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Introduction to Fire Safety Management Table 15.2 Criteria for sites that come within the scope of the Act Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Dangerous substances Quantity in tonnes Ammonium nitrate (as described in Note 1 of this Part) 350 2500 Ammonium nitrate (as described in Note 2 of this Part) 1250 5000 Arsenic pentoxide, arsenic (V) acid and/or salts 1 2 Arsenic trioxide, arsenious (III) acid and/or salts 0.1 0.1 Bromine 20 100 Chlorine 10 25 Nickel compounds in inhalable powder form (nickel monoxide, nickel dioxide, nickel sulphide, trinickel disulphide, dinickel trioxide) 1 1 Ethyleneimine 10 20 Fluorine 10 20 Formaldehyde (concentration 90%) 5 50 Hydrogen 5 50 Hydrogen chloride (liquefi ed gas) 25 250 Lead alkyls 5 50 Liquefi ed extremely fl ammable gases (including LPG) and natural gas (whether liquefi ed or not) 50 200 Acetylene 5 50 Ethylene oxide 5 50 Propylene oxide 5 50 Methanol 500 5000 4,4-Methylenebis (2-chloraniline) and/or salts, in powder form 0.01 0.01 Methylisocyanate 0.15 0.15 Oxygen 200 2000 Toluene diisocyanate 10 100 Carbonyl dichloride (phosgene) 0.3 0.75 Arsenic trihydride (arsine) 0.2 1 Phosphorus trihydride (phosphine) 0.2 1 Sulphur dichloride 1 1 Sulphur trioxide 15 75 Polychlorodibenzofurans and polychlorodibenzodioxins (including TCDD), calculated in TCDD equivalent 0.001 0.001 The following carcinogens: 4-Aminobiphenyl and/or its salts, benzidine and/or salts, bis(chloromethyl) ether, chloromethyl methyl ether, dimethylcarbamoyl chloride, dimethylnitrosomine, hexamethylphosphoric triamide, 2-naphthylamine and/or salts, 1,3-propanesultone and 4-nitrodiphenyl 0.001 0.001 Automotive petrol and other petroleum spirits 5000 50 000 368
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Introduction to Fire Safety Managem
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Contents PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Contents 9.4 Building construction
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Preface Introduction to Fire Safety
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About the authors Andrew Furness is
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Illustrations credits Figure 5.1 Co
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Illustrations credits Principles of
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Fire safety foundations To enable s
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There can also be signifi cant emot
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REDUNDANCIES REDUCED CASH FLOW INCR
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If a prosecution is brought for a b
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Figure 1.11 Employers are responsib
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Health and safety arrangements Empl
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fi re specifi c issues that the RRF
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Door closer Fire door Keep shut Fig
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Figure 1.19 Stair lift in situation
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So, whom would she sue for her loss
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Once the court has established negl
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Figure 1.25 Powers of enforcement a
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140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Figure 1.
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External factors Internal factors A
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the company had fully complied with
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Figure 2.1 ACoP of Management of he
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The organisation element of a safet
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detached building, which included o
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Organising for safety 3.1 Introduct
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Directors and senior managers often
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➤ Ensuring access and egress and
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Table 3.1 A summary of individuals
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and inform employers and other self
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Figure 3.8 Safety representatives h
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➤ To consider enforcing authority
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If a piece of work equipment that i
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4. First aid information 5. Fire fi
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Figure 3.13 Designers have a respon
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3.11 Example NEBOSH questions for C
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Safety culture 4.1 Introduction The
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There are various ‘safety climate
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the culture because if there is dis
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Communication is defi ned as: The i
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emergency medical care and rescue w
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on how much people will remember. A
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Individual factors affecting the sc
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on the culture of an organisation.
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Figure 4.11 Consultation with emplo
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esponsibilities are added such as a
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4.9 Human failure Human beings are
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safety in a way that takes their wh
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Principles of risk assessment 5.1 I
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5.2.6 Risk control systems (RCS) Th
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➤ Safety representatives ➤ Desi
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➤ Location inspection: ➤ Site s
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There are a number of methods for e
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Semi-quantitative analysis The use
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the risk controls, particularly wit
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the hazards that arise from the act
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No. Hazards Persons at risk Risk ra
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General principles of control 6.1 I
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Consultation and the arrangements f
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needs. This assessment must also ta
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High 100% Level of supervision Low
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Table 6.1 Sources of information av
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The documentation should be written
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their condition. Once these often l
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The HSE inspector dealing with the
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OXYGEN Always present in the air Ad
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➤ Boilers, internal combustion en
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capable of producing more vapour th
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unburnt fuel (unburnt products of p
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include basements. On these occasio
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7.5 Explosion As the terminology su
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substance in air may cause an explo
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can be broken down into primary and
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Nozzle Ignition Supressor Pressure
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huge fl ammable gas cloud and that
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Number 25 20 15 10 5 0 Electrical C
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8.1.5 Chemical and LPG (hazardous m
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The selection of incorrect plant an
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Flammable substances Risks arise fr
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Arson also often occurs during tea
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Business operations and activities
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Causes and prevention of fi re Tabl
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Figure 8.16 External tank facility
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Figure 8.19 Example of suitable fl
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Ventilation of storage areas Ventil
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➤ All soft furnishings within the
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LPG powered vehicles are becoming m
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Figure 8.28 Site rules poster The c
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Table 8.4 Electrical safety on cons
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Figure 8.30 Tar boiler used to heat
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Appendix 8.1 Example hot work permi
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Appendix 8.2 Example hot work check
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Fire Protection Causes and preventi
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Backdraught - an explosive reaction
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the design and construction of the
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SC SC Fire door Fire-resisting wall
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Figure 9.9 Class A - complete non-c
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potential to reduce the performance
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Table 9.2 Examples of the marking r
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In many cases services and the hole
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inter -mediate standard but small r
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Evacuation time Evacuation procedur
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total uncontrolled evacuation. Typi
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Table 9.5 Density factors given in
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A x B A - B = Stage 1 B - C = Stage
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stairs 3 Actual Travel Distance Dir
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stairs FIRE WALL space in these are
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A A B 45 (2.5 distance CB) B Figu
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this situation it will be necessary
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Therefore all dead-end corridors th
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Number of escape stairs needed is d
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Figure 9.46 Metal fi re escape abov
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Figure 9.50 Sprinklers that moderat
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Table 9.10 Categorisation of emerge
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Sign, Colour & Pictogram Descriptio
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factors all of which should be iden
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are used to prevent accidental disc
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Figure 9.66 Typical warning sign to
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Control valve Valve spring Discharg
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1.5 m 35m Figure 9.72 Plan drawing
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Figure 9.74 Proprietary device for
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All such systems, including the ins
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during periods of sleep (hotels, ho
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➤ A fl oor above 7.5 metres if it
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Less than 50m Dry riser inlet Figur
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9.7 Example questions for Chapter 9
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Appendix 9.2 Limitations on travel
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Detection - is the process of recei
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to the escape routes. Examples of p
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assistance to use the means of esca
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➤ Emergency management strategy
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In the early morning of 22 August 1
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➤ Assisting the safety briefi ng
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signal and be suffi ciently differe
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Fire wardens/marshals Role - the te
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when required. In order to achieve
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equires that employers make what is
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Figure 10.30 Visual and audible com
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were recovering while a disaster fu
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8. Could you raise the alarm if you
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Location: Inspected by: Safety of p
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Figure 11.2 The outcome of a failur
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Each of these factors must be inclu
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Figure 11.5 Records should be kept
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Table 11.3 Overview of a typical in
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➤ Scoping the audit: ➤ This is
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installations, etc. together with c
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When establishing its risk manageme
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Monitoring, auditing and reviewing
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12.1.1 Reasons for investigating fi
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Reactive monitoring - reporting, re
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The amount of time spent on gatheri
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12.1.6 Internal systems for managin
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Dangerous occurrences - any dangero
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Table 12.7 The Fire and Rescue Serv
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Report of Fire KEY Tick the appropr
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Figure 12.15 Appropriate PPE requir
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In any event, clearing the site of
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Part A Reactive monitoring - report
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1 2 Reactive monitoring - reporting
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Figure 13.1 The environmental impac
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Figure 13.3 Contaminated water foll
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available and the nature of any inc
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Figure 13.7 Portable tank mounted o
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Figure 13.11 Fire fi ghting run-off
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Environmental impact of fi re Phosp
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2. EMERGENCY CONTACT DETAILS Emerge
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Environmental impact of fi re 4. CH
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14.2.5 Risk control systems (RCS) A
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14.3.2 Recording the assessment A r
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should be implemented to reduce the
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Figure 14.4 Aerosol container noted
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Worked example 5 - Persons cannot s
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The contents of an emergency plan h
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No. Secondary hazards Persons Risk
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Abbreviations AFFF Aqueous Film For
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Index BS 5539 Part 1, Monitoring fi
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Index Demolition work, contributes
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Index Fencing, as a security strate
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Index Fire risk assessment process
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Index Hazardous Installation Direct
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Index Montreal Protocol, 221 Motiva
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Index Risk matrix: for determining
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Index SSOW (Safe systems of work),
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