Certified fire watch officers for impaired-system, hot-work, and construction-phase compliance.
When a sprinkler is impaired, a fire alarm panel is offline, or a hot-work permit is issued, Nova Scotia's Fire Safety Act and the National Fire Code of Canada require a dedicated fire watch. We deploy certified, log-carrying officers within hours — on hospital wings, hotel floors, industrial plants, and construction sites — the moment your protection system is compromised.
A fire watch is not a security posting — it is a life-safety obligation. Our fire watch officers are trained in NFC-2020 and NFPA 25/72 impairment procedures, know how to distinguish smoke from process vapour, are drilled on evacuation and alarm-pull protocols, and carry the exact log book that a Halifax Regional Fire Inspector or your insurer's loss-control engineer will ask to see.
We are dispatched most often for four scenarios: (1) sprinkler system impairment during retrofit or repair, (2) fire alarm panel or detection loop offline for maintenance, (3) hot-work operations — welding, cutting, grinding, roofing torches — under a permit that requires a dedicated watcher for the burn window plus 60 minutes, and (4) construction-phase fire watch on wood-frame highrises where the standpipe or sprinkler system is not yet functional.
Every officer we assign to a fire watch post in Nova Scotia carries a provincial security licence, a current Standard First Aid + CPR-C certificate, an active WHMIS certification, hot-work-permit awareness, and site-specific orientation completed before the first shift. Our supervisors have working relationships with Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency, Cape Breton Regional Fire, and the provincial Office of the Fire Marshal — so your inspector never meets a stranger at the door.
Fire watch documentation is where most sites fail their inspection. Our log book captures a timestamped patrol every 15, 30, or 60 minutes (per your impairment plan), each panel and pull-station checked, ambient conditions, any anomalies, radio contacts with the fire safety coordinator, and evacuation drills conducted. Logs are handed to your facility manager at every shift change and archived digitally for insurance and AHJ disclosure.