Introduction to Fire Safety Management

15.14.22 Lighting
Suitable and suffi cient lighting should be provided in 
every place of work and traffi c route. Wherever reasonably 
practicable, this should be by natural light. The colour of 
artifi cial lighting should not affect or change the percep-
tion of any safety signs or signals and secondary lighting 
should be provided where there would be a risk to health 
and safety from the failure of primary artifi cial lighting.
15.15
The Control of Major Accident 
Hazards Regulations 1999 (SI 743)
These regulations shall apply to an establishment where 
dangerous substances listed in the following tables are 
present in the quantities shown. The regulations expli-
citly do not apply to:
➤
The transport of those substances including tempo-
rary storage and vehicles
➤
The transport of those substances in a pipeline or 
pumping station
➤
An establishment which is under the control of:
➤
The Secretary of State for the purposes of the 
Ministry of Defence
➤
The service authorities of a visiting force
➤
Substances that create a hazard from ionizing radia-
tion on a licensed site
➤
Extractive industries concerned with exploration for, 
and the exploitation of, minerals
➤
Waste 
landfi ll sites.
➤
These regulations shall not apply in Northern Ireland.
Table 15.3 shows categories of substances and prepa-
rations not specifi cally named in Table 15.2. Substances 
and preparations shall be classifi ed for the purposes of 
this Schedule according to regulation 5 of the Chemicals 
(Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) 
Regulations 2002.
In the case of substances and preparations with 
properties giving rise to more than one classifi cation, for 
the purposes of these regulations the lowest thresholds 
shall apply.