Introduction to Fire Safety Management

15.30.4 Fire safety signs
These are signs which:
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Provide information on escape routes and emer-
gency exits in case of fi re
Example fi re safety signs
Example Meaning
Emergency escape route sign
Fire 
extinguisher
Fire point sign

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Summary of key legal requirements
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A copy of the technical fi le must be held for at least 
10 years.
15.31.1 Essential health and safety requirements
The essential health and safety requirements are detailed 
in Schedule 3 to the regulations and cover a wide range 
of issues including:
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Materials and products used to construct machinery
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Integral 
lighting
➤
Design of machinery to facilitate handling
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Controls, control systems and control devices
➤
Failure of power supplies and control circuits
➤
Software
➤
Protection against mechanical hazards
➤
Characteristics of guards and protection devices
➤
Protection against other hazards
➤
Maintenance
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Indicators (warning devices and instructions).
Certain categories of machines (agi-foodstuffs machin-
ery, portable machinery, etc.) have additional essen-
tial health and safety requirements that must also be 
satisfi ed.
Where machinery is manufactured in conformity with 
published EU standards which have also been published 
as identically worded national standards (transposed 
harmonised standards) it is presumed that the machin-
ery will comply with the listed essential health and safety 
requirements.
15.31.2 Declaration of conformity and CE marking
The declaration of conformity is the procedure whereby 
the manufacturer declares that the item of machinery 
complies with the essential health and safety require-
ments and CE marking is used to indicate this on the 
machinery.
The declaration should state:
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The business name and address of the manu 
-
facturer
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A description of the machinery (including make, type 
and serial number)
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All relevant provisions that the machinery complies 
with
➤
The name and address of the approved body and 
the number of the certifi cate of approval where 
applicable
➤
The name and address of the approved body to 
which the technical fi le was sent or has drawn up a 
certifi cate of adequacy
➤
The transposed harmonised standards used
➤
The national standards and any technical specifi ca-
tions used
➤
The person authorised to sign the declaration.
CE marking should be fi xed to machinery in a distinct, 
legible and indelible manner and no other marking which 
may be confused with the CE mark should be used on 
machinery.