Bartec Group’s founder and CEO, Robert J. Barrett comes from a lineage of individuals involved in life safety; his great-grandfather was fire chief for the Steel Company of Canada, Ltd., and his father, was first fire chief in Roxboro, QC, tragically losing his life in the line of duty. Barrett himself served as a volunteer fire fighter in his hometown of Morin Heights, QC from '71-'73.
Barrett established Bartec Fire Safety Systems in 1980, seven years after moving to Vancouver, his vision to serve the live safety needs of the community. Realizing that to thrive in a Darwinian Business era where survival was only of the fittest, Barrett’s first task was to evaluate the possibilities, make sound choices, and then maximize the business potential for Bartec within the fast growing community. Knowing this meant building a professional team that would be able to deliver high quality products with optimum efficiency. His intent was to build a solution-oriented business, offering his clients the highest quality products and service at a reasonable price that also made sound business sense for Bartec. This required solid values being set as unmoveable cornerstones in his founding principles. That would define boundaries and allow for constantly clarification of the vision and re-establishment the mandates in order to achieve the objectives in and over time.
Those values were and remain:
Transparency in a relationship based business: Openness begins with staff, and extends to clients.
Integrity: A job is complete when Bartec staff can answer “Yes.” to the question, ‘Would we stay with our newborn child in this building overnight?”
Responsibility; Barrett knew that then and now that Bartec's clients must accept being equal partners in maintaining the life safety of those in their building, understanding that Bartec’s responsibility is to serve while being fully versed in all codes, updates or other changes, and remaining aware of state of the art equipment.