Fire Indicator Panel FIP Sign

Fire indicator panel identification, 600 x 100mm horizontal, with the unauthorised entry restriction beneath.

The FIP is the first thing a responding fire crew looks for, which makes this one of the few signs in a building whose value is measured in seconds. It is usually mounted at the main entry, often adjacent to the hydrant booster, and it needs to be identifiable from outside the building rather than only once you are standing in front of it.

Composite ACM white and silver brushed at $35, satin natural anodised aluminium at $40. Where the panel sits in a lobby that the public passes through, the brushed finishes sit more comfortably with the rest of the building’s signage; where it is in a back-of-house riser, white ACM reads more clearly.

One per panel. If the building also has a sub fire alarm panel on an upper level — common where a single FIP would be too far from part of the building — that takes its own sign, and the two should not carry the same wording.