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Combined with panic hardware, our accredited emergency exit steel doors provide a safe and quick means of escape when it’s needed most. This helps to ensure a building meets relevant regulations while keeping its occupants as safe as possible.
Our range of emergency push bars and touch bars are suitable for public and non-public areas, with EN 1125 and EN 179 standards applying respectively. All emergency exit doors must adhere to one of these European product standards. Along with the confidence that comes with our CE marking, ISO 9001 proves our ability to consistently meet customer requirements.
The Defender Safeguard is highly versatile, and comes with a range of options for use as a fire exit door or a double fire escape.
We can produce steel fire exit doors as either a single or double doorset and with a range of security ratings, ensuring we deliver a truly bespoke solution that meets both you and your client’s requirements.
With either one-, two-, three- or four-point locking systems, our fire exit doors offer ample reassurance against forced entry. A huge range of panic hardware is available across our entire range of doorsets, and options for outside access locks also provide hassle free external access for permitted personnel.
According to The Door and Hardware Federation (DHF) escape doors must be readily openable, must open in the direction of escape, and must not require more than one mechanism to be manipulated meaning doors have to be ‘single action to escape’ (SATE).
Also known as an emergency exit or panic escape door, they are equipped with single action to escape mechanisms in the form of hardware like push bars, push pads and lever handles, providing a quick exit from a building in the case of emergencies. Only push bars are suitable for public use whereas push pads and SATE lever handles rely on building users being trained as to their operation. These doors do not have to be fire rated, unless the fire risk assessment identifies a need to do so, they simply provide a means of escape from a fire and are not designed to stop the spread of fire.
This is a fire rated door leading to the outside of a building, which keeps flames and smoke contained inside, preventing the spread of fire to external combustible materials. The Defender Fireshield Plus is our specialised external fire door, and can be fire rated up to E60 or EI60. In contrast to a fire exit door, these do not have to be equipped with panic hardware, and instead their main use is to keep flames and smoke contained, protecting any outdoor properties or pedestrians.
