HelenC

Hi, The Hospital where I work is looking to employ an FDIS Certified Fire Door Inspector to survey and report on the existing fire doors in our 3-storey residential flat blocks on site, which are occupied by a mixture of student nurses, doctors and their families. Many of the flats house multiple occupants in bedsit rooms with a shared kitchen and bathroom. Having met with said Fire Door Inspector he has informed us that although several of us are trained Fire Risk Assessors (with experience of assessing flat blocks and HMO's) that we aren't certified and are thus unable to check fire doors sufficiently to say whether they are compliant with Building Regulations and the RRFSO. As a hospital is third party certification of the fire doors in the residential blocks necessary? Would it be of any more value/importance in a court of law than inspections and Fire Risk Assessments undertaken by the in-house Fire Risk Assessors? Any advice on the above would be appreciated, as personally I'm of the opinion (whether right or wrong) that employing an FDIS Inspector wouldn't give the hospital any more legal protection than we as Fire Risk Assessors are able to, and thus doesn't represent value for money.