If you manage a commercial property, if you are an office manager, or if you rent a residential property, it is absolutely essential that you carefully inspect the fire doors that are installed within the property.
A fire door is a critical part of a building’s fire safety plan. With this exit point in place, you can develop a fire safety strategy which protects the building from extensive damage and, most importantly, that you keep everyone within the building as safe as possible.
The role of a fire door in a property (at whatever scale it may be) is to ensure that, if a fire does occur, everyone that is inside the building at that time is able to evacuate quickly and safely, through a route that has not been blocked by the fire.
In addition, by installing fire doors, you can help to prevent the fire from causing significant damage to your building. This is because the doors help to confine the fire in one area, and mean that it takes more time for the fire to spread further.
As you can see, fire doors are a hugely important safety feature in a building. So, it is hardly surprising that they need to be inspected carefully and regularly, in order to be certain that they would do their job fully in the case of a fire.
But how often should this be? And how can you arrange a fire door inspection for your property? We are commonly asked these questions, and we want to make sure that we put our clients at ease – we understand how stressful it can be to manage the health and safety of a building, especially when you know that other people are based there.
To answer these questions: According to the BWF-CERTFIRE Best Practice Guide, you should check your fire door once every 6 months.
Furthermore, this check must be performed by a certified, qualified fire door specialist.
This is, without a doubt, the best way to ensure that your fire doors continue to protect yourself and your building’s residents as they should.
If you have any further fire safety-related questions, or would like us to perform a fire door safety inspection for you, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.