Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person must take general fire precautions and keep fire safety measures maintained and in working order, and fire doors are often central to those measures. They are also compromised easily: a door left open, a failed closer, unreported damage, an alteration that affects performance, or an identified defect where the remedial work isn’t followed through. What matters to an inspector is not simply how a door looked on the day, but when it was last inspected, what defects were known, who was responsible, whether the work was completed, and what records exist to show it. What is more, enforcement does not depend on a fire having occurred. Paperwork itself doesn’t prove compliance: what is documented must match what is happening in the building.
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