Fire Prevention Technical Points for Small Catering Establishments: Install Gas Detectors

What are Small Catering Establishments?

Small catering establishments refer to independently constructed single- or multi-story commercial buildings with a floor area not exceeding 200 square meters per floor and no more than three floors, providing commercial catering services. Alternatively, they can be commercial premises located on the first to third floors (or any floor or multiple floors) of a building, with safety exits directly leading to outdoor safe areas, and a floor area not exceeding 200 square meters per floor, providing commercial catering services.

Fire Prevention Technical Points for Small Catering Establishments

1. Ensure unobstructed evacuation routes: Exterior windows should be easily opened or easily broken/removed, with an area not less than 1 square meter, and should not contain obstacles that impede escape and firefighting rescue. Relevant requirements can refer to the standards for fire rescue exits.

2. Strictly control indoor and outdoor flammable decorations and renovations: Exterior wall billboards, light boxes, etc., should preferably be made of non-combustible materials and should not obstruct personnel escape, smoke ventilation, or firefighting rescue, nor should they alter or damage the fire-resistant structure of the building facade.

3. Ensure Kitchen Safety

• The simultaneous use of two or more gaseous or liquid fuels is prohibited in the kitchen.

• The unauthorized storage and use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) cylinders, compressed natural gas (CNG) cylinders, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders, and liquid fuels are strictly prohibited in dining areas.

• Kitchen stoves should be within their safe service life, and stoves, valves, and connecting hoses should meet national standards.

• Kitchens using gas should be equipped with combustible gas detection and alarm devices. Areas using direct-exhaust appliances should be equipped with mechanical exhaust systems.

4. Strengthen Fire Protection Facilities: Small catering establishments without fixed fire protection facilities are encouraged to install simple sprinkler systems, fire hose reels, independent smoke detectors with audible, visual, or voice alarms, and one-button fire alarm evacuation devices.

5. Enhance Personnel Training and Drills: At least one comprehensive fire prevention, firefighting, and evacuation drill should be conducted annually to ensure that all personnel can immediately call the fire department, extinguish initial fires, and guide the safe evacuation of personnel within the premises.

The catering industry is vital to people’s livelihoods, connecting their meals to economic development. However, as a key public sector, gas explosions in restaurants are frequent, causing significant casualties and property damage, and seriously endangering public safety. Many of these accidents stem from inadequate or malfunctioning gas leak alarm systems, leading to missed alarms.

* Outdated and improperly maintained combustible gas detectors.

* Low online rate of combustible gas detectors.

* Use of non-compliant combustible gas detectors.

For catering establishments, a safe and reliable gas leak alarm system is crucial. It must react quickly before the gas concentration reaches a critical point, effectively preventing explosions, fires, poisoning, and other accidents.

Gas Safety Solution for Small Catering Establishments

Addressing the real pain points of compact space layouts, aging equipment posing significant risks, and varying levels of safety awareness among staff in catering establishments, Chicheng Electric has developed a cost-effective intelligent gas safety control system. This system deploys combustible gas detectors, intelligent alarm controllers, solenoid valves, and ventilation systems to monitor combustible gas leakage concentrations in real time, constructing a comprehensive “monitoring-early warning-response” protection system. This enables standardized and precise fire safety management and control in catering establishments. The overall solution is simple to install, low-cost, and easy to maintain.

01 Natural Gas Safety Solution

Considering the characteristics of natural gas—low density, easy diffusion, and tendency to accumulate in spaces like rooftops after leakage—Chicheng Electric offers an intelligent natural gas safety control solution. Combustible gas detectors are installed above gas release sources or potential leak points to promptly and accurately detect gas leaks. When the detected gas leakage concentration reaches the warning level, the gas alarm controller automatically sends control signals to the audible and visual alarms, emergency shut-off valves, and explosion-proof fans, cutting off the gas supply, venting the gas, and simultaneously issuing an alarm to prompt staff to take action and nip potential safety incidents in the bud.

02 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Solution

Chicheng Electric’s integrated combustible gas detector, with its core advantages of “minimalist design and intelligent protection,” creates an independent and efficient gas safety barrier: The device adopts an integrated structure, is compact in size, and allows for flexible installation, perfectly adapting to confined spaces such as kitchens and gas cylinder rooms; its built-in high-sensitivity sensor accurately detects liquefied gas leak concentrations, immediately triggering an audible and visual alarm when the concentration exceeds the standard, independently providing risk warnings without the need for an external host.

The instrument can wirelessly connect to Chicheng Electric’s smart cloud platform, enabling intelligent management functions such as leak concentration curve analysis, multi-terminal remote monitoring, and abnormal event tracing, providing a “zero-threshold deployment, all-day protection” gas safety solution for catering, industrial, and other scenarios.

The smoke and fumes of small restaurants should not become a safety “powder keg.” Through policy constraints, technological empowerment, and proactive management, catering operators can reduce the gas accident rate to zero. Installing an alarm system buys peace of mind, earns a good reputation, and upholds responsibility. 21 years of dedicated craftsmanship, safeguarding the gas environment! Chicheng Electric will always safeguard the safety of catering businesses!