Are Your Fire Doors and Frames Protecting Your Building?

Field Inspections and Labeling:

Are you a building owner, facility manager, or general contractor responsible for ensuring the safety of your building? Understanding the critical role of fire doors and frames in your fire protection system is paramount.

Fire doors and frames are essential components of any building's fire safety system. To ensure their continued effectiveness, regular inspections, evaluations, and maintenance are crucial. Here's a breakdown of the services offered to maintain the integrity of these safety features:

• Field Inspections and Labeling: On-site inspections verify that fire doors and frames meet safety standards and regulations. This includes assessing their physical condition and ensuring that fire labels are accurate and visible.
• Review and Evaluation of Field Modifications: Any changes made to fire doors or frames in the field outside of what is allowed by NFPA 80 can potentially impact their fire protection rating. Expert evaluations help determine if these modifications compromise the product's safety.
• Annual Inspections: Regular inspections, typically conducted annually, ensure that fire and egress door and frame assemblies remain in compliance with relevant codes and standards, such as NFPA 80 and NFPA 101.

Why Are These Services Important?

• Missing or Damaged Fire Labels: Accurate fire labels are essential for identifying a product's fire protection rating. Missing or damaged labels can pose a safety risk.
• Regulatory Compliance: Many jurisdictions require annual inspections of fire ?and egress door and frame assemblies, especially in healthcare facilities that receive federal funding. Non-compliance can result in penalties or loss of funding.

The Significance of Fire Door and Frame Safety

Fire doors and frames act as barriers to prevent the spread of fire and smoke, allowing for safe evacuation and firefighting operations. By ensuring that these products are properly installed, inspected, and maintained, we can significantly enhance fire safety and reduce the risk of property damage and loss of life.

Warnock Hersey (WH) Mark

For 125 years, Intertek’s Warnock Hersey (WH) has been one of the most trusted marks in the building products industry. Throughout that time, manufacturers and AHJs have viewed WH as the preferred mark for fire safety certification.

ETL Mark

ETL was born into a culture of innovation. It was in Thomas Edison's lighting laboratories where it all began, and to this day we still breathe the same air of innovation, safety and quality. We understand a manufacturer's need to get new products to market quickly to achieve the greatest success, therefore we have built speed, responsiveness and urgency into our processes. Our commitment to helping customers gain the certifications they need quickly and efficiently has never been greater.

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Conclusion

Regular inspections, evaluations, and maintenance of fire doors and frames are essential for ensuring building safety. By utilizing the services of qualified professionals, building owners and managers can maintain compliance with regulations, protect lives, and safeguard property.

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