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Swinging Fire Doors: Assumptions, Myths, and Facts

Start
08/27/2019
10:00 AM
End
12/31/2024
11:59 PM
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Recorded on August 27, 2019.

Got swinging fire doors? Got questions? Good news, you are not alone! Since July of 2016, swinging fire doors in healthcare facilities have been subject to the door safety inspection and testing requirements of NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Opening Protectives. Many door safety inspection reports include erroneous listings of deficiencies. Some facilities are instructed (and required) to relabel their door frames and doors unnecessarily.

This webinar will help everyone involved in the fire door inspection process. AHJs, architects, code consultants, contractors/installers, facility management personnel, inspectors, and door and hardware suppliers.

There is something for everyone! Misunderstandings of NFPA 80's requirements lead to misapplying and over-applying its requirements. Knowing how to fact-check door safety inspection reports to sort out conditions requiring corrective action from incorrectly listed non-compliant conditions is necessary.

Dispelling assumptions, myths, and misconceptions of swinging fire doors clarify which requirements apply to each fire door assembly, and when.

This webinar discusses many of the assumptions and myths regarding swinging fire doors and might help you better manage NFPA 80's door safety inspection and testing process.

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Swinging Fire Doors: Field Labeling—What It Is and When (and Why) It Should Be Used

Start
09/24/2019
10:00 AM
End
12/31/2024
11:59 PM
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Recorded September 24, 2019.

Codes require labels fire-rated door frames, doors, and (most, not all) hardware components to be maintained in legible condition throughout the service lives of swinging doors. Painted and missing labels on swinging fire doors are cited as deficiencies on door safety inspection reports frequently. The process for replacing painted labels and missing labels is called field labeling.

Field labeling—sometimes referred to as re-labeling—entails hiring a service provider to come on-site to verify the condition of the affected door assembly component(s) and confirm their installation meets the appropriate industry standards. If so, field labeling providers are able to apply new labels—not original labels—to door assembly components.

Before the 2016 edition of NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, NFPA 80 was silent on the longstanding industry practice of field labeling. Traditionally, field labeling services were provided by the nationally recognized testing laboratories (NRTLs). Today, field labeling services are being provided by non-testing labs, which raises the need for vetting prospective companies before hiring them to do this work. Performing your due diligence before you hire a labeling service provider is essential. You need to verify that the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)—the appropriate AHJ, that is—will approve and accept the field inspection labels from your service provider.

Knowing when, and why, field labeling existing fire-rated doors might be needed, and how it should be applied is critical. Can field labeling be used to upgrade or downgrade (e.g., increase or decrease) hourly fire ratings of doors? Can non-fire rated existing doors—doors that were never labeled—be converted into labeled fire doors by field labeling? How are older existing door assemblies be evaluated? This presentation will answer these (and other) questions.

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Swinging Fire Doors: Glass and Glazing in Door Assemblies

Start
10/29/2019
10:00 AM
End
12/31/2024
11:59 PM
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Recorded on October 29, 2019.

Do you know which types of glass and glazing materials are permitted in swinging fire door assemblies, especially in older existing doors? It can be confusing at times. Is wire glass permitted in today’s swinging fire doors? Is wire glass permitted to be used in non-fire rated doors? When are markings required on glass and glazing materials? Which glass and glazing materials meet the requirements for impact-resistance? Is wire glass permitted to be used in older existing doors? This webinar answers these questions (and more).

Knowing the code and standard requirements for glass and glazing materials used in swinging fire door assemblies is important. NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives contains provisions for fire protection-rated and fire resistance-rated glass and glazing materials.

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Swinging Fire Doors: S-Labeled Doors, What They Are, and Where They Are Used

Start
11/26/2019
10:00 AM
End
12/31/2024
11:59 PM
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Recorded on November 26, 2019.

What are S-labeled doors? Why are they used? Where are they used? Are all swinging fire doors required to be S-labeled? Chances are that you have asked some of these same questions at one point or another. You might have gotten different answers to these questions depending upon who you asked. Some fire door inspectors know what S-labeled are, per se, but they don't always know where the codes require S-labeled doors to be used.

The building, fire, and life safety codes have varied, but similar, requirements for S-labeled doors. Knowing where the "codes" require S-labeled doors is the first step in understanding how to inspect, test, and maintain them.

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Swinging Fire Doors: A History of NFPA 80's Requirements

Start
12/17/2019
10:00 AM
End
12/31/2024
11:59 PM
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Recorded on December 17, 2019.

NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, requires formal door safety inspection and operational testing of the types of fire doors and window assemblies that it covers. The most important principle of performing NFPA 80's inspections and testing is that the doors and windows should be inspected in accordance with the codes and standards that were in effect at the time of installation. That makes sense, right? In most cases, it's easier said, than done.

Have you ever wondered when sections of wire glass in swinging doors were required to be individually labeled? How about the requirements regarding the installation of fire exit hardware on swinging fire doors? Do labels on fire-rated hollow metal (aka, steel) door frames need include the hourly ratings? When (and why) did NFPA 80 set limitations for signage applied to doors? What about the requirements for older existing swinging fire doors?

This webinar presents a history of NFPA 80's ever-evolving requirements for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives. Fire door inspectors, AHJs. and facility personnel need to be aware of NFPA 80's history to accurately and appropriately assess existing swinging fire doors.

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Swinging Fire Doors: How to Perform NFPA 80's Inspections and Testing

Start
01/28/2020
10:00 AM
End
12/31/2024
11:59 PM
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Recorded on January 28, 2020.

Another webinar on NFPA 80's door safety inspections and testing for fire doors! How could there be anything else to talk about, right? That's a fair question to ask. Many articles, blogs, posts, and webinars have been made regarding NFPA 80's door safety inspections for fire door assemblies. Very few, if any, of these articles, blogs, posts, and webinars focus on how to assess the conditions of fire doors. They covered the technical criteria and requirements for inspecting and testing swinging fire doors, but they are silent on how to perform the inspections and testing. NFPA 80 itself is silent regarding "the how" of the inspections and testing processes.

Door safety inspections of fire doors need to be performed in a manner that produces consistent results, from one door assembly to the next, and between the persons performing the inspections; especially, in the same building/facility. AHJs need to have confidence that the inspections and testing records accurately reflect the conditions of the fire doors—at least, at the time the inspections and testing took place.

This webinar focuses on the "how" of performing NFPA 80's door safety inspections and testings. For example, door safety inspectors need to follow the same process every time they assess the condition of swinging fire door assemblies. Many fire doors have mechanical functions only. Some fire doors have electrified and mechanical functions, ranging from automatic-closing operation to sophisticated access-control functions and powered operated functions.

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Fire Doors Have One Job!

Start
02/11/2022
12:00 PM
End
12/31/2025
12:00 AM
Location
On-Demand @ Learning.DoorSafety.com

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Fire Doors Have One Job!
Presented by Keith E. Pardoe, DSC, DSI, FDAI, DAHC, CDC.
(Recorded February 9, 2022.)

This webinar is approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes long, and includes the extended live Q&A session that immediately followed the presentation.

Swinging fire doors have one job: preventing a fire from spreading.

Properly inspecting and maintaining swinging fire doors ensures they are ready to perform their one job. Understanding NFPA 80’s current requirements for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing swinging fire doors is only the beginning.

Older existing fire doors were installed before many of today’s code requirements came into effect. Learning how older existing fire doors need to be inspected and maintained is essential to correctly performing NFPA 80’s door safety inspection.

This two-hour webinar introduces you to the 2022 edition of NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives. Specifically, this session covers changes in NFPA 80 that provide guidance for inspecting and maintaining older existing fire doors.

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DSI Continuing Education

Start
05/11/2022
12:00 AM
End
06/30/2024
12:00 AM
Location
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Individuals certified as Door Safety Inspectors (DSIs) are required to complete continuing education before they renew their certification for the next twelve (12) month term.

This year's continuing education course consists of the following lessons:

Lesson One: How to Perform NFPA 80's Inspection and Testing
Lesson Two: Glass and Glazing in Fire Doors
Lesson Three: A History of NFPA 80
Lesson Four: Class Exercise—Using NFPA 80.

Upon completion of lessons, DSIs are eligible to complete the online-proctored Continuing Education test. The two-hour timed test consists of a series of single-answer multiple-choice questions.

DSIs have the option of completing this course online through Learning.DoorSafety.com or through in-person classes.

NOTE: Availability of in-person classes is subject to the training facilities schedule; contact them directly for up-to-date regarding their current schedule.

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Watch Fire Door Tests

Start
05/31/2022
End
04/24/2029
Location
Online

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Very few people get the chance to witness fire door testing in person. Conceptually, we understand that doors are subjected to extreme fire conditions under laboratory conditions prescribed by one of the national fire door test standards (e.g., NFPA 252, UL 10B, and UL 10C). Even so, it is difficult for us to imagine the affects fire has on swinging doors.

The video shown in this course is published by the Steel Door Institute (SDI) and is very informative regarding how fire door tests are conducted, and how steel doors perform under these intense conditions.

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Online DSI Training & Certification Class Spring '24

Start
03/19/2024
4:00 PM
End
04/25/2024
8:00 PM
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Instructed by:
Keith E. Pardoe, DSC, FDAI, DAHC, CDC
Founder/President, Safe Doors Save Lives Foundation, Inc.

Fire doors are specially engineered fire protective systems that have one job—preventing a fire from spreading; they must be kept in a constant state of readiness. Individuals performing NFPA 80’s door safety inspections need to have a working knowledge of the fire doors they inspect, as well as the code requirements affecting them. Door Safety Inspectors (DSI) exceed NFPA’s Qualified Person standard (for NFPA 80 and NFPA 105) and NFPA 101’s Knowledgeable Person standard for inspecting and testing egress and fire door assemblies.

In addition to covering the myriad code provisions and requirements for swinging egress and fire doors, this course teaches you The How of performing door safety inspections, especially when you are inspecting older existing doors (e.g., doors more than 25 years old).

This online live instructor-led course consists of approximately forty (40) hours of instruction over six weeks, meeting twice a week for three (3) to (4) hours per session. Allow another twelve (12) to sixteen (16) hours to complete the reading and homework assignments. Recordings of each session are published on the course site on Door Safety’s LMS for you to access anytime.

To complete the class, students must pass the four-hour DSI Certification exam with a minimum score of eighty (80) percent. Students can take the online live proctored exam from their home or office computers at their convenience.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Look up and explain door-related requirements in NFPA 80, NFPA 101, and NFPA 105.
Describe how codes and standards apply to existing and older existing construction (e.g., egress and fire doors).
Correctly apply inspection and testing requirements to new, existing, and older existing doors.
Discuss the evolution of swinging fire doors over the past 75 years.
Explain Door Usage Types and Categories and Door Maintenance Priority Levels.
Recommend code-compliant repairs for fire-rated doors.
Assist facilities in their ongoing door maintenance programs.
Explain when field labeling of door frames, doors, and hardware components might be appropriate—and when it’s not.
Perform Acceptance Testing inspections.
Perform door safety inspections of swinging egress and fire-rated door assemblies.

Students receive the following materials:

Door Safety’s A Constant State of Readiness: Inspecting and Maintaining Swinging Doors Handbook (First edition)
NPFA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives (2016 edition)
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, (2015) edition
NFPA 105, Standard for Smoke Door Assemblies and Other Opening Protectives (2016 edition)
DSI Training & Certification Class Workbook
A DoorGapGauge™

Upon passing the DSI Certification exam, Door Safety Inspectors (DSI) receive an 8-1/2 in. x 11 in DSI certificate (suitable for framing), a DSI wallet card, and a one-year DSI-level subscription to DoorSafety.com.

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We have applied to the IRS to be recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational company, and are expecting to receive our letter of determination soon. Once approved, a portion of the class registration fee might be a tax-deductible contribution to the Safe Doors Save Lives Foundation on next year's federal tax return. (Stay tuned for more information.)

Note: The registration fee includes all class materials and standard-rate shipping charges in the contiguous United States of America and Canada. Actual shipping charges to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and other US Territories, and to other countries will be charged separately. Expedited shipping is available at the applicable rates and charged separately.

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