Fire follows four stages – ignition, growth, fully developed, and decay (burnout). In order to ensure that a fire does not progress beyond the first stage, adequate detection and suppression technology needs to be in place.

A comprehensive risk analysis is the first step towards coming up with a solution that is viable and will achieve the desired results. When one is aware of the why and how the challenge is coming, a ...

Our homes are usually ignored and left to chance when it comes to fire protection. This is due to ignorance and lack of legislation concerning fire protection in private homes that are not in complexes. ...

DeepAlert’s customers, partners and industry professionals invited to see COMMAND, SceneIQ, AlertIQ and SiteIQ demonstrated live at the Nitida Wine Estate on 29 October 2026.

Following the launch of Solo, Paxton’s new phone-based, cloud-hosted access control system, the company is significantly increasing its investment in South Africa by expanding its local team to support installers and customers nationwide.

A particularly nasty truth sits at the centre of cybersecurity in 2026. You can do everything right and still lose if the organisation holding your identity number, banking information, medical history, or biometric data gets breached.

Bringing patrol, incident, and H&S reporting onto a single platform: a security operation should be able to show what happened, when it happened, and how personnel responded.

Fire and explosion incidents are becoming a critical business resilience challenge as ageing infrastructure, unstable electricity, climate pressures, and limited emergency response capacity converge.

As warehouses grow taller, supply chains become faster, and storage densities increase, fire safety has become a strategic business imperative. Michael van Niekerk explains how South African businesses can manage fire risks effectively, while remaining compliant with increasingly stringent regulations.