Fire Rated Doors in Singapore

1. Importance Of A Fire Exit Doors

2. Buildings need to have exits that will ensure that people can evacuate immediately when a fire has broken out. However, there must also be an exit strategy to use during an emergency. In exit strategy is a plan for extricating a structure during a difficult time or a crisis situation like a fire disaster.

3. Since the front fire exit door may not be a good route to escape, then there should be a fire exit door that will help people extricate themselves safely. It is also vital for people using or occupying a building to know which passages are fire exits. To have a least one exit is good enough but two is better.

4. Knowing how people can get confused during a crisis, an exit strategy can always get them to concentrate on what to do in case of fire. An alternative exit can plainly save lives. This strategy can give people the proper way to extricate themselves and teach them not to squander any minute when escaping.

5. It will also remind them that it is useless to retrieve any important thing when the fire is spreading fast. Some people would attempt to save a few belongings even when fire is nearby, leading to more injuries and eventually, and failure to properly free oneself from this disaster.

6. A fire proof door at the exit passageway leads to an outside location. People can be saved when passing through this door in an acceptable period of time since these doors are also dependent on their rating.

7. A rating is the number of minutes that the fire door will be able to withstand extreme heat. the fire exit usually is a part of a protected passageway like stairways, corridors, hallways, tunnels, under floor passageways or even overhead passageways. These areas are unobstructed and must be kept that way.

8. The presence of stacked boxes, merchandise, equipment, or even trash bins are unnecessary and are considered grave obstructions. These objects may make people stumble when using the fire exit door. Any plant, a door stop or a block of wood should not be placed before this door.

9. Also, it should not be impeded when it needs to close. When there's a small obstruction to this door, people will be hurriedly passing through this exit and may cause injuries if there are many people who will hastily try to extract themselves from the building.

10. Always keep fire proof doors closed. If it is required to keep this door open, install an automatic closure as this will connect to the fire alarm system to the fire proof door. Once an alarm has been set off, the door will close by design.

11. In a building, not all doors should be kept closed except those with capacity to withstand fire. Only the doors to laboratories, offices and in the case of school buildings, doors to classrooms should be kept closed as possible.

12. If there is a need to change lock of install a few alterations to the door, always consult with the inspectors first since it may deem the door non-compliant which can complicate your problem later on when door inspections will be carried out.

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