Ensuring Safe Fire Doors  

The effectiveness of a fire door doesn’t just depend on the door leaf (the primary panel of the door that swings open and closed) but also on the various components such as hinges, handles, kick plates, knockers, bolts, etc., that are part of the whole assembly.

It is important that the hardware selected for a fire door is suitable and correctly installed. In order to promote compliance, the Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) and the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) recently published a new “Ironmongery Manufacturers’ Guidance Document”.

 This guide has been designed to help manufacturers, distributors and others to provide the information with their products that is necessary to support safe and effective product selection, installation and ongoing maintenance.

If you are a manufacturer of products for use with fire doors, then this guide identifies key factors such as labelling, test evidence and certificates, and maintenance information that should be provided with your products.

If you are installing or maintaining fire doors, then the guide will help you to ensure that you are getting the information that you need.

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