Fire Door Safety Week 2015
A door’s a door, right? No, a fire door is an engineered safety device.
Fire doors are a crucial part of the passive fire protection of every commercial, public and multiple occupancy building. They save lives and property. There are about 3 million new fire doors bought and installed every year in the UK, the vast majority made from timber. Fire doors are often the first line of defence in a fire and their correct specification, maintenance and management can be the difference between life and death for building occupants. However, they remain a significant area of neglect, often the first thing to be downgraded on a specification and mismanaged throughout their service life, propped open, damaged and badly maintained. Supported by a wide range of organisations, Fire Door Safety Week is the brainchild of the British Woodworking Federation, BWF-CERTIFIRE Scheme and Fire Door Inspection Scheme (FDIS). Get a Fire Risk Assessment carried out by professional assessors today to find out if your fire doors are up to fire safety regulations or if you have any other fire safety breaches.
The Fire Minister, Rt Hon Mark Francois MP, is a high profile supporter of Fire Door Safety Week again this year: “Fire doors offer vital protection and can make a real difference to the impact of a fire. I commend the British Woodworking Federation and supporting organisations for this excellent industry-led Fire Door Safety Week and encourage everyone to use this timely reminder to check their fire doors, keep them closed and report any substandard ones to the owners of the building.”
Fire Door Safety Week was created:
- To raise awareness of the critical role of fire doors, drawing attention to specific issues such as poor installation and maintenance.
- To encourage building owners and users to check the operation and condition of their fire doors and to report those that aren’t satisfactory.
- To link together the initiatives of many organisations with common interests in the fire door and passive fire protection industries.
- To engage and educate people, helping the whole building industry and every property owner to understand the correct specification, supply, installation, operation, inspection and maintenance of fire doors.
News Story Links
Here is the link to the Fire Door Safety Week 2015 page with all the information:
Fire Door Safety Week 2015
Here is the link to the BWF wesbite where you can download FREE PDFs about fire doors and regulations:
FREE PDFs to download about fire doors and regulations:
Fire Risk Assessment in Aberdeen
Realm Fire & Security provide Fire Risk Assessments, in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, as per National legislation and with competent fire risk assessors. The local fire authority no longer issue fire certificates and any existing certificates are invalid, as stated in the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 Part 3 and The Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006.
