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11%
casualties requiring
hospital treatment
Number of fire safety audits completed by Fire and Rescue
Authorities has declined
54,247
14%
fire audits carried out
Only
4%
of premises
known to the
authorities
were audited
36%
fewer audits
than 2015/16
fewer audits
than 2010/11
32%
Which equates to
17,151
were
unsatisfactory
Most common reason
for non-compliance
unsatisfactory
fire safety audits
Accounting for
7,250
Article 14
instances of non-compliance
(Emergency route and exits)
What standards should fire doors comply with?
BS EN 179
UNION
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for ‘Security
Hardware
Manufacturer
of the Year’
award
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BS EN 1125 BS EN 1634-1
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All statistics taken from:
• Fire and rescue incident statistics: England, year ending December 2017 (published 10 May 2018)
• Fire prevention and protection statistics: England, April 2016 to March 2017 (published 26 October 2017)
» » HELD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IFSEC
and FIREX International, the Security and
Fire Excellence awards honour the best
products, manufacturers and projects in
the fire and security sector. The Willenhall-
based lock and security solutions provider
received the nomination due to the
strength and popularity of its extensive
product range.
Crucial to this nomination was UNION
DoorSense, the battery-operated standalone
system that allows fire doors to be kept open
for access and automatically close during
alarms. CE marked to EN 1155 standards,
DoorSense meets the legal requirement for
fire doors to be kept open and react fast in the
event of a fire, while also assisting building
access and providing greater movement
when required.
Peter Crane, Marketing Manager for
UNION, said: “Our portfolio of innovative,
trusted solutions are highly reliable
and represent the very best of British
design and product development. We are
thrilled that products such as DoorSense
have been recognised in this way, and it
continues to show why locksmiths turn to
UNION for high-quality locking solutions.
The Security and Fire Excellence awards
are a key industry event, and we are very
proud to be a finalist in this category.”
www.uniononline.co.uk
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