Door & Hardware Federation - Door and shutter scheme goes live
Attention building owners, facilities
managers and maintenance managers - long awaited Door &
Shutter Quality Mark accreditation scheme goes live
A long awaited nationwide Quality Mark accreditation
scheme for the repair and maintenance of metal doors and
shutters has now gone live. It is set to significantly
raise standards throughout the industry, according to
the Door and Hardware Federation.
The DHF Quality Mark can only be sported by companies
offering high standards in door repair. Door companies
from all over the country have now been accredited under
the scheme.
Said DHF chief executive officer Ian Wood: "As an
industry we have acted decisively by launching the DHF
Quality Mark. There is widespread ignorance amongst
building owners and occupiers, facilities managers and
maintenance managers about their legal obligations to
keep their doors and shutters in good working order and
this needs to be addressed.
"We estimate more than 80 per cent of the owners and
occupiers of the UK's industrial premises are risking
substantial losses and could be breaking the law because
they do not have preventative maintenance programmes in
place to protect their doors and shutters. As awareness
grows of the need for regular maintenance, companies
will be looking for door repair and service providers
that hold the DHF Quality Mark."
The new Quality Mark is only awarded to door companies
that have demonstrated their ability to provide high
quality repair and maintenance for industrial and
commercial doors following rigorous checks carried out
by the DHF.
Holders of the DHF Quality Mark for the Maintenance of
Doors and Shutters must:
· Demonstrate their experience in repair and maintenance
· Have a fully documented quality management system in
place
· Offer levels of training compliant with CSCS card
qualification or have NVQ
training procedures in place
· Keep repair and maintenance records for a minimum of
seven years
· Offer high levels of maintenance which include
maintenance contracts, 24
hour answering service and an emergency call out service
that provides onsite
visits within four hours of an emergency call
· Demonstrate full compliance with DHF Repair and
Service Approved Standard
TS004.
The creation of the Quality Mark follows recent changes
in legislation covering certification. Fire Officers no
longer certify industrial buildings, instead there is
now a self certification obligation on the building
owner/occupier to declare that correct maintenance
procedures are in place. The Workplace (Health, Safety &
Welfare) Regulations 1992 oblige employers to ensure
that industrial
doors in workplaces are regularly and competently
maintained. Other legislation contains additional
provisions requiring regular maintenance of powered
doors and fire resisting doors.
DHF Repair and Service Approved Standard TS004 governs
minimum maintenance standards for 11 categories of
products including all types of manual and power
operated industrial and commercial doors, shutters,
gates and barriers and power operated domestic garage
doors.
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