Enrich Learning Trust has built a collaborative family of six educational establishments – two primary schools, four high schools including a sixth form. The Trust’s vision is to challenge, develop and innovate, ensuring that what they provide enables young people to become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.
As an education provider, Enrich Learning Trust takes its responsibilities of fire safety seriously, with self-closing fire doors fitted throughout their premises. Fire doors ensure that, in the event of a fire, its spread would be contained.
However, the Covid-19 crisis has required schools and educational establishments to ensure that ventilation within their buildings is maximised.
Propping fire doors open with random items is dangerous and illegal. So, the Trust was looking for a way that fire doors could be kept open to ease congestion without contravening fire safety standards.
The Dorgard is a safe and legal solution that allows fire doors to be kept open safely, while automatically closing them in the event of a fire. It has a rubber plunger which can hold the door open in any selected position. When a fire alarm sounds, the integral audio-electronics signals the plunger to retract, allowing the fire door to close automatically. Dorgard is battery powered, so there is no need for complex and expensive wiring into the building's fire alarm system. It can therefore be operated alongside any existing fire alarm system.
Enrich Learning Trust selected Safelincs to supply a total of 153 Dorgards. Peter Jordan, the Trust's COO commented that Safelincs was, "able to offer a competitive price, quick, flexible delivery and installation where required."
North Walsham High School is one of the schools in the trust and had 64 Dorgards installed by Safelincs. Facilities manager Paul Essam: "The installation was carried out quickly and efficiently; the team were so efficient and the whole job caused no extra work for our team."
The school can now operate with better ventilation, wheelchair access and all-round convenience without jeopardising safety or breaking the law. In addition, with hundreds of pupils and staff moving through the school throughout the day, constant opening and shutting of the doors has been considerably reduced, minimising wear and tear on both the doors and the corridors.
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