Fireproof safes are a type of safe which have been designed to protect its contents from high temperatures or even actual fire.
Fire safes and fire chests are rated by the amount of time that they can withstand the extreme temperatures that a fire produces without the internal temperature rising above a level that will damage the contents. Fireproof safes range anywhere from 30 minutes up to two hours protection.
You will need to choose a suitable fire resistant safe for the contents that you will be storing. Paper, CDs, DVDs, USB memory sticks and magnetic media all get damaged by heat at different temperatures.
Sentry Safe are a well known global brand in the fire safe sector and offer fireproof safes which are fully tested by the Independent merican
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) who are the largest independent non-profit testing laboratory. UL standards are found to be more severe than those in the EU or Far-East testing facilities.
The UL standard requires that fire safes and fire chests pass a flash fire test to ensure that no internal or external rupturing occurs. Finally under the UL standard, the units are drop tested to ensure that they can withstand the impact of falling through a floor.
Top tips when buying a fire safe are to look for what test the safe has
passed and particularly when you are in an office that is not on the ground floor to look for a fireproof safe that has been drop tested to protect the contents from damage.