ife singapore branch member’s night cum technical talk

IFE SINGAPORE BRANCH

MEMBER’S NIGHT CUM

TECHNICAL TALK

IFE Singapore Branch organized its first Member’s Night under the new

management council (2018/2020 term) on Friday, 21 September, at Hotel

Jen.

71 members attended the event, which included a technical talk on Video

Imaging Fire Detection Systems by Fike Corporation and presentation of

membership certificates to new members. In conjunction with this event,

there was also a signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between

IFE Singapore Branch and COSEM.

President Mr Christopher Tan also took the opportunity to explain to

members on the impending increase in the membership fee by IFE (UK) and

the need for our local branch to follow suit to cope with rising operation

cost.

Members and guest were treated to a sumptuous Chinese dinner. Special

thanks to Acclaim Systems Pte Ltd and Acclaim Systems (Asia) Pte Ltd for

sponsoring this event.

Issue No. 17

Jul - Sep 2018

Inside This Issue

IFE Members Night Cum Technical Talk

Notice Board

SCDF Circular

Quiz

1-2 3- 12 13- 26 27

Vice President K

Ramanathan signing

MOU with

Mr Anthony Pek of

COSEM, witnessed by

President Christopher

Tan

President Christopher Tan with the Sponsors of the Members’ Night,

Mr Michael Mok and Mr Chiaw Fund Shern from Acclaim

Systems Pte Ltd and Acclaim Systems (Asia) Pte Ltd.

Members partaking the good food and camaraderie.

NOTICE BOARD

Special Interest Group – Fire Safety Engineer

In the last publication, we introduced the Special Interest Group ( SIG ) – Fire Investigation. We are

glad to inform our members that this SIG has various activities already in the pipe line.

In this publication, we are pleased to introduce another special interest group – Fire Safety

Engineering. This SIG has just been formed with Er Yeo Swee Khiank as the group leader. Other

members in the group include Mr Liew Kim Hoe, Er Shyam Dayapalan, Mr Brian Chin, Er Yeow Mei

Leng, and Miss Ruth Wong.

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UPCOMING EVENTS…

1) Fire Code 2018 Seminar (half day)

Date : 8 January 2019

Venue : University Cultural Centre (UCC) Hall 1, 50 Kent Ridge Cresent, S-119279

Time : 12:30 – 6:00 pm

Please see details on page 6, 7 and 8

2) Technical talk on Structural Fire Protection and On-Site Pit falls of Passive Fire Protection

Date : 18 January 2019

Venue : Auditorium (Level 1), UE BizHub Central, 12 Ang Mo Kio St 64, S-569088

Time : 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please see details on page 4 and 5

3) Net-Working Golf

Date : Tentatively March 2019 ( Details to be announced later )

SERVICING AND MAINTENANCE

OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS – 43rd

RUN

The 43rd run of the popular Fire Extinguisher

Servicing and Maintenance course was

conducted from 2nd to 10th July.

15 participants went through a 6 night theory

cum practical training program, with an

examination conducted at the end of the

program before they were certified as

competent.

In this course, 14 of the participant performed

well and passed the examination with 1 failed

to make it.

FIRE NEWS QUIZ 17

WIN a NTUC Shopping Voucher of $20 by answering the following question correctly

Question:

Please point out one mistake of the sprinkler installation in the picture below;

Please point out one mistake of the sprinkler installation in the attached pic

Please send your answer together with your name, membership number, contact number and

email address by 15, Dec 2018 to [email protected] , with the subject heading as “IFE

Contest”. If we receive correct answers from a few participants, the winner will be selected by

means of balloting by the council.

For Fire News Quiz 16, we regret to have received no correct answer to the quiz, therefore no price

award will be giving out.

The correct answers for Quiz 16 is:

1) Class A medium hazard for the workshop, Class A low hazard for the office, and Class B

medium hazard for the store with flammable liquid.

2) 1x21A at the workshop, 1x13A at the office, and 2x113B (or 3x70B ) of foam extinguisher

for the flammable liquid store.

3) The relevant Singapore standard is SS 578: 2012.

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