Cold Room Entrapment Alarms & Why You Need Them

Cold rooms can pose a healthy and safety risk to your employees and team members if they are not educated on proper cold room management, and if your cold room isn’t regularly maintained and serviced.

There are a range of factors that impact cold room safety, but one of the greatest risks when it comes to cold rooms is one your team members being trapped inside. This is particularly dangerous in walk-in freezers due to the negative temperatures, which can result in hypothermia and even death.

But MTCSS has a solution to reduce the risk of employees being trapped in your cold rooms, and to improve safety – cold room entrapment alarms.

Cold room entrapment alarms can be installed in your walk-in fridges and walk-in freezers to ensure if someone does become trapped in your cold room, they are able to alert others and are let out as soon as possible.

Entrapment alarms use flashing red lights and an alarm siren to alert people outside of the cold room when someone is trapped inside. It’s operated from the inside of the cold room using an alarm cable or push button.

This reduces the health and safety risk in the eventually someone does become trapped within your cold room. Issues with your cold room doors are the most common reason personnel get tripped – if your door seal or cold room door handle is broken, this can cause problems with opening and closing the doors. This is why cold room maintenance and service is vital for health and safety, in addition to efficiency and longevity.

MTCSS can provide entrapment alarms as part of your cold room installation, or for supply and delivery only on our E-commerce store, UKColdroomspares!

Benefits of Cold Room Entrapment Alarms

• Suitable for walk-in fridges and walk-in freezers down to -40°C
• Improve safety for your personnel
• Permanent location light
• External red flashing alarm siren
• Internal reassurance light when alarm is activated
• Options for push button and pull cord operation

If you are looking for a solution to improve your cold room’s safety, or you have a cold room project in the works, get in touch with the MTCSS team! Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, or fill in an enquiry form below!