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F ire Compliance in High Risk Buildings

Discover expert fire compliance consulting services for high-risk buildings, including audits, surveys, inspections, and education. Achieve top-notch fire safety with Golden Thread Fire Delay and enhance your passive fire protection. Stay updated on healthcare fire safety standards and best practices.

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F ire Compliance in High Risk Buildings

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  1. Fire Compliance in High Risk Buildings

  2. Introduction to Fire Delay • The Millennium Dome (1998 – 99) • 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) (2002-04) • Wembley Stadium (2003 – 07) • TelehouseBlackwall2017 • Waterloo Station 2017 -18 • Victoria and Albert Museum 2018 www.firedelay.co.uk

  3. Introduction toGolden Thread Fire Golden Thread Fire work in Partnership with Fire Delay as a ‘Golden Thread Fire Delay joint venture' to provide a complete menu of Passive Fire Protection Services 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 andfloor slab condition surveys • Fire door inspections, reportsand schedules • Fire damper inspections reportsand schedules • Passive fire protectionremediation and installationmanagement and • Practical fire compartment • Awareness training

  4. 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.

  5. 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. ”

  6. “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”

  7. Fire Compliance SPECIFIED PROCURED INSTALLED MANAGED MAINTAINED

  8. Competent Inspections It is generally agreed that for anew or upgraded door set, thelevel of inspection should be to a very high standard, ensuring thatthe door has been installed or remediated in keeping with howit was fire tested in order toreplicate performance or meetthe standard of remediationintended and required. For other fire doors the level of inspection that is suitable and sufficient to meet legal requirements needs to be determined.

  9. 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’ Introducing a system fit for purpose that will adequately manage the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of doors that are currently in place

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

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

  12. Incorrect Frame Installation Does the frame need re-constructing because it wasn’t correctly installed to align with the door leaf?

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

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

  15. 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?

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

  17. The Risk / Usage Matrix • It may be useful for designers,fire engineers, building owners, • occupiers and risk assessors toclassify fire doorsets in buildingsinto 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

  18. Evidence of Competence

  19. 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

  20. Chesterfield Hospital Fire 2011

  21. Chesterfield Hospital Fire 2011

  22. Inappropriate Use of Fire Foam

  23. Acknowledgment and thanks to the other members of theFire Door Inspection Working Group: Mark Chineryfrom Barking, Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust MazinDaoudof Sodexo Jamie Keayof Croydon Health Service NHS Trust Mike Ralph of NHS Improvement Nick Strongeof Croydon Health Services and Nigel Williams from Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust

  24. Thank You Any Questions? alan@goldenthreadfire.com

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