Conducting regular fire door surveys and inspections allows building managers to identify and address any deficiencies, ensuring fire doors provide maximum protection. A robust inspection program should include ongoing visual checks by trained staff and comprehensive surveys by qualified contractors when necessary. These practices help minimize the spread of fire and smoke, giving occupants sufficient time to evacuate safely in an emergency. Maintaining fire doors through proactive inspections and repairs is crucial for compliance with fire codes and the safety of all building occupants.
Fire doors are an integral fire protection measure found in nearly all buildings. Also termed fire-resisting doorsets, they help stop the spread of fire and smoke between compartments.
Fire-resisting walls and floors, known as fire compartmentation, work in conjunction with fire doors to subdivide the building and protect escape routes. This critical level of passive fire protection is a legal requirement mandated by building codes and fire safety regulations.
Given their heavy day-to-day use along with potential for misuse or vandalism, fire doors are prone to damage. Regular inspections and prompt repairs are imperative to keep them functioning as intended. Proactive maintenance ensures fire doors continue to serve their vital purpose of impeding fire and smoke to save lives and property.
Ensuring fire door compliance
As fire doors experience heavy daily use, they are prone to damage over time. To keep them protecting your property to required legal standards, regular inspections and ongoing maintenance are essential.
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 mandates that the responsible person implement measures to reduce fire risks. This includes inspecting fire doors on a routine basis. Staying compliant involves being proactive by scheduling thorough checks and swiftly rectifying any problems identified. Keeping fire doors well-maintained through a program of inspections and repairs ensures they continue serving their critical purpose of resisting the spread of fire and smoke.
How can Phoenix Executive can help with fire door surveys
Our fire safety consultants are experts at surveying and evaluating your fire doors’ compliance and functionality.
After a comprehensive on-site inspection, we provide a tailored report outlining any deficiencies along with specific advice for rectifying them. This allows you to rapidly address any risks and maintain regulatory conformance.
Our service delivers the detailed insights you need to keep your fire doors optimized. With our reports, you can readily implement repairs, upgrades, and improvements that support robust fire protection. We partner with you to ensure your fire doors keep providing the vital layer of life safety they are designed for.
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email: ray@phoenixexecutive.co.uk
Fire Door is a
Safety Device
Fire doors save lives. Wedging them open endangers everyone in the building. An open fire door negates its fire protection and allows smoke to spread rapidly through the building. It also invalidates your insurance, leaving you unable to claim for stock, contents, loss of earnings, staff wages, interim payments, or documents. Keep fire doors closed. Your life and livelihood depend on it.