Fire Door Inspection Awareness Course
Fire doors form a core part of a building’s safety system. These doors divide a building into compartments, thus mitigating the spread of fire and ensuring safe evacuation. Being accountable for regular inspections, the individual’s responsibility extends to identifying, documenting, and reporting defects and ensuring compliance with regulations and safety standards.
This course is designed to deliver detailed knowledge of non-specialist and in-house inspections that empower professionals to carry out fire door inspections and their integration in the workplace. This course provides participants with the skills and understanding of the need for inspections, various types of fire doors and ways to deploy a simple 6-step approach for ensuring fire door functionality and compliance.
The participants of this training learn about the legal responsibilities as per the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and Fire Safety Act 2021, ways to inspect core parts, recognize and report potential hazards, and the measures to be taken to adhere to fire door inspection.
Who can enroll Fire Door Inspection Course?
This course is ideal for all with the responsibility to perform fire door inspection in non-domestic environments, including:
- Responsible Persons (RPs).
- Building managers.
- Caretakers.
- Site managers.
- Facilities managers.
Learning outcomes of Fire Door Inspection Training:
Upon course completion, the participants are empowered to:
- Identify various kinds of fire doors and interpret their core elements.
- Determine potential defects and compliance concerns related to fire doors.
- Professionally document and report the findings of the fire door inspection.
- Derive measurable actions after completing a fire door inspection.
Course Content of Fire Door Inspection Awareness:
Module 1:
Identification and significance
This module deals with compartmentation, and it highlights how fire doors contribute to passive fire protection (PFP). This phase covers the standards for regular inspections and knowledge of typical fire door types in the workplace, which includes variations in rating, certification and configuration.
Module 2:
Inspection and Reporting
This module includes a detailed and hands-on knowledge of a 6-step guide that applies to fire door inspections. This integrates core elements, fire-door related potential defects, compliance concerns and a professional approach to clearly documenting and reporting fire door inspection findings. This also covers further procedures in case the identified problems are not given sufficient attention.
Assessment for Fire Door Inspection Awareness Course
The successful participants of fire door inspection awareness training will have to undertake an online assessment. This assessment comprises 10 multiple-choice questions, and participants have to achieve 80% to get a pass. The immediate marking of answers allows participants to know their pass status once they complete the assessment.
Participants who don’t pass assessments can review the course material and repeat the assessment as many times as they like, without paying additional costs.
Objective of the training
Fire doors play a fundamental role in maintaining fire compartmentation and protecting safe escape routes. Fire doors that are damaged and non-compliant will fail to meet their intended essential function and can impact the overall fire safety of buildings and expose people to fire risks.
This Fire Door Inspection Awareness course gives delegates a comprehensive knowledge of performing regular inspections required to maintain fire doors and stay compliant with workplace compliance, and protect people. This course integrates the part of fire doors in compartmentation, a 6-step approach to in-house checks, recognizing possible component defects and a professional way of reporting that fulfils the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order.