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How to prevent the spread of fire
After the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, fire safety is an issue on everyone’s minds. Questions are being asked about inadequate safety measures. How do we stop this from happening again?
How to check your fire doors
It’s important to address the use and maintenance of fire doors. Fire doors can become damaged with regular use. Our checklist tells you what to look out for to make sure your doors are safe and compliant.
Everything you need to know about hotel fire safety
Read our handy guide to hotel fire safety. It covers fire risk assessments, evacuation, training, quick and easy tips and penalties for businesses that have got it wrong.
Fresh air is good for your brain
Good ventilation and fresh air in a building improves productivity and helps people think more clearly. It also improves the health and wellbeing of employees.
How to prepare an emergency evacuation plan
All businesses need an emergency plan to clearly explain the procedure to follow if a fire breaks out. Our seven-step guide explains what is required.
Four-step guide to help prevent fire
Fire safety education isn’t just about what to do when the fire alarm sounds. It’s also about the prevention of fire, and methods to minimise harm and damage if a fire does break out.
Why do we need fire doors?
Fire doors save lives. They’re designed to stop the spread of fire and smoke for a specified amount of time.
A quick guide to fire risk assessments
Fire risk assessments are required in all businesses. This easy guide explains the role of the Responsible Person and how to complete a fire risk assessment.
Fire safety in care homes
There are many challenges to managing fire safety in a care home. Our Fireco guide offers advice to simplify safety and easily stay compliant with fire regulations.
Fire safety tips for schools
The cost of a school fire can be huge. Lives are at risk. Fire damage is not only expensive to repair, it causes disruption and can even affect exam results, and staff and pupil morale.
The SIMPLE guide to workplace fire safety
Every workplace is different with its own unique fire safety needs. It’s important that all premises have an ongoing fire risk assessment document to identify any dangers and keep people safe. Read our SIMPLE tips here.
The reasons people ignore fire alarms
What do people do when the fire alarm sounds? Some of these comments of why people ignore fire alarms are shocking.
How to improve fire door access
Closed fire doors save lives but they can get in the way. What solutions are there to improve access for everyone?
The importance of effective lockdown
Lockdown is a security measure used in buildings to keep people safe from an immediate threat. Dorgard Pro can form part of an effective lockdown procedure.
It’s time to bring wireless fire safety into the modern world
Motorola invented the mobile phone in 1973. Since then, we have said goodbye to searching for change to use a telephone box, and dragging spirals of cords from beneath the living room door to get some privacy. Living in a digital age, things move fast.
Dorgard Pro: Homework Done
Twenty-four years ago we invented Dorgard, the very first hold-open fire door device to close automatically on the sound of the alarm. We continue to innovate, listening to our customers and learning what they need and what works.
Do you know what to do when there’s a fire?
The alarm sounds. A fire has broken out and your residents are asleep. Do you know what to do? Our handy guide will explain all.
Workplace health and safety fails
Health and safety in the workplace is essential. Decrease the risks with the correct preventative measures — and common sense! Here’s what happens when it goes wrong.
The killing fumes — why smoke is more deadly than fire
Fire and smoke are a deadly duo. However, smoke has more tricks up its sleeve. Most fire deaths are not caused by burns from flames, but by inhaling smoke. Smoke leads to disorientation and clouds your vision.
The smarter way to hold fire doors open
Dorgard SmartSound™ is the latest addition to the Fireco product range. Keep your fire doors open legally, safe in the knowledge that Dorgard SmartSound will automatically enable them to close if a fire alarm sounds.
Silent evacuation of a care home
Evacuating a care home has its own unique challenges. Elderly residents could be bedbound, suffering from dementia, hard of hearing, or unable to move without assistance. Added to this is the distress that a loud fire alarm can cause to vulnerable residents.
Fire Door Safety Week
Fire Door Safety Week is a time when the fire industry works to raise awareness of the critical role fire doors play in keeping people safe.
Dorgard. The original and the best
In 1994 our chairman Neil Purssey invented the first wireless hold-open device for fire doors. Dorgard reacted to the sound of a fire alarm to automatically close the door. It did that then and it does that now.
21st Century Town Criers
Mobile phones are the town criers of the 21st Century, everyone finds out news from their device. DMS is a text message emergency alert system for your phone.