Introduction to Fire Safety Management

Index
BS 5539 Part 1, Monitoring fi re
detection and alarm systems,
107
BS 5588, Part 12:2004 Fire Precautions
in the Design, Construction and
Use of Buildings, 40–1, 273, 330
BS 5839:
Part 1, Fire Detection and Fire Alarm
Systems for Buildings, 7, 226,
229
Part 9, emergency voice
communications systems, 251
BS 5839-1:2002, False alarm reports,
311
BS 6651 Code of practice for
protection of structures against
lightning, 158
BS 7671 (IEE Wiring Regulations and
Electricity at Work Regulations
1989), 148
BS 8214:1990 (Code of Practice for fi re
doors with non-metallic leaves),
182–3
BS 8800, ‘Occupational health
and safety management
systems – guide’, 27, 268
concentrated on choice between
HSG65 and ISO 14001, 26
BS EN 54-11 type A, 226
BS EN 50020:2002 Electric apparatus
for potentially explosive
atmospheres – intrinsic safety
‘i’, 158
BSEN ISO 9001, Managing safety, 26
BSEN ISO 14001, Managing safety, 26
BSI (British Standards Institution), 25
producer of OHSAS 18001, 26
BSI PD974:
required safe escape time (RSET),
189
available safe escape time (ASET),
189
Building, defi ned, 172
Building construction classes, 178–9
purpose groups, 179, 238
Building construction and design:
legislative requirements, 173–5
in Building Regulations 2000
(amended 2006) and Building
Regulations (Scotland) 2003,
173, 174
preventive and protective measures,
175–88
classes of building construction,
178–9
compartmentation, 176–8
concealed spaces, 181–2
elements of structure, 175–6
materials of construction, 179–81
openings in compartmentation,
182–7
preventing external fi re spread,
187–8
thermal conductivity, 123
Building construction and layout, effect
on fi re growth rates, 124–5
404
Building design:
purpose of fi re safety in, 240
and safe evacuation, 246–7
Building Regulations 2000 (amended
2006), 173, 174, 356–8
Approved Document M, 175, 330
ensures reasonable access and
use of buildings, 259
enforced by local authorities, 175
‘Fire Safety – Approved Document B’
(DCLG), 174
functional requirements, 174–5
Section 2, fi re resistance for
structural elements, 178
Part A, stability of buildings, 357
Part B, fi re safety requirements for all
buildings, 175, 357
see also Building Regulations
Approved Document B
Part C, site preparation, 357
require buildings to assist fi re fi ghters
and have reasonable access for
a fi re appliance, 231
Building Regulations approval, 17
Building Regulations Approved
Document B, 123, 330
assistance in calculating numbers of
persons present, 192, 193
guidance on appropriate aspects
of means of escape based on
purpose groups, 191, 238
guidance to designers on fl ow of
persons through exits, 247
internal linings:
BS 476 classifi cations used for
lining material, 186, 187
classifi es performance of, 125
minimum requirements, surface
spread of fl ame of lining
materials, 185–7
limits openings in compartment
fl oors and walls, 182
Building Regulations (Scotland) 2003,
173, 174
functional requirements, 174–5
Buildings:
categories of use, 125–6
confi rmation of ‘clear’ status, 261–2
division into fi re alarm zones, 229
fi re loading within, 126
fi re protection in, 172–239
fi re protection (preventive and
protective measures), 173
large, role of smoke control and
ventilation, 210–11
legislative requirements, 173–5
means of escape, 188–236
Buildings provision, 54–5
Construction Phase Plan, 55
health and safety fi le, 55, 56
initial plan, 55
duties of designers, 54–5
effect of CDM and subsequent
changes, 54
formal arrangements for all aspects
of safety, 54
sources related to safety od
buildings, 54
Buildings and structures, convection
causing of fi re spread, 122
Buildings/sites at risk, 145
accountability for keys and their
issue, 145
basic measures preventing access to
roofs, 145
CCTV systems, 145
isolated/less used parts, access
restricted/monitored, 145
prevention of access, 145
Bunds, 318
for containment on-site of fi re fi ghting
agents, 321
Business continuity, in the aftermath of
fi re, 303
disaster management plan, 303
Business operations and activities,
targeted by arsonists, 147
Carbon monoxide (CO), 313
Case studies:
arson attack, school on North West
England, 166
child trapped by machinery of
automatic roller shutter door, 97
failure of supervision in a safe system
of work (SSOW), 114–15
fi re at Bradford City Football Club
(1985), 245–6, 262–3
fi re in a pharmaceutical production
site, 303–4
fi re risk assessment showing areas
needing improvement, 34–5
Flixborough disaster (1974), 134–5
Herald of Free Enterprise (car ferry),
81
injury, failure of chemical plant
owners to comply with section
31 of HSWA, 55–6
prosecution by Kent and Medway Fire
and Rescue Authority and the
Heath and Safety Executive, 28–9
shopping mall, increased insurance
premiums, 280
fi re safety issues addressed,
increase in premiums and
excess minimised, 281
Summerland leisure complex, Isle of
Man, 236, 245–6
Cavity insulation, 357
CCTV systems, 145
CDM (Construction (Design and
Management) Regulations)
(2007), 16, 42, 54, 156, 165,
362–7
emergency procedures, 366
emergency routes and exits, 366
fi re detection and fi re fi ghting, 366
and fi re prevention, 159–61, 366
fi re safety coordinator, 41
CFOA (Chief Fire Offi cers Association),
on equipment and false alarms,
295