the evacuation procedure to be displayed at appropriate places in the building. The Regulations also set out how they should look, with a safety blue background, white border, white lettering and printed lettering at least 5 mm high.
Worth knowing: a displayed evacuation diagram in the Australian AS 3745 sense is not required by New Zealand law. It is still usually worth having, because your approved scheme may commit you to one, your insurer may ask for it, and a plan on the wall genuinely helps people find their way out of an unfamiliar building.
Send us your floor plan or evacuation plan in whatever form you have it, whether that is a PDF, an image, an architectural drawing or the artwork your scheme consultant produced. If all you have is a photo of the old one on the wall, that is fine too and we have worked from less.
We lay it out so it is legible at the size it will actually be read from, then print and mount it on rigid composite or frame it, and fit it if you would like us to. Legibility is the most common problem we see, usually where a plan has been scaled down from an A3 drawing into an A4 frame and hung at head height in a corridor where nobody can really read it.
At the same time we can make everything else the building needs, including fire action notices to the regulation specification, equipment location signs, alarm panel and zone labels, door and room numbering, and engraved asset tags for the maintenance register.
Framed plans in A4, A3 and A2 in a slimline frame are the usual choice for a lobby, lift landing or corridor.
Rigid mounted plans are printed and mounted on aluminium composite. They wipe clean, there is no glass to break, and they tend to suit stairwells, workshops and industrial buildings better.
Fire action notices are made to the regulation 7(5) specification, with a safety blue background, white border, 5 mm minimum printed lettering and 10 mm white spaces for any hand-written detail. Where a sign needs to stay legible for the life of the building we can engrave it in two tone laminate instead, so the lettering is cut through the surface and will not fade. Equipment and door labelling is made in engraved two tone laminate, acrylic or anodised aluminium.
Building owners and body corporates who have been told they need a scheme and would like it done properly the first time. Facilities and property managers running a portfolio who want the same layout and numbering convention across every building. Fire protection companies who write or maintain schemes and need someone reliable to make the signage, labels and tags.
Tenants fitting out a space often come to us too, because a fit-out is exactly the point at which the existing notice stops being accurate. So do schools, early childhood centres and care facilities, which are relevant buildings regardless of size and hold trial evacuations at intervals of not more than six months.
We keep your artwork on file, so when the building changes a reprint is a small job rather than starting from scratch.
Get a Quote on Evacuation Plans and Signage
Send us the address, the approximate floor area and a photo of the existing notice if there is one, and we will come back with a fixed price and a date. Signage for a straightforward single tenancy is usually a matter of days. Whangarei, Bream Bay, Ruakaka, Marsden Point, Waipu and the wider Northland region are all a site visit for us rather than a courier job.
You supply it. Send a PDF, an architectural drawing, your consultant's artwork or even a photo of the old one, and we will lay it out, make it and mount it.
No, that comes from the Australian standard AS 3745. New Zealand requires a fire action notice on the wall, and a plan is required with a scheme application.
A site plan and floor plan showing means of escape, the proposed scheme, sprinkler certification if applicable, the fire action sign or notice, and the evacuation training programme.
Fire and Emergency assesses applications within 20 working days, and may extend that by up to 10 more if further information is needed or a trial evacuation is to be observed.
If a wall has moved, an extinguisher has been relocated or the tenancy has changed, the plan and notice will be out of date. We keep your artwork on file so a reprint is straightforward.
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