Introduction to Fire Safety Management

Index

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Index
404
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
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