When someone determines to take a risk and launch a business, he or she quickly discovers just how many tiny particulars must be addressed. There are innumerable legal, practical and safety issues that occur just in the early stages alone, before the business can even be up and running, and just as many - or more - in the everyday functions and growth periods as well. Fire prevention and flameproofing fall under the 'safety' category, and a business owner could wonder, even though it’s a legal requirement, if flameproofing treatments really work or if they’re just another money-draining hoop you’re forced to jump through. Today, we intend to demonstrate just how important flameproofing really is for a business and the saving of lives.
One of the first things you learn when you are studying any field or industry is key terms – those words or phrases that are of particular importance to the work you’ll be doing. Once you become an expert in that field, that terminology almost becomes your second language and may sound foreign to an outsider. Others may even misuse some of those terms, not too unlike someone who is just a beginning to learn a different language. In the field of flameproofing, we often hear a few terms used incorrectly. While we can still decipher the meaning, we want to clarify two important terms that many people use interchangeably, but are actually fairly different. Those terms are ‘flameproofing’ and ‘fireproofing.’