About Us: Our History and Credentials
Control Fire and Safety, Inc. was formed and began doing business under this name April 1, 1987. Prior to that, the business was owned and operated as Shannon Fire Equipment, a division of Shannon Hardware Co., Ltd.
The current president, Mark Bernucho, was employed by Shannon Hardware in the late 1970s and became its division manager in the early to mid '80s, until Shannon Hardware decided to sell the fire equipment division of the company. This was the beginning of what is now Control Fire and Safety, Inc., located at 822 Front Street in downtown Morgan City, La.
Since that 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 also have been able to increase our sales and services offered by securing distributorships from major manufacturers in our related industry, as well as through continued education and training. Please see our products and services page, our product gallery page, and our manufacturers' links page for more information about our sales and services.
Certifications, licensing, and acceptable agencies and affiliations; Control Ffire and Safety, Inc. is an American Bureau of Shippers (ABS) certified facility, and a United States Coast Guard (USCG) accepted facility. We are a state of Louisiana Fire Marshals 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 six (6) continued-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 falls under the requirements of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ( SCUBA) visual inspection by means of the visual eddy (eddy current) due to sustained load cracking 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 also are certified as required by DOT to put hazardous materials of commerce into transportation, also with a (3) three-year recurred training program in place. Every five (5) 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 as required by DOT. This retesters identification number, or RIN number, also is required by DOT to enable us to do a visual inspection of a commonly used low-pressure DOT-specified dry chemical fire extinguisher like most of you have in your work place or homes.
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 and Safety, Inc. is fully insured and has a 10-point Louisiana Workman's Compensation Corporation safety management plan actively in place.
Memberships industy-related and nonrelated 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 Saint 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 reached.
Sincerely,
Mark J. Bernucho
President
