A novel approach to not using fire door closers

A care home has failed to establish that management arrangements could compensate for the absence of self-closers on bedroom doors. The care home argued that it could compensate for the absence of self-closers with "enhanced staff intervention procedures", including the closing of any open bedroom doors in the event of a fire.

The secretary of state, on the advice of the government’s chief fire and rescue adviser, has ruled that the fire and rescue enforcing authority was right to insist on appropriate self-closing or hold-open devices on the doors, in order to provide quick and safe evacuation in the event of danger.

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