UNDER CONSTRUCTION
ALDI Smoke Alarm Scandal
ALDI Claims:
1. It is "committed to proving safe products",
2. It has "extensive quality assurance processes in place"
to ensure ongoing safety and regulatory compliance.
However, ALDI:
ALDI 'Special Buys' Catalogue Extract
8 March 2017 | Full page here
ALDI's Photoelectric &
ionization Smoke Alarms
Timeline:
1 January 2017
Queensland introduces photoelectric-only legislation.
ionization alarms are not compliant (photoelectric alarms
must be tested to AS3786-2014 - see below)
8 March 2017
ALDI's advertises & sells photoelectric & ionization
'twin pack' throughout Queensland. Both alarms were not compliant with Queensland's photoelectric-only legislation
(see catalogue extract).
15 March 2017
Elderly couple contact Logan House Fire Support Network
(LHFSN) seeking advice on installing ALDI smoke alarms.
16 March 2017
After LHFSN Co-Founder Louie Naumovski discovers ALDI
selling ionization and non-compliant photoelectric alarms, he exposes them on Brisbane's 4BC radio station (see below).
". . . the perfect profiteering
and putting people's lives at risk."
00:42 Louie Naumovski, LHFSN
'Brisbane Live with Ben Davis' | Published: 16 March 2017
'ALDI Fire Alarm Warning'
Louie Naumovski
Logan House Fire
Support Network
Ben Davis
Sports Presenter & Reporter
4BC Brisbane
00:33 Ben Davis
"We have seen that some stores
are still selling ionised alarms."
00:41 Louie Naumovski
"Yep, the perfect marketing and
the perfect profiteering and
putting people's lives at risk."
16 March 2017
ALDI states their alarms comply with 'government legislation'
and that they are able to be used in motor homes and caravans:
17 March 2017
LHFSN & WFSF contact ALDI customer service warning about life-safety issues with ionization alarms.
18 March 2017
When WFSF purchased ALDI twin pak, the store manager (falsely) claims,
"We wouldn't sell them if they didn't comply."
19 - 24 March 2017
LHFSN & WFSF request ALDI remove twin smoke alarm packs from all Queensland stores.
ALDI customer service department refuses insisting their media statement of 16 March (above) is final, that no more correspondence would be entered into, and that, "The case is closed."
(see 22 March below)
22 March 2017
Note: This does not include emails sent by LHFSN and numerous phone calls which resulted in . . .
"ALDI, quite indignant to start with, they
have changed their mind after that pressure . . ."
04:31 Ben Davis, 4BC
'Brisbane Live with Ben Davis' | 24 March 2017
'ALDI Withdraws Banned Smoke Alarms'
Louie Naumovski
Logan House Fire
Support Network
Ben Davis
Sports Presenter & Reporter
4BC Brisbane
00:37 Ben Davis | 4BC
". . . that's why they've said
ionization, no get out, but
ALDI were still selling them."
01:32 Louie Naumovski | LHFSN
"As of this morning they've
removed the sale of the dual
pack from all Queensland stores."
Note:
1. Aldi has not warned Queensland residents that their ionization smoke alarms sold after 1 Jan 2017 are not compliant with Queenslands legislation, and
2. Aldi has not warned Queensland residents that their photoelectric alarms smoke alarms are not compliant with Queenslands legislation (AS3786-2014)
This Standards Marks Licence shows that in March 2017, when Aldi sold their Delta brand photoelectric
smoke alarms throughout Queensland, they were not compliant with Queensland's photoelectric legislation
i.e. they were manufactured (tested) to AS3786-1993*, not AS3786-2014 as required by Queensland's legislation
*
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