IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue Infrastucture Remarks
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S 1.10 Use of safety doors
Initiation responsibility: Head of Site/Bldg Technical Service
Implementation responsibility: Site/Bldg Technical Service
Safety doors, e.g. steel sheet doors, are to be preferred to normal office doors
for the following reasons:
- on account of their stability (DIN 18 103), they provide a higher degree of
protection against breaking and entering (e.g. for basement and delivery
entrances); and
- when designed as self-closing fire doors (FH door T30, DIN 18 082), they
delay fire propagation.
In addition to the areas prescribed by the fire authorities (cf. S 1.6 Compliance
with fire-protection regulations and requirements imposed by the local fire
department), use of safety doors is advisable in rooms requiring special
protection, such as server room, document archives or data media archives.
Additional controls:
- Has the use of safety doors been checked?
- Are fire and smoke doors actually closed or are they wedged open, for
example?
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000