Cold Room Entrapment Alarms: What Are They & Why Do You Need Them?

For businesses with cold rooms ensuring quality of your products is of the utmost importance. But so is ensuring the important of your employees and team members.

With personnel moving in and out of your walk in chiller and freezer cold rooms on a daily basis, you need to have safe guards in place to ensure their safety. If a member of your team is trapped in your cold room, this can lead to a serious hazard. Chiller and freezer cold storage rooms purposely maintain low temperatures – so if someone is trapped in your cold room for a prolonged period of time, this poses a health and safety risk.

Cold room entrapment alarms are installed in industrial and modular cold rooms to ensure in the event of an employee being trapped in a cold room, there is an alarm system to alert others. This ensures that the individual can be let out of the cold room as soon as possible.

The alarm operates when the employee trapped in the cold room pulls the alarm cable or pushes the button. Then the light outside of the cold room will start flashing red with an alarm siren, to let others know there is someone trapped in the walk in cold room.

The MTCSS Shop hosts a range of cold room entrapment alarms suitable for chiller and freezer cold rooms. Features of entrapment alarms include :

• operation to -40°C – making it suitable for freezer cold rooms
• permanent location light
• powerful external red flashing alarm siren
• reassurance light when the alarm is activated
• easy & quick to reset

Cold room entrapment alarms can have different operating functions dependent on your requirements, there are options for push button operation or pull cord operation.

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