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Inspection · tagging · Form 74 records

Fire door inspections across Brisbane

Fire and smoke doors in Queensland commercial and common-property buildings must be inspected every 6 or 12 months. We connect you with QBCC-licensed technicians for inspection, tagging and repairs, with one compliance report for your Occupier's Statement.

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Get the inspection arranged

Tell us the building and roughly how many doors, and we will arrange the inspection.

AS 1851-2012Inspections to the Australian standard
QBCC-licensedContractor arranged for every job
Every door taggedNot a sample, each door recorded
6 or 12 monthsInterval set by your building class

Fire door services we arrange in Brisbane

From the routine inspection to the repairs it finds. One call, a licensed contractor, and one report for the whole building.

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AS 1851-2012

Fire door inspections

Every fire and smoke door opened, closed and checked: leaf, frame, seals, closer, latch and gaps. Each result recorded.

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Every door

Fire door tagging

Each door identified and tagged, so the record follows the door from one inspection to the next.

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Tested set

Fire door repairs

Closers, hinges, latches, seals and gaps brought back to the door's tested configuration, then re-checked.

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AS 1905.1

Fire door replacement

When a leaf is beyond repair or was never compliant, a rated doorset fitted and tagged.

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Why fire doors fail inspection

Most failed doors were compliant once. They drifted. These are the faults an inspection finds most often:

  • Held open. Wedges, hooks and furniture stop the door closing in a fire.
  • Will not close and latch. A worn or badly set closer leaves the door ajar.
  • Gaps too big. Hinges drop and frames move until the gaps are outside the tested limits.
  • Damaged or painted seals. A seal that is painted over or torn cannot do its job.
  • Missing tag or label. Without the label, nobody can show what the door is rated to.
  • Wrong hardware. Holes, kick plates or locks added that the doorset was never tested with.

Found a fault? We arrange fire door repairs and, where a door is past saving, replacement.

Why the duty lands on you

In Queensland the obligation sits on the OCCUPIER of the building, not the owner. That catches a lot of tenants and body corporate committees by surprise, because in other states the wording is different.

Each year the occupier gives an Occupier's Statement — Form 74 — to the Commissioner of the Queensland Fire Department. It states that the building's prescribed fire safety installations have been maintained to the standard. Fire and smoke doors are one of those installations.

You cannot sign that statement honestly without the inspection records behind it. That is what this service exists to get you.

Fire Doors Brisbane arranges the inspection that has to sit behind it — see the Occupier's Statement.

What it rests on

LawBuilding Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld)
DocumentOccupier's Statement (Form 74)
Given toCommissioner of the Queensland Fire Department
StandardAS 1851-2012
IntervalsQueensland Development Code MP 6.1

Read the regulation

Who we arrange inspections for

The person who signs Form 74 is the occupier. In practice, that is usually one of these:

  • Body corporate committees and strata managers — apartment and townhouse complexes, where every unit entry door is usually a fire door
  • Building and facility managers — offices, shopping centres and mixed-use towers
  • Aged care, hospitals and schools — often on the 6-month cycle
  • Hotels and motels — corridors of rated room doors, on the yearly cycle
  • Tenants who are the occupier — a single-tenant building can make the tenant responsible
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Why use us

We are not the contractor

We arrange the inspection and step back. The contractor quotes and invoices you directly, so the report is not a sales document for the repairs it recommends.

Queensland rules, not Sydney's

Form 74 and the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008, not the NSW annual fire safety statement that most online guidance describes.

Every door, recorded

Not a representative sample. Each door tagged and tracked so next year's inspection has a history to work from.

How it works

1. You call

Tell us the building type and roughly how many doors. That is enough to work out who should attend.

2. We arrange the inspection

With a QBCC-licensed fire protection contractor covering your part of south-east Queensland.

3. Every door inspected and tagged

To AS 1851-2012, each door recorded individually, with defects written up.

4. You get the record

One report for the building, in a form that supports your Form 74 and can be produced if the Queensland Fire Department asks.

Common questions

The questions occupiers and body corporate committees actually ask.

How often do fire doors have to be inspected in Queensland?

It depends on the building. The Queensland Fire Department's advice is that fire doors in Class 5, 6, 9a and 9c buildings (offices, shops, hospitals and aged care) are inspected every 6 months, and fire doors in all other buildings, including apartments and hotels, every year. The inspection is done to AS 1851-2012.

Is it an annual fire safety statement?

Not in Queensland. That is the New South Wales instrument. Queensland uses an Occupier's Statement, Form 74, given to the Commissioner of the Queensland Fire Department under the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008.

Who is responsible — the owner or the tenant?

The regulation puts the duty on the occupier. That can be a tenant occupying the building. On common property it is the body corporate. It is worth establishing before the statement is due.

Do all the doors have to be done, or a sample?

All of them. Each fire and smoke door is inspected individually, tagged and recorded.

How long do the records have to be kept?

At least two years, kept at or near the building, and produced when the Queensland Fire Department asks for them.

All the common questions

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Fire doors coming due?

Tell us the building and roughly how many doors. We arrange the inspection with a QBCC-licensed contractor, and you get one record for the whole building.

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