20 Sep 2018

Fire Door Safety Week 2018, which runs from September 24th to 30th, is designed to promote awareness of the importance of choosing the right fire doors and ensuring they are properly installed and maintained. To help the user implement the advice that are given during the week, Checkmate Fire has compiled a downloadable fire door inspection checklist.

The specialist teams at the company’s Yorkshire, Birmingham, Harlow and new South-West offices are fully supportive of the Fire Door Safety Week initiative. As part of the company’s passive fire protection inspection and remediation services that everyone too regularly sees incorrectly specified, damaged and poorly installed doors in settings such as hospitals, universities, commercial properties and residential tower blocks.

basic fire door inspections

The result of these issues is that the building’s ability to slow the spread of fire and smoke is severely impaired, compromising escape routes and risking the safety of the people who live and work in them. It also means that in the event of a fire, buildings are likely to suffer more extensive damage, pushing up repair bills and increasing the amount of disruption suffered by businesses or public services.

There are some simple steps that can be taken to check the condition of the fire doors at the user’s premises

Fortunately, there are some simple steps that can be taken to check the condition of the fire doors at the user’s premises and assess whether they need to act to improve the safety of their building. To help them with this, the organizers of Fire Door Safety Week have published a five-step guide to basic fire door inspections, which the users can download from their official website.

installation and remediation services

To further assist the users, Checkmate Fire has published a fire door inspection checklist that allows them to record their findings and pass them on to a specialist to address any issues. They can download their checklist from the website. Whether they discover problems with their building’s fire doors or Fire Door Safety Week prompts them to take a closer look at the entire passive fire protection strategy at their premises, Checkmate Fire can help.

Checkmate Fire offers a range of installation and remediation services for fire doors, fire stopping, compartmentation and structural steel protection, with all their installation and repair work third-party certified. They also offer compliance services that help estate managers and business owners to ensure they have the right passive fire protection measures in place to keep their staff and buildings safe, and their insurers happy.