About Fire Door Safety Week
24th September 2017
A door’s 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. Consequently, we have created Fire Door Safety Week:
- 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
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). We will be active on social media this week to support the #FireDoorSafetyWeek initiative.
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