Hi all, I wondered if anyone has a view on the following: If there are toilets that open out on to a protected escape stairs within an office block, would these doors generally be required to be 30 mins fire resistant/smoke sealed etc? (as you would expect to find on doors opening out from the office areas on to the stairs). Or would it generally be acceptable for doors not to have to achive this due to the low risk nature of the rooms (i.e. no combustibes stored within, no fixed electrical installations etc). I know that a decision on this would be taken following a risk assessment, but would like to guage opinion (assuming the premises to be a typical office environment with 30 min fire doors opening out on to the stairs from these offices), with entrance doors to the toilets accessed via the propeted stairs. Thanks

Approved Document B indicates on Page 52, Section 4.38 that the doors do not need to be fire-rated although there are limits as to what may be contained in the toliet / washroom - e.g. it may not also be a cloakroom. The link provided by Max will take you to this document which is freely donwloadable. Clearly a FRA assessment still needs to be carried out anyway as you have already indicated.