Improving Fire Safety with Industrial Doors

Putting adequate measures in place to protect your staff, goods, building and business from fire is an incredibly important measure to take, not only to comply with the Fire Safety laws but also to prevent the risk of huge losses in money due to significant damage and keep operations rolling. That’s why we’ve put together this helpful guide explaining how you can use industrial doors to improve fire safety.

According to GOV.UK, as the responsible person for fire safety, your responsibilities are to:

• Carry out a fire risk assessment of the premises and review it regularly
• Tell staff or their representatives about the risks you’ve identified
• Put in place, and maintain, appropriate fire safety measures
• Plan for an emergency
• Provide staff information, fire safety instruction and training

As part of putting in place and maintaining appropriate fire safety measures, high-risk rooms should not generally open directly into a fire-protected stairway and if only one escape route is available, you may need to make it fire resisting (protected) or install an automatic fire-detection system.

This means if your premises has either high-risk rooms or just one escape route and you don’t put adequate measures in place to prevent the spread of fire in these areas, you could be breaking the law and putting your staff and business at risk.

That’s why you need suitable doors in place in your industrial building, which is one way of helping to prevent the spread of fire and make rooms fire resistant.

Fire Roller Shutter Doors 

BID Group’s Fire Roller Shutters are designed to provide up to a four-hour delay on the spread of fire in the unlikely event of such a situation as well as providing protection and security.

With their aesthetically pleasing looks and pristine appearance, the Fire Roller Shutter Doors are the most cost-effective and practical purchase for any business. Designed for application’s in both commercial and industrial situations, all of our Fire Roller Shutter Doors are tested to BS 476-22 (Fire Safety testing on building materials and structures), allowing for that peace of mind on installation. 

Our Fire Roller Doors are tailor-made to each client’s requirements, so you can be sure you have the right kind of fire protection in place wherever you need on your premises. 

In normal conditions the shutter can be opened and closed by using the push buttons (mains power available), however, in fire conditions the shutter will close automatically under controlled descent on receipt of a signal from the in house fire/smoke detection system, or via the fusible link fitted to the motor. 

To slow down the heating process, the angles, endplates, guides, canopy, curtain and bottom rail are galvanised and we offer the optional add-on of a fire interface control panel with shutter closing sign, delay on alarm signal and local heat or smoke activation.

Key Benefits

• Up to 4 hour fire rated
• 2 Available for openings up to 7m
• Manual or electric operation
• Various finishes available
• Fire alarm activated
• Easy to install and maintain

Improve Your Business’ Fire Safety with BID Group

Are you looking to improve the fire safety of your premises? Get in touch with our team today to discuss how we can help further or arrange a free site survey and quotation.