3 Drawer Fire Rated Filing Cabinet 120 Minute

3 Drawer Fire Rated Filing Cabinet 120 Minute: a 3 drawer cabinet with a certified 120 minute fire rating.

Fire rated filing cabinets with an independently certified rating stated in minutes and by what the rating protects. These are heavy, they need a floor that can take them, and they are the right answer for records you would have to explain losing.

Specification

• Size: 520 mm wide by 720 mm deep by 1020 mm tall
• Capacity: 3 drawers of foolscap suspension files
• Security: key lock as standard with digital and combination options
• Fire rating: 120 minutes for paper to NT Fire 017 120P
• Weight: about 320 kg
• Warranty: ten years

What arrives

• Cabinet
• Keys
• Test certificate

Before you buy

Fire ratings only mean something when they are certified. Paper chars at about 175 degrees and digital media fails far lower, so the rating states both the time and what it protects: a 60P rating protects paper for 60 minutes and a data or DIS rating protects disks and drives. Look for a test certificate to EN 15659 or NT Fire 017 with a named test house. Anything sold as fire resistant without a certificate is a steel cabinet with insulation in the doors and we do not list it as fire rated. Anything taller than about 1.2 metres must be anchored to the wall. A filing cabinet with two drawers open will tip forward under its own weight, which is why our cabinets have a counterweight and an interlock that allows one drawer at a time, and why tall shelving comes with wall ties. Personal data has to be held securely under UK data protection law, and a lockable cabinet is the usual control for paper records. It works with a retention schedule and secure destruction at the end of it. A locked cabinet with no retention schedule behind it is a filing problem rather than a compliance one. These cabinets are heavy. Check the floor loading before installing on a suspended floor or above ground level and tell us the floor when you order.

Which option to buy

Flat Packed is delivered flat packed to your door for assembly on site, which is the cheaper option and takes about 30 minutes a unit. Pre Assembled is delivered built and ready to use, carried to the room on the ground floor as standard. We sell storage that has to hold real weight and sometimes has to satisfy a regulator. Every listing states the external size, the tested capacity, the lock and whether it carries an independently certified fire rating, because in this trade the word fireproof gets used for products that have never been tested.