Fire Door Asbestos Testing

In 2018, an Asbestos survey was undertaken for our building, and as Asbestos Register was created. Unfortunately, this survey was not comprehensive and did not consider fire doors or make any mention of the fire doors. It is unclear why the fire doors were overlooked as there has been speculation for many years by multiple parties that our fire doors may have asbestos.

Our recent fire safety measure assessment specifically stated that our unit fire doors have asbestos. The SC took one sample from a unit fire door and had it tested by a certified laboratory. The result was negative for asbestos. With this uncertainty and the burden that asbestos in our doors could bring, the SC has arranged for formal testing and reporting. The report would sit beside the earlier asbestos register to provide a more comprehensive paired register. The report will also allow us to make appropriate decisions in regard to meeting our statutory requirements for the fire doors.

The SC will coordinate with unit occupants to allow visual assessment of all doors; and with specific unit occupants (4, 6, 9 & 19) for physical sampling.

Monday
14 December 2020
at 9:30am

​Hibbs will be the service provider for this important work which will assess:

• 10 x fire stair doors (2 on each level)
• 5 paired electrical cupboard doors (1 pair on each level)
• 20 x unit doors (4 on each level)

The Hibbs scope of works includes:
1. Visually inspect the spine of all fire doors to record details of the compliance plate (if one is present). Note only four of the unit doors will have the spine inspected which is considered representative of all suspect unit fire doors.
2. Sample the following fire doors:

• Fire stair doors: Ground (South), Level 2 (North) and Level 4 (South)
• Paired electrical cupboard doors: Ground (both doors) and Level 3 (both doors)
• Unit doors: Units 4, 6, 9 and 19

3. Analyse samples at the Hibbs NATA accredited laboratory
4. Prepare a Fire Door Asbestos Register for the building including photographs