Fire Door Five: Shutting the door on fire and smoke

Today marks the start of Fire Door Safety Week. This campaign ids designed to raise awareness of the importance of fire safety within the both commercial, public and residential buildings. The Grenfell Tower disaster is one high profile example that shows the world that without proper fire regulated materials, checks and procedures in place within all phases of a building from specifying to construction to ongoing management that major loss of life can occur when a fire breaks out. Something which should be preventable.

Fire door safety campaigners are, through Fire Door Safety Week (FDSW), working to ensure public and private sector landlords and building owners stop risking the lives of tenants and ensure fire doors are correctly inspected, specified, fitted and maintained.

Fire doors are the first line of defence against devastating fires and when properly built, installed and maintained, they save lives and protect property. Despite this, fire doors across the UK are still badly fitted, non-compliant, left propped open or damaged and, as a result, could be putting millions of lives at stake.

The team behind FDSW (24-30th September 2018) continue to educate about the critical role that fire doors play in delaying the spread of smoke and fire, and keeping occupants and fire fighters safe.

Now in its sixth year, this year’s FDSW campaign – Fire Door Five: Shutting the door on fire and smoke – aims to draw attention to the importance of properly-fitted and accredited fire doors as well as raising awareness of the dangers of smoke inhalation and the role that correctly installed fire doors can do in preventing the spread of both fire and smoke.

Power-of-Five-FDSW-Factsheet_Infographic We fully support the fire door safety week and want to help them reach as many people as possible. We are a manufacture of fire doors and other fire rated products which all sit under our SHIELD brand. We ensure all our products meet our third party Exova BM TRADA Q-Mark product certification. The thorough and strict testing, certification and auditing process set by Exova that gives us the confidence and our customers the reassurance that everything we manufacture is up to industry standards and will perform as needed in the event of a fire. We have recently just passed this year’s audit but we will continue to try and improve our internal processes wherever we can.