Fire door compliance in healthcare estates
Progressive horizontal evacuation, physical damage rates, and evidencing compliance in a building that never closes.
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Healthcare estates carry a compliance problem the regulations do not fully describe: the doors are load-bearing to the evacuation strategy itself, and the building cannot be closed to work on them.
Why damage rates are different here
Bed frames, trolleys and equipment move through the same door hundreds of times a day. Physical damage is not vandalism, it is traffic, and it accumulates at a rate no annual inspection cycle was designed for.
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