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Michael Floyd
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Another possibility for these doors to behave correctly in a fire, but not impede your MS staff in normal access, is a free swing device. As Jim Taylor stated above you need to be careful in adusting any closer out of its normal range as it may not hold the door shut before fire seals kick in during a fire. Fire doors should have relatively low opening forces if correctly installed, as they should be useable by most people without needing a full shoulder charge.
A free swing device would allow the door to behave like a door without a closer until the fire alarm cuts in the mechanism.
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Michael Floyd
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The Fire protection Association has published Hot Work information for decades including electronic forms. Their guide to construction site fire safety is often part of contractual obligations to insurers.
This fire just shows the lack of management the government puts in place on these major projects. Let's hope we do not follow Greece and end up with fatalities during the olympics work.
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Michael Floyd
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Routine inspections of buildings will rarely be of sufficient detail to discover hidden damage above ceilings, below floors and in service risers where fire stopping and cavity barriers have been breached, particularly by telecomms and other wiring changes. The spread of smoke and subsequent deaths at the Rosspark care home show how important these measures are in any building with sleeping accommodation.
Building owners/managers must manage the whole fire safety package for their specific needs from the risk assessment.
I stay over 120 nights per year in hotels and rarely find all fire safety measures satisfactory.
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Michael Floyd
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My main comment on this section is that the Fire Safety Order did not pass responsibility to building owners etc. This was done many years earlier by the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations to 90% + of workplaces.
Fire exits may open inwards if they serve less than sixty persons and premises are normal risk.
As you rightly say Julian, final exit doors are rarely fire doore unless they are on external staircases. People mix up fire exit with fire rated door.
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Michael Floyd
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There is a protocol for maintaining standard wooden fire doors - BS 8214 1990.
There is also a well known range of defects and alterations which would cause a fire door to perform below expectation. We have been running training courses on this topic and many other technical aspects of fire safety for many years and now train regulatory staff and responsible organisations who have made the effort to know these important measures.
M. Floyd
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Michael Floyd
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Minor correction to answer 1. BRE (formerly the Building Research Establishment)now a registered charity owned by the BRE Trust.
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