Borehamwood is known for its film and television studios. Have we inspected doors at one? No, and we will not pretend otherwise.
What we can say is that a studio, an industrial unit and an ordinary office share one thing in law. Somebody is responsible for the fire doors, and that person has to be able to show they were checked.
Workplaces
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 the employer or occupier has to keep fire precautions in working order. In a place with plenty of doors that means a written record with dates.
Our workplace inspection page covers the doors people forget. In a unit it is often the one between the warehouse and the office, and the one to the plant room.
Those doors take a beating. Pallet trucks hit the bottom of them, and a door that has closed on a trolley ends up with a chewed edge and a broken seal.
What if the door is steel?
Not every fire door in a workplace is timber. Some are steel, some are glazed, and some are rolling shutters on a fusible link.
We inspect what we can see and photograph it. For a steel door with no label and no paperwork we write that the rating is unknown and list what we could not check. A door we cannot identify does not get passed. The next step is to ask the supplier or the original building contractor.
Who enforces
Hertsmere Borough Council covers housing. Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service enforces fire safety in workplaces and blocks.
Travelling
We drive from Luton, about 40 minutes when the M1 is clear. Borehamwood often goes on the same day as Radlett and Bushey.
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