Fire Safety Flashcards
What is the difference between BS 9999 and Approved document Part B?
Building Regulation Approved Document B can be applied to more common building solutions, but can prove unacceptable for larger, more complex buildings. By taking a more holistic view to fire safety, BS 9999 allows compensatory measures to offset, e.g. travel distances and/ or total escape door width.
What is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?
This sets out your duty for your ownership on the premises as duty holder and ensuring your staff fire trained.
You are considering who at risk, eliminate the risk, provide precautions to deal with risk, remove flammable materials, create a plan for emergencies, maintain general precautions, keep a risk assessment under review.
What are some typical travel distances?
Residential one direction = 9m, multiple direction = 18m
Office, shops and commercial one direction = 18m, multiple direction = 45m
How does the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 2005 describe escape lighting?
Emergency routes and exits requiring illumination must be provided with emergency lighting of adequate intensity in the case of failure of their normal lighting
What are Alternative escape routes?
Escape routes that are sufficiently separated by direction and space or by fire resisting construction to ensure that one is still available if the other is affected by fire.
You note a building is 18m high, what do you consider?
Banning the use of combustible materials in external walls of high rise buildings above 18m is a Building Regulations amendment.
What is the new fire legislation you are aware of?
THE FIRE SAFETY ACT
The Act clarifies that responsible persons (RPs) for multi-occupied residential buildings must manage and reduce the risk of fire for the structure and external walls of the building, including cladding, balconies and windows, and entrance doors to individual flats that open into common parts.
What considerations should be made with regards to cladding and fire?
Barriers used to close concealed spaces and prevent penetration of smoke or flame to restrict the movement of fire within a building.
Non-combustible materials.
What certificate can you get for cladding?
An EWS1 certificate is an External Wall System Fire Review certificate. They come into play when a leaseholder is buying or selling or re-mortgaging an apartment in a multi-storey multi-occupied residential building. Stating if clear or not.
