Fire Door Inspections help protect your people and
property!
Van's Fire & Safety will perform fire door
inspections to safeguard buildings, people, and property by
following the up-to-date requirements in the 2010
NFPA 80: Fire Doors and Other Opening
Protectives.
Protect against the spread of fire and smoke by providing the
latest rules for the full range of opening protectives. From fire
doors and fire windows to fabric fire safety curtains and fire
dampers, this comprehensive document covers it all!
As the industry leader in the inspection and repair of fire and
smoke dampers, LSS Life Safety Services offers fire and smoke door
inspections as a compliment to our passive fire-protection
inspection services.
Fire-rated doors are an integral part of not just the building's
passive fire-protection system but the building's overall fire
protection. A properly operating fire door, just like a properly
operating fire damper, is a key component in the
compartmentalization of a building to stop the spread of deadly
fire, smoke, and toxic fumes and gases. For the fire door to
operate successfully the entire fire assembly must operate, and the
fire door is just one part of the overall fire assembly. The
assembly is composed of the fire door, frame, fire exit hardware,
door closers, hinges, locks, door bolts, and other door components
that when combined provide varying degrees of fire protection that
is contingent on the door fire rating (e.g. 45 minutes, 90
minutes). In addition to all of the components of a fire door
assembly there are multiple categories of fire doors: horizontal
sliding; fire shutters; swinging; vertically sliding; chutes; and
overhead rolling fire doors.
Combining the critical role fire doors play in fire protection,
the varying types of fire doors, the multiple components that
comprise a fire assembly, with the high frequency that fire doors
are used on a day-to-day basis in building occupancy the likelihood
of a fire or smoke door not being optimal condition to protect
occupants in the event of a fire is quite high. That is why The
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), The International Code
Council (ICC), and The Joint Commission all require the inspection
of Fire Doors. The two primary NFPA Codes that have requirements
for the maintenance and inspection of fire doors are NFPA 101®,
Life Safety Code®, and NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other
Protective Opening Protectives®.
