ABOUT US OUR HISTORY AND CREDENTIALS
Control Fire and Safety, LLC was formed and began doing business under the name April 1, 1987. Prior to this the business was owned and operated as Shannon Fire Equipment, a division of Shannon Hardware Co., LTD.
The current Manager/Member Mark Bernucho of Control Fire & Safety, LLC was employed by the Shannon Hardware Co., Ltd. since the late 1970s and became its divison manager in the early to mid 1980s, until it was decided upon by Shannon Hardware Co., Ltd to sell the fire equipment division of the company and this was the inception of what in now known as Control Fire & Safety, LLC located at 822 Front Street in downtown Morgan City, La.
Since this time we have strived to provide our client base with the most up-to-date technology available in today's market in sales and services offered by our firm. We believe in servicing you, our valued customer, with honesty, integrity and the best quality and workmanship available.
Over the years we have also been able to increase our sales and services offered by securing distributorships from major manufacturers in our related industry as well as continued education and training. Please see our products and services offered page, our product gallery page, and our manufacturers links page for more information about our sales and services offered.
Certifications, licensing and acceptable agencies affiliations; Control Fire & Safety, LLC is an American Bureau of Shippers (ABS) certified facility and United States Coast Guard (USCG) accepted facility. We are a state of Louisiana state fire marshal's office licensed firm, and all technicians are licensed and have been tested to state certified standards and the standards set forth by the National Fire Protection Association (nfpa). We obtain annually (6) continuing education credits per person per license held per year. We are a certified Department of Transportation (DOT) cylinder requalifier retest or (hydrostatic test) facility for (DOT) specified and non-(DOT) specified cylinders. We are certified and capable of in-house hydrostatic cylinder testing, recharging and the visual inspection of high and low pressure (DOT) and non-(DOT) cylinders with a 3-year recurred training program in place. Our visual inspection program for the inspection of high pressure (DOT) cylinders that fall under the requirements of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCB) and self-contained under water breathing apparatus (SCUBA) visual inspection by means of the visual eddy (eddy current) due to sustained load cracking (SLC) in the neck area of the cylinder, we are equipped with the visual eddy (eddy current) machine and hold a professional cylinder inspectors (psi) certificate with a (3) three-year recurred training program in place as required by (DOT) for the operation and use of the visual eddy (eddy current) machine. We are also certified as required by (DOT) to put hazardous materials of commerce (into transportation) also with a (3) three-year reoccurring training program in place as well. Every (5) five years we are required to have a third-party independent inspection agency do a facility evaluation/inspection and make a recommendation to (DOT) for the renewal of our retester identification number or (RIN) number as required by (dot). This retesters identification number or (RIN) number is also required by (DOT) to able us to do a visual inspection of a commonly used low pressure (DOT) specified dry chemical fire extinguisher as most of you have in your work place or homes and are familiar with. Do you really know who is providing you with these services? Ask them for their credentials; we will be glad to furnish you with ours. We are a certificated ACR electronics battery replacement center for many of their products. Control fire & Safety, LLC is fully insured and has a 10-point Louisiana workers' compensation corporation (LWCC) safety management plan actively in place.
Memberships industry related and non-related memberships include National Fire Protection Association, National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors, Compressed Gas Association, National Safety Council, U.S. chamber of commerce, Saint Mary Parish chamber of commerce, and the Mary Industrial Group.
If you have any problems or questions, please feel free to contact us. Please see our contact us page for information on how we can be contacted.
Sincerely,
Mark J. Bernucho
Manager/Member
