Your responsibility for fire doors… There is often confusion about who’s responsibility the fire doors in a building actually falls too, the bottom line is that EVERYONE involved in the life of a fire door, from the fire door inspection through, to its specification and maintenance, is responsible for protecting the building and its occupants….
Read more ›Fire Doors in the Workplace… Every year there are around 650 fires in the workplace, fire presents significant risk to business, not only can it destroy valuable stock equipment and building infrastructure, it can also seriously injure or even cause death to employees or visitors. Many causes of fires in the workplace could be avoided…
Read more ›How important are fire doors? If you own or manage a building then it’s essential that you follow the necessary health and safety regulations to protect your building and its occupants, whilst meeting with the current fire safety legislation. If you need to find out more about the current legislation, you can visit the government’s…
Read more ›Everyone in the building needs a safe passage in the event of a fire… A building manager has difficult job to ensure they consider the safety of every individual that may regularly use or access their building and one vitally important consideration to make is how people will cope with opening or closing fire doors. In…
Read more ›Why is a fire door important? With modern fire doors sometimes it is difficult to see that it is actually a fire door, this could also be said for a ‘Fire Door Upgrade’, which you’ll often see in period building as they want to keep the look of the existing door but ‘fire proof’ it….
Read more ›What is a fire door inspection? Fire Doors are an integral part of passive fire protection within the buildings construction and without the appropriate specifications, regular expert fire door inspections & quality maintenance procedures, then fire doors that are significantly less likely to be effective in providing protection for your building and the safety of…
Read more ›What are Fire Door Regulations? There are a number of fire door regulations which apply to both new and existing buildings across the UK and they do vary depending on whether it is a new building or an existing building. In the case of new buildings, or those which include alterations, extensions or change of…
Read more ›Why is fire door installation so important? All of us who use or occupy any building need to know that we will be safely protected should a fire break out, but unfortunately this is not always the case. The building itself my fail to stand up to the fire or perhaps one of the fire safety devices fail because they…
Read more ›Fire Door Maintenance Overview When the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 came into force over in England and Wales it transferred the responsibility for Fire Safety from the fire authorities to whoever has day-to-day responsibility for the premises. The responsible person must ensure they take steps to reduce the risk from fire for those…
Read more ›Fire Door Inspection… Being responsible for the safety of those using your building is a vitally important task for anyone, let’s face it, can anyone put a value on a life when it comes to making a building safe for those that use it in an event of a fire? We believe that this responsibility…
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