Premises-Specific Guides

These guides will appear as both design guides and as documents on fire safety management. The following premises-specific sector guides are now available.

Food processing factories 1: Design principles
This document deals with the design principles for passive fire safety in food factories. It describes measures and makes risk-assessment-based recommendations which, if adopted, will assist in the design and construction of food factories which are better able to withstand the effects of fire if it breaks out. For more information about content and to purchase this document click here. 

Stand-alone Cold Stores: Design principles
This document deals with the design principles for passive fire safety in stand-alone cold stores. It describes measures and makes risk-assessment-based recommendations which, if adopted, will assist in the design and construction of such stores which are better able to withstand the effects of fire if it breaks out. For more information about content and to purchase this document click here. 

Warehouses: Design principles
This document deals with the design principles for passive fire safety in warehouses. It describes measures and makes risk-assessment-based recommendations which, if adopted, will assist in the design and construction of warehouses which are better able to withstand the effects of fire if it breaks out. It also surveys the essential topics of fire safety management in warehouses to help the the designer appreciate the fire hazards which the occupants of warehouses may encounter. For more information about content and to purchase this document click here.

In Preparation

Documents are being prepared on design and fire safety management covering the following premises:-
- schools
- tall buildings
- catering kitchens
- modular buildings. 

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