Australian Fire Door Standards

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Australian fire door standards.

One hour or two hour fire rated door certified according to the australian standards as1905 and having the correct fire rating level. Inspection programs every 6 or 12 months from date of certification by a licensed qbsa company or individual. As outlined in as1905 1 any hardware fitted to your fire door must be fire rated. Door lock heights on exit doors fire doors path of travel doors and disabled access doors now have a standardised lock height of 900mm 1100mm.

Fire doors can be provided in a range of sizes to suit most applications and can be retrofitted to replace existing door sets. Fire rated doorsets must be self closing and self latching to be certified and when installed correctly with approved hardware a tag and certificate is issued. The exception being locks in childcare facilities which may be 1500mm 1650mm high as necessary. A fire rated doorset consists of a door leaf door frame with hardware such as closers handles locks vision panels air grilles and is defined under australian standard as1905 1.

Why is the right fire door installation so important. Fire doors require specialised hardware. Australian standard as1851 2005 sets out the minimum requirements for the regular maintenance of fire doors. Incubator the standards australia incubator is a sandpit for playing with new ideas and testing concepts.

Australian standard as1851 2005 sets out the minimum requirements for the regular maintenance of fire doors. These are the doors in escape walkways that lead to or are between an exit or fire doors. Firesafe is able to install repair and service all types of fire doors and provide certification for these fire doors according to the australian standards. Inspection programs every 6 or 12 months from date of certification by a licensed qbsa company or individual.

The process of installing fire doors must be in compliance with the current national standards and requirements set out by the building code of australia and the relevant australian standards as 1905 1 and as1530 4. It s a place for you to share your vision of how we could develop standards better and how they could add greater value to australian society by being delivered in more user focused ways.