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The short answer is: yes. If you complete our Fire Door Inspection Course, which is a FireQual Recognised Programme, you can inspect fire doors in the UK. That is exactly what this type of course is designed to support. As the largest provider of fire door inspection...

Since the introduction of the Building Safety Act, competence is no longer a loose professional expectation. It is a requirement that must be defined, evidenced and sustained. Yet across construction and fire safety, competence is still spoken about in generalities...

The intention of the Building Safety Act was to end ambiguity. The Golden Thread of Information is central to that. It is meant to be a defensible, audited chain of evidence demonstrating that those undertaking safety-critical tasks are competent, qualified and...

FireQual Recognised Programmes are structured courses that have been independently reviewed by FireQual and judged to be appropriate training within the fire safety industry. At UK Fire Door Training, we took the decision to have our courses recognised because we...

Following the devastating Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people back in 2017, building safety has come under growing scrutiny. And rightly so. Findings from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry showed that the tragedy was the result of systemic failures. Many of the deaths...

The concept of fire stopping is nothing new. But the term has only really come into the mainstream in the last 10-15 years. In this blog post, we’ll look at what fire stopping is, why it matters, and what you can expect when you enrol onto our Fire Stopping...

UK Fire Door Training isn’t just ahead of the curve, we have consistently set the bar of what high quality, cutting edge practical fire door training looks like and feels like. The fire door training landscape in the UK right now is full of generic, one size fits all...

The fire door training industry has grown rapidly in recent years and UK Fire Door Training has emerged as the country's largest fire door training provider. There are now dozens of companies providing some sort of fire door training. Whilst there is some difference...

Fire safety training is on the increase, the need for fire door training is no different. Individuals working on fire doors need to be able to prove that they are competent, that they have the correct skills, knowledge and behaviours (SKEB) to work on site to fit,...