The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (more commonly known as the RRO, or the Fire Safety Order 2005) makes it a legal requirement that all equipment and devices (including fire resisting doors and escape doors) are correctly installed and adequately maintained for them to be fit for purpose and to safeguard the safety of persons in your premises. The authorities have the power to enforce the Fire Safety Order and may serve a prosecution against those responsible when breaches are discovered. This is covered under Article 17 of the order.

To satisfy this, you must ensure your fire doors are in good working order, and appointing a competent person to inspect and certify them will satisfy this. By using a FDIS (Fire Door Inspection Scheme) registered contractor, you can be sure they are competent and experienced to carry this work out with the required due diligence.

Above it being a legal requirement - it may also one day save your life. Fire doors are a key aspect of passive fire protection, and help keep the escape routes of a building separate from fire to allow you enough time to escape to safety!

Here at DANFIRE we set ourselves apart from our competitors in many ways - we do things differently, for good reason.

We commit ourselves to ensure our fire door inspectors work to the highest standards, and have access to all the latest technical guidance documents, standards and legislation - we prepare and commit ourselves to ongoing learning and improvement  to ensure we can provide you with accurate, informative and honest fire door inspection reports.

We take the jargon out of fire safety - most other assessors leave you with a complicated, hard to understand report which can often lead to further fire safety confusion! Here at DANFIRE we offer a full aftercare service with our fire door inspections, which helps you make light work of understanding the fire door report and its findings.

We are responsive and reactive - you won't have to chase us for the report, and we will be pro-active in completing the report as quickly as possible, we are flexible and work evenings and weekends to get you that all important report, fast.

Our fire door inspectors check a range of things on the doors, including but not limited to : -

• Has the correct fire rating for its location
   

• Is fitted properly, without the type of gaps that can damage the building’s compartmentation
   

• Is not damaged in a way that would impair its performance in the event of a fire
   

• Has the right hardware and closers, and that they function correctly
   

• Has the right intumescent strips and cold smoke seals where required
   

• Is properly identified on both the door signage and in the building’s asset register
   

• Where appropriate, has the right type of glazing and that it is fitted correctly
   

• Where possible, cross examination of the certification with the actual installation to ensure compliance