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Fun Friday fire quiz part three
The first two fun Friday fire quizzes were so red hot we’ve decided to rekindle our love for brain teasers. Are you a bright spark? Give our quiz a try!
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The reasons people ignore fire alarms
What do people do when the fire alarm sounds? Some of these comments of why people ignore fire alarms are shocking.
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How to improve fire door access
Closed fire doors save lives but they can get in the way. What solutions are there to improve access for everyone?
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The importance of effective lockdown
Lockdown is a security measure used in buildings to keep people safe from an immediate threat. Dorgard Pro can form part of an effective lockdown procedure.
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It’s time to bring wireless fire safety into the modern world
Motorola invented the mobile phone in 1973. Since then, we have said goodbye to searching for change to use a telephone box, and dragging spirals of cords from beneath the living room door to get some privacy. Living in a digital age, things move fast.
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Valentine’s Day quiz
Do you have a burning passion for fire-related love songs? Try our Fireco quiz!
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Dorgard Pro: Homework Done
Twenty-four years ago we invented Dorgard, the very first hold-open fire door device to close automatically on the sound of the alarm. We continue to innovate, listening to our customers and learning what they need and what works.
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Do you know what to do when there’s a fire?
The alarm sounds. A fire has broken out and your residents are asleep. Do you know what to do? Our handy guide will explain all.
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Fun Friday fire quiz part two
Hot on the heels of the first fun Friday fire quiz, it’s part two! Are you a cool quizzer? A real hotshot? Click here to get started!
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Workplace health and safety fails
Health and safety in the workplace is essential. Decrease the risks with the correct preventative measures — and common sense! Here’s what happens when it goes wrong.
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The killing fumes — why smoke is more deadly than fire
Fire and smoke are a deadly duo. However, smoke has more tricks up its sleeve. Most fire deaths are not caused by burns from flames, but by inhaling smoke. Smoke leads to disorientation and clouds your vision.
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The smarter way to hold fire doors open
Dorgard SmartSound™ is the latest addition to the Fireco product range. Keep your fire doors open legally, safe in the knowledge that Dorgard SmartSound will automatically enable them to close if a fire alarm sounds.
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Silent evacuation of a care home
Evacuating a care home has its own unique challenges. Elderly residents could be bedbound, suffering from dementia, hard of hearing, or unable to move without assistance. Added to this is the distress that a loud fire alarm can cause to vulnerable residents.
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Fire Door Safety Week
Fire Door Safety Week is a time when the fire industry works to raise awareness of the critical role fire doors play in keeping people safe.
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Dorgard. The original and the best
In 1994 our chairman Neil Purssey invented the first wireless hold-open device for fire doors. Dorgard reacted to the sound of a fire alarm to automatically close the door. It did that then and it does that now.
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Fun Friday fire quiz
It’s our fun Friday quickfire fire quiz. Will you get full marks in a blaze of glory? Or fizzle out like a wet firework? Give it a try!
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Fireco workplace quiz
How well do you know your workplace fire safety? Take the Fireco quiz to find out!
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Fun Friday Quiz
The sun is shining and everything’s heating up. See if you can keep your cool answering our Fun Friday Quiz!
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21st Century Town Criers
Mobile phones are the town criers of the 21st Century, everyone finds out news from their device. DMS is a text message emergency alert system for your phone.
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How to keep warehouses and industrial sites fire safe
The recent fire at a Tottenham warehouse brings to the forefront the specific challenges with fire safety in warehouses and industrial sites.
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Every time you leave a fire door open, a fairy dies
Every time a fire door is wedged open, a fairy dies. A closed fire door policy doesn’t work as people wedge doors open. This means they are useless in a fire.
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Post-Its are ectoplasm
Don’t get me wrong, they can be useful. There are those workshops where people slap them around on walls with words like ‘OPTIMISM’ and ‘EMPOWERMENT’ scrawled on them. I am sure that can help but it’s a bit earnest for my taste. I prefer quiet reflection.
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The next cucumber
Notices are one of those things that give me nervous twitches. If you want a clue about what an organisation is like, read its notices. A notice is so often a sign of a glitch in the works. For the sake of my sanity, I have named these glitches cucumbers.
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The chicken and the wheelie bin
I used to be quite calm about door wedges before I worked at Fireco. Even on fire doors. In hotels, universities, factories – in any place you can think of, the door wedge rules. It’s cheap, it’s effective and it’s lethal.
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