Membership Benefits

DHF offers significant benefits to its member companies in four distinct areas:

1. Technical
   We have information about:
   • European standards
   • health & safety legislation
   • building regulations
   • Machinery Directive
   • Construction Products Directive
   We represent the industry on:
   • standards committees
   • government bodies
   • other trade bodies, eg Passive Fire Protection Federation, Construction Products Association, National Building Specification Limited
   • certification bodies, eg LPCB, Exova Warrington Fire, Chiltern International Fire
2. Commercial
   • codes of practice & standards for products and services
   • specially negotiated membership fee to Confederation of Construction Specialists
   • cost effective DHF member insurance scheme, including employees liability of risks and public & product liability
   • DHF newsletter – Inside Track. Available via the members only section of the website
   • DHF publication - The Door Industry Journal
   • group membership of Construction Products Association
   • free telephone advice & guidance across a broad range of business issues & problems from the Croner Consulting Business Support Helpline
   • access to over 600 exclusive business and lifestyle discounts with LogBuy, the Benefits People
   • AA Fleetwide membership at competitive rates
   • CPC who can offer electrical/electronic products at competitive prices from over 2000 different suppliers
   • as an approved supplier of the DHF, Citation plc, a leading Health & Safety and Employment Law provider, can offer members a sector specific package
3. Promotion of members' interests
   • use of DHF logo
   • training and professional development for architects and specifiers
   • promotion of installation NVQ
   • site safety recommendations
   • promotion of the benefits of doing business with a DHF member to purchasers & specifiers
   • hot links from the DHF website to members' own sites
   • promotion of Federation through press releases
   • the CE marked fire products database on the DHF website
4. Focus Groups
   In business, you need to speculate in order to accumulate. For a small investment of time, members of DHF can gain maximum benefits. All members are recommended to join whichever of the seven DHF focus groups are appropriate to their business:
   • INDUSTRIAL DOOR
   • HARDWARE
   • GARAGE DOOR
   • METAL DOORSET
   • TIMBER DOORSET
   • GATE
   All groups consider technical, commercial and promotional matters specific to the particular products at each quarterly meeting.