Introduction to Fire Safety Management

8.4.2 Cookers, associated cooking equipment 
and installations
Management systems that include those issues covered 
under electrical safety must be considered when using 
Figure 8.12
Electrical supply testing
Figure 8.13
Portable appliance testing

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electrical cookers and cooking equipment. In addition 
to the management systems detailed above establish-
ing a planned preventive maintenance scheme (PPM) 
should take into account heat controlling devices such 
as thermocouples as it is unlikely that the portable appli-
ance testing will entirely eliminate the risks from such 
equipment.
Any gas cooking equipment and installation should 
be installed by a member of the Council of Registered 
Gas Installers (CORGI). Gas installations to appliances 
should be by fi xed piping and/or protected/armoured 
fl exible tubing. In the case of temporary cooking supplies 
and installations (e.g. in construction operations) LPG 
gas cylinders must be located outside buildings and 
protected from unauthorised interference.
Ideally as technology advances gas systems 
and appliances should ‘fail to safe in the event of an 
emergency, i.e. fi re’. It is likely that gas supplies to 
appliances and installations will therefore be linked to 
alarm/detection systems that will automatically isolate 
the gas supplies upon actuation. It is worthy of note 
that gas supplies should not be able to be re-energised 
after an emergency in such a way that gas supplies are 
allowed to ‘free fl ow’ with the presence of an ignition 
source to control the gas release.
With latter day installations such as in hotels and 
restaurants with large kitchens, an additional safety 
measure can also be introduced such as the provision 
of fi xed fi re fi ghting installations. These will be covered 
in more detail in later chapters.
As in the case of electrical testing, any systems 
should be subject to regular inspection and maintenance