When designing a building, fire safety needs to be considered. The positioning of your fire doors is important, playing a pivotal role in protecting lives. As well as that, good placement can also protect some of your property from fire and flames. Here’s a few tips to help you plan a fire safe property layout.
Plan Your Escape Routes
During a fire, you need to be able to safely evacuate everyone in the building. Therefore, the escape route itself is critical. Fire doors need to be placed in corridors, stairways and exits. It needs to be a simple route which everyone can take with ease, with clear signage and appropriate safety measures. It’s very important that the doors are accessible and usable at all times, so don’t place them somewhere which is likely to be obstructed.
Integration With Fire Alarms
Proper fire doors need to be connected up to your fire alarm system. When the fire alarm is triggered, the doors should be activated, resulting in them closing and helping to contain the fire. You’ll need to ensure the doors are placed in areas which the wiring can reach, so they can react to the fire when the alarm is raised.
Maintain The Integrity Of Your Building’s Compartments
Many fire containment plans will involve a system called compartmentation. This is a method which involves dividing a building up into segments with their own fire protection. This means that if a fire were to break out, it should be contained to one small space and have a lower risk of spreading. Your fire doors will need to be integrated into this strategy, ensuring that fire can be contained to the section it starts in. The benefit of this is that it reduces the overall risk of damage. Therefore, fixing the damage should be a lot less expensive and it’s more likely that all of the building occupants can escape safely.
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