health & safety guidelines

Don’t Wedge Your Fire Doors Open. Fire doors are installed in order to protect commercial properties from the spread of fire and smoke in the event of a blaze. Stemming the spread of fire by compartmentalising rooms and corridors from one another increases the chances that the fire will be contained in a single area, making it more manageable to tackle and decreasing the overall damage incurred. There is one potential downside of fire doors though – if they’re not closed they’re not going to do their job. The problem is that fire doors are often very heavy, cumbersome and […]