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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: SeaBass on November 10, 2016, 01:04:33 PM

Title: Scare mongering
Post by: SeaBass on November 10, 2016, 01:04:33 PM
The current edition of the Fire Door Inspection Scheme news letter states the following:

?Today, fire risk assessments are a legal requirement under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. Fire doors should be inspected by a certificated professional as part of the assessment to ensure they perform as intended in the event of a fire.?

This is clearly piffle designed to scare RPs in to spending money that they do not need to spend.  The FDIS aren't the only trade association/scheme to make such inaccurate and misleading claims, so isn't it time that trading standards or the Advertising standards Authority took action?   
Title: Re: Scare mongering
Post by: nearlythere on November 10, 2016, 07:41:44 PM
The current edition of the Fire Door Inspection Scheme news letter states the following:

?Today, fire risk assessments are a legal requirement under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. Fire doors should be inspected by a certificated professional as part of the assessment to ensure they perform as intended in the event of a fire.?

This is clearly piffle designed to scare RPs in to spending money that they do not need to spend.  The FDIS aren't the only trade association/scheme to make such inaccurate and misleading claims, so isn't it time that trading standards or the Advertising standards Authority took action?   

A professional certified in what? Fire Door inspecting? It's a bit like fire risk assessors issuing Fire Risk Assessment framed certificates and being told a year later they have expired.
Title: Re: Scare mongering
Post by: Bruce89 on November 10, 2016, 07:51:19 PM
Maybe if someone was to make a formal complaint to a relevant organisation then they might be investigated, over to you or anyone else out there to make the complaint.
Title: Re: Scare mongering
Post by: Davo on November 10, 2016, 09:51:37 PM
Am I going senile or was a certain company offering fire door inspection courses ???
(presumably a nice shiny cert at the end)


davo