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Fire Flashcards

1
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Fire Regulations 2005

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Establishes responsible person
Requirement for Fire Risk Assessment.

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Fire Safety Act 2021

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Amends the Fire Order 2005. Act clarifies where a building contains 2 or more sets of domestic premesis the order applies:
- buildings structure and external walls + common parts
- doors between domestic and communal

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Types of Fire Risk Assesment

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Type 1 - Common parts only (non-destructive)
Type 2 - Common parts only (destructive)
Type 3 - Common parts and flats (non-destructive)
Type 4 - Common parts and flats (destructive)

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Who can complete FRA

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Depends on complexity of the property
Competence of individual

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How are non-domestic FRA’s recorded

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In line with PAS 79-1:2020

Government advice on buildings

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When is construction work required to meet the requirements of Building Regs

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Where building is extended, erected or materially altered Regulation 38 of the Building Regs Approved Document B requires a package of fire safety information be assembled and given to responsible person of premesis.

Fire Strategy often provided to collate that

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Fire Strategy items included

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Construction
Compartmentation Strategy
Means of escape and other fire safety features

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8
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Alternatives to ADB

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BS9999 - Management use of Buildings

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What are the sepeate parts of ADB?

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B1 - Means of Escape
B2 - Internal Fire Spread
B3 - Internal Fire Spread
B4 - External Fire Spread
B5 - Access and facilities for fire service

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ADB Purpose Groups

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Laboratories in group #

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ADB Travel distances

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18 metres - 1 option
45 metres - 2 options

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12
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Different types of evacuation

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Simultaneous Evacuation
Phased Evacuation
Delayed Evacuation
Stay Put Evacuation
Progressive Horizontal Evacuation

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13
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Where do you measure to to get height of building?

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To surface of upper floor i.e. not ceiling

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What does Fire Safety Regulations 2022 implement to residential properties

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All multi-occupied residential building of two or more sets of domestic properties:
- Fire Safety Instructions
- Fire Door Information

All multi-occupied resi over 11 metres: as above
- Annual and quarterly checks of fire doors

Part 2 in another card

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Fire Safety Regulations 2022 High-Rise Building Requirements

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Multi-occupied resi at least 18m or 7 storeys whichever’s first
- Building Plans
- External Wall Systems - inform FRS of design and materials
- Wayfinding Signage
- Lifts and Other Key Fire-Fighting Equipment: monthly checks
- Secure Information boxes: include info on RP and building floor plans

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Building Safety Act 2022 new bodies

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Building Safety Regulator
National Regulator of Construction Products
New Homes Ombudsmen

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17
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Building Safety Act 2022

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  • Gateways when constructing new High-Risk Buildings
  • Golden thread.
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Fire Door Competency

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Currently unregulated for undertaking surveys

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Fire Stopping Competency

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Currently unregulated

20
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Can you mix and match ADB and BS9999

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Avoid this, BS9999 is an approved code of practice. Advice is not to blend them.

21
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Fire Risk Assessment objectives and considerations

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Objectives:
- Identify fire hazards
- Consider those at risk
- Evaluate and Act
- Record, plan, instruct, inform and train
- Review

Consider:
- Emergency routes/exits
- Fire detection and warning systems
- Fire fighting equipment
- Removal/storage of dangerous substances
- Emergency Fire Evacuation Plan
- Vulnerable people
- Information to people
- Staff training

22
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What is a Fire Strategy for

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How the building is designed to meet Building Regulations & provides compartmentation lines

23
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When does a fire strategy need amending?

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Regulation 38 within Approved Document B - when building is erected, extended or material change - fire strategy captures this and should be provided to responsible person.
Escape routes

24
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What does Fire Order 2005 establish

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  • Responsible Person
  • Requirement for Fire Risk Assessment
25
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Fire Order 2005 who can survey

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‘Competent person’ - sufficient training and experience.

26
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Fire Order 2005 - how can we demonstrate competence

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Membership to accredited body:
e.g. member of FPA

27
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Minimum level to FRA’s

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Level 3 - low to medium risk

28
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Which work introduced High Risk Residential Building?

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BSA 2022

29
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How often should a fire risk assessment be updated

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Annually/on material change

30
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Three things to start fire?

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Heat
Fuel
Oxygen

31
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Principle Legislation describing responsibilities of building owner

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Fire Order 2005

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What is the Fire Safety Order

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The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - statutory Instrument places responsibility on individuals to carry out fire risk assessments, identify, manage and reduce risks.

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Purpose of Fire Risk Assessment

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Identify risks:
- existing and possible
- Help determine chance of fire occurring
- Dangers from fire workplace poses.

34
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Steps of Fire Risk Assessment

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  • Identify Fire Hazards
  • Identify people at risk
  • Evaluate, remove or reduce risks
  • Record findings, prepare emergency plan and provide training
  • Review and update fire risk assessment.
35
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Give examples of passive fire protection in a building

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  • Floor
  • ceiling
  • fire doors
  • windows
  • wall assemblies
  • fire resistant coatings
  • fire stopping
36
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Is a fire door passive or active fire protection

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Passive

37
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What is intumescent fire proofing and how does it work?

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Form of passive fire protection
An intumescent is a coating that, when exposed to heat, is rapidly transformed and expands many times its size to form a stable, char.

38
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Which material performs better in fire timber or steel

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Timber

39
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What are the different types of fire extinguisher?

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Co2 - electrical
Foam - Removes elements from fire triangle
wet/water
Dry - cardboard
chemical - cooking/oils

40
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How would you know if a building owner / manager is taking their fire safety responsibility seriously?

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  • Completed FRA
  • Implemented FRA
  • Responsible person designated
  • Fire Safety plan
  • Provide fire safety info
  • Provided training
  • Regular testing
  • Fire Strategy/updates info as necessary.
41
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What is a means of escape?

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Means of escape are doors and routes that occupants use to get out of a building in emergencies.

42
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What are the key themes of the Building Safety Act 2022

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  • Duty holder responsibilities
  • Golden Thread
    Building Safety Regulator
  • Mandatory Occurrence Reporting System for high risk buildings
  • Building Inspectors - Register Building Control Approvers.
43
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Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the combustion process, physics and chemistry,

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Fire triangle (oxygen, heat and fuel).
- combustion to occur fuel must reach its ignition temperature
- Development is exponential, doubling in size within several minutes.
- Fire - smoke plume - produces a ceiling jet - the heat then circles downward.
- Flashover point = where so hot all objects spontaneously catch fire.

Progress of fire into 3 stages:
1. Growth
2. Post-flashover
3 - Decay

44
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the physiological and psychological effects of fire:

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a. Heat > 1,000 degrees possible
b. Toxic and narcotic gases: Hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide
c. Low oxygen
d. small particles - prevent vision (smoke)
e. irritant to eyes and throat, affecting escape.

45
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Please explain how you assessed the fire safety compliance of proposed design for refurbishment of building A

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Approved Document B, Volume 2.
Assessed drawings, specification and details
Travel distances
New emergency lighting
Fire alarm systems
Access for fire and rescue

46
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What does R & E stand for in fire rating

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R = Structural load bearing
E = Integrity
I = Insulation

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