Many of our customers use Spiroscape as a safe means of escape from contaminated atmospheres. It is fast to deploy, safe for long term storage in a variety of conditions and it is relatively free of expensive maintenance – most spare parts requirements being easily fitted by the user.

In fact, it is the most popular such equipment in our regular hire-list.

If you purchase breathing apparatus; you must be aware that the CoSHH Regulations require your equipment (and any other breathing apparatus or re-usable RPE) to be tested functional at least monthly and otherwise to be tested/serviced according to the approvals granted to it and the test protocol under which it has been approved.

Records of inspection must be maintained for at least five years following the final use of such kit and it is prudent that a record of use is maintained; to help conform with the health (CoSHH) exposure records required, under the Health & Safety at Work Regulations.

As you know, when we hire out equipment, we maintain such details on behalf of our clients (and for our own records). We keep records, confidentially, on your behalf, for at least five years after contracts have ended; so that appropriate reference may be afterwards made.

We keep such records, too, where we are contracted for regular maintenance services on behalf of customers who own RPE. Our standard record sheet allows quick, simple completion and electronic filing, after the service period in question and many customers use this, for convenience.

Each year, performance must be checked, the required flow-rates for the Spiroscape properly confirmed and components tested all functional. Equipment must be clean, stored dry and dust free and defective or worn components replaced in due form.

Every five years, the kit needs complete disassembly and its air cylinder must be proof tested. Test dates, stamped on the cylinder indicate due periods and identify the manufacturer, the UKAS test station and its serial number.

To remove the onus from you and to improve service convenience; our annual, service exchange scheme affords you a fixed price, for up-to-date, properly functioning and recorded equipment - and never the need to pay for expensive cylinder testing and replacement parts (not including accidental, or malicious damage).

Copies of records are sent electronically to you, so that these can be incorprated in to your own audit record. Exchanged units are serviced from our premises and we remind you, a month before service falls due. The price includes all due cylinder testing, replacement and maintenance items, service record maintenance and a twelve month warranty mark: subject to our published terms of business.

To engage this service, we need your kit serial number and type and suitable visit arrangements.  An annual fee per kit is charged: net of carriage (where required) but, usually, we will plan with you, a scheduled service visit to your premises.

The service is subject to our service and hire terms. Notification of price changes will be given at least one month before payment is due. Payment must be made to us, in advance of the service year, from the date of invoice. We must assess the condition of your SDBA suitable for contracts to be undertaken. Should equipment be considered unacceptable, upon instruction, we will restore your equipment subject to our usual charges, where practicable; prior to engaging service exchange agreements. In instances where equipment is not deemed suitable and payment for the first year's service exchange has been pre-paid, customers will have free option for a full refund. Customers may cancel Service exchange agreements at any time during the maximum of five years' duration without penalty, providing we have acknowledged written notice of cancellation at least one month prior to the next, scheduled service. 

General specifications of maintenance for breathing apparatus:

1. Standard Charges for service to Interspiro breathing valve and mask includes necessary replacement O-rings, Valve seat cone and balancing diaphragm and replacement inner mask valve disks. Parts are changed where found necessary after due examination and cleaning. Parts required outside the scope of aggreement are charged extra at published prices, or otherwise advised to the customer in advance.
2. CERTIFICATES OF TEST FOR B.A. & SCUBA INCORPORATING DEMAND VALVES, ARE BASED ON TESTS INDICATED BY THE MANUFACTURER’S PUBLISHED MANUALS AND OTHERWISE APPROXIMATE TO BS/EN TEST STANDARDS. IN PARTICULAR, BREATHING CHARACTERISTICS ARE TESTED TO PROVE COMPETENCE. 
3. COSHH Regulations & Diving Regulations require a written record of Maintenance for all RPD, excepting disposable face-masks and equipment of simple design, to be kept for a minimum of five years, prior to disposal.
4. BS4777 tests: 
5. POSITIVE PRESSURE BA SHALL MAINTAIN A PRESSURE ABOVE AMBIENT IN THE FACE MASK  WHEN THE PEAK INSPIRATION RATE IS AT LEAST 250 LITRES PER MINUTE (> 4.1 LITRES/SEC) BUT NO HIGHER PRESSURE THAN  0.6 KPa AND  EXHALATION PRESSURE SHALL NOT EXCEED  0.9 Kpa AT 250 LITRES/MIN NOR 0.6 Kpa DURING ANY EXHALATION.
6. NEGATIVE PRESSURE BA SHALL EXHIBIT EXHALATION CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SAME RANGE AND REQUIRE AN INHALATION OPERATING PRESSURE NO GREATER THAN 0.3KPa BELOW AMBIENT PRESSURE TO START THE AIR FLOW NOR SHALL THE PRESSURE REDUCE BY MORE THAN 0.5 Kpa BELOW AMBIENT WHEN THE PEAK BREATHING RATE IS 120 LITRES/MIN
7. EN136/137/250/402 testing:
8. SIMILAR TESTS WILL BE CONDUCTED BUT AT PEAK INHALATION AND EXHALATION RATES OF AT LEAST 300 LITRES/MIN. WHERE THE INHALATION PHASE MUST MAINTAIN POST ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE BUT NO HIGHER THAN BY 0.4 Kpa AND THE MAXIMUM EXHALATION PRESSURES WILL BE: (OPENING PRESSURE) <0.6KPa, (@ 160 LITRES/MIN) <0.7 KPa and (@ 300 LITRES/MIN) <1.0 KPa.
9. BREATHING TESTS ARE CONDUCTED USING MANOMETERS ACCURATE TO +/- 0.01 kPa AND FLOW CHECK TESTS ACCURATE TO +/- 10%.
10. OTHER TESTS ACCORD WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE APPROVED MANUALS, THOSE OF COSHH, DSEAR, PPE and other UK Regulation, as found appropriate to equipment application.

 Compliance records can be maintained using our form H2/11/981, available in pads of 100