The Importance of Regular Fire Door Inspections – Commercial & Public Buildings
Fire Door Inspection forms an integral part of passive fire protection within the buildings construction and without the appropriate specifications, a regular expert fire door inspection & quality maintenance procedures, fire doors are significantly less likely to be effective in providing protection for your building and the safety of those contained within, Insist on Third Party Certified Fire Door Inspection & Fire Door Maintenance as “Correctly Fitted & Maintained Fire Doors, Save Lives & Property”.
Fire Doors are in place to protect against the spread of fire and smoke within, into or out of a building, therefore, those responsible for the building and the safety of its occupants need to ensure there is a preventive maintenance program for the fire doors in accordance with fire regulations and this can be established through comprehensive fire door inspection.
Fire door Inspection and testing should be carried out on an annual basis (every 6 months) to ensure their complete compliance and a written record of the fire door inspection should be kept by the person responsible. This fire door inspection report should then be kept in the event it is required.
We undertake a total of 34 industry-specific fire door inspection checks on each and every fire door, we’ll then provide you with a full and detailed report, including pictures, so you can actually see the potential hazards of any incorrectly installed fire doors. Our fire door inspection report will then outline a set of recommendations, including essential works required to meet the current guidelines and safety regulations, as well as a list of non-critical but advisable works.
Why Choose Us For Your Fire Door Inspections?
We don’t leave things to chance when we get involved with your Fire Doors and we make sure that you are covered for all aspects of fire door safety.
The first step in a fire door inspection or a fire door audit, is identification. Whether you are identifying a single fire door or multiple fire doors in a hospital, multi-storey office building or single dwelling, identification is the first step to an easy audit trail.
Our bespoke fire door inspection software allows you to take advantage of advanced electronic identification technologies such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) or barcodes.
Visual identification of assets is prone to human error and generally consists of a minimum 3 to 4 survey sheets. With electronic identification, fire doors are identified instantly and error free, showing any previous defects, who inspected and when, the next planned inspection and the fire door maintenance history of the door.
