| Sufficient fire prevention and fire fighting | | | | handles are a metre above the floor. |
| equipment are essential in any structure or | | | | If you already have extinguishers in your school, |
| building. This is especially true in schools and other | | | | yet have no brackets installed, there is no need |
| learning institutions where the safety and | | | | to fret. The best thing about fire extinguisher |
| well-being of children are of utmost importance. | | | | brackets is that they do not have to be bought |
| Naturally, typical fire-fighting equipment can be | | | | along with the extinguisher; there are brackets |
| found in UK schools, such as fire extinguishers, | | | | that fit almost any brand and dimension of fire |
| fire hoses, fire alarms, and so on. However, | | | | extinguisher. Be it the water, powder, hydrospray, |
| although school children of every age are taught | | | | CO2, or foam-type extinguishers your school |
| the importance of such tools, there are still some | | | | carries for fire protection, there are brackets that |
| who seem to disregard the value of such | | | | are strong enough to carry their weight. |
| equipment. | | | | J-brackets, for instance, are appropriate for |
| This can be unintentional, such as accidentally | | | | almost every type except the 1kg and 2 kg |
| knocking over an extinguisher, or intentional, such | | | | powder-type extinguishers and CO2 extinguishers. |
| as vandalism. Regardless, it is necessary for those | | | | Also known as a 'wall hook', J-brackets are so |
| tasked to oversee the safety of children's life and | | | | termed because they look like the letter 'J' when |
| limb in a school to ensure that such accidents or | | | | turned on their side. CO2 extinguishers, meanwhile, |
| intentional acts to destroy school property are | | | | require a special kind of bracket, which also vary |
| avoided. | | | | depending on the size. This is because there is a |
| Fire extinguisher brackets are simple yet very | | | | little piece of brass at the back of the brass valve |
| effective materials to help avoid damage or | | | | of the CO2 extinguisher which has a hole in the |
| vandalism on life-saving equipment such as fire | | | | middle, different from the structure of other |
| extinguishers, which should not be left to simply | | | | extinguishers. There are 2kg CO2 wall brackets |
| stand against a wall unprotected. Doing this will | | | | for affixing 2kg CO2 extinguishers to the wall. |
| guarantee the fire extinguisher will be knocked | | | | There are also 5kg CO2 wall brackets which are |
| over by students passing by, possibly damaging | | | | necessarily larger because the extinguishers will be |
| the extinguisher or falling on the foot of the | | | | sticking out further from the wall where it is |
| student and causing injury. Worse, the fire | | | | positioned. |
| extinguisher can be moved to an area where it | | | | Whatever the type or size of fire extinguisher |
| will be less of a hazard to passing feet, but less | | | | you have in school, it is necessary that the proper |
| accessible in case of a fire. Fire extinguisher | | | | fire extinguisher brackets are used to ensure the |
| brackets help prevent such scenarios from | | | | safety of both the equipment and the people who |
| happening by fixing the extinguisher into position, | | | | spend almost a third of their entire day in school. |
| preferably at a height where the extinguisher | | | | |
