Fire Compliance in High Risk Buildings Introduction to

Fire Compliance in High Risk Buildings

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Introduction to Golden Thread Fire provide a complete menu of fire compliance consultancy services including: • Regulation 7 audits • Regulation 38 audits • FSO Article 17 audits • Fire wall, building void and floor slab condition surveys • Fire door inspections, reports and schedules • Fire damper inspections reports and schedules • Passive fire protection remediation and installation management and Golden Thread Fire work in Partnership with Fire Delay • Practical fire compartment as a ‘Golden Thread Fire Delay joint venture' to provide • Awareness training a complete menu of Passive Fire Protection Services

The National Association of Healthcare Fire Officers (NAHFO) is an organisation that acts as a national voice for all those associated with healthcare fire safety; working closely with other organisations to promote the highest standards of fire safety within healthcare environments.

Firecode Remit “Healthcare providers have a duty of care to ensure that appropriate governance arrangements are in place and are managed effectively. The Health Technical Memorandum series provides best practice engineering standards and policy to enable management of this duty of care. ”

“The Principle of Progressive Horizontal Evacuation of patients is considered essential in health buildings. ” “In the case of a fire in one area, the Patients are evacuated to an adjoining area on the same level designed to protect its occupants from the danger of fire and Smoke”

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Competent Inspections It is generally agreed that for a new or upgraded door set, the level of inspection should be to a very high standard, ensuring that the door has been installed or remediated in keeping with how it was fire tested in order to replicate performance or meet the standard of remediation intended and required. For other fire doors the level of inspection that is suitable and sufficient to meet legal requirements needs to be determined.

1. Having a system for ensuring that new fire doors in new or existing buildings are handed over to Trusts in a fire compliant state with all relevant electronic ‘paperwork’ 2. Introducing a system fit for purpose that will adequately manage the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of doors that are currently in place

Invasive Inspection Small deviances in installation can make a big difference in compliance

BS 9999 Is the frame to door leaf gap consistently 3 mm (+/- 1 mm)?

Incorrect Frame Installation Does the frame need reconstructing because it wasn’t correctly installed to align with the door leaf?

Excessive Gaps Are threshold gaps on the doors INTENDED to protect refuge areas less than 3 mm?

Compliant Seal Arrangement Are the seals fitted in the correct sequence so that the cold smoke seal is unbroken by the hinge?

Hinges Are the hinges failing because they are not compatible for the door and have no fire test evidence? Does the CE marking, as in this case, refer to Chinese Export and not European Conformity?

Hidden Gaps Have gaps around the door frames, hidden by architrave, been adequately sealed? Image courtesy of Southern Fire Doors

The Risk / Usage Matrix It may be useful for designers, fire engineers, building owners, occupiers and risk assessors to classify fire doorsets in buildings into four categories; those that: • Protect High Risk and are High Usage • Protect High Risk and are Low Usage • Protect Low Risk and are High Usage • Protect Low Risk and are Low Usage

Evidence of Competence

Chesterfield Hospital Fire 2011 Blaze closes Chesterfield Royal Hospital A&E ward ‘for foreseeable future’ Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service battled for three hours to contain the blaze which spread to the first floor and broke through the roof. June 2011

Chesterfield Hospital Fire 2011

Chesterfield Hospital Fire 2011

Inappropriate Use of Fire Foam

Acknowledgment and thanks to the other members of the Fire Door Inspection Working Group: Mark Chinery from Barking, Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust Mazin Daoud of Sodexo Jamie Keay of Croydon Health Service NHS Trust Mike Ralph of NHS Improvement Nick Stronge of Croydon Health Services and Nigel Williams from Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust

Thank You Any Questions? alan@goldenthreadfire. com