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smoke control - fire protection engineeringsmoke control is a complex subject and requires a course of at least one whole week to begin to understand
means of escape from trains - railway inspectionsthe means of escape from trains is also considered in nfpa130
fire safety management on railway stationsstorage tanks are not allowed above underground structures or within
fire evacuation - railway inspectionsfire evacuation signals should be given by voice messages and these must be easily understood by the
railway inspections - fire safety managementrailway premises can be anything from small open air stations to large underground complexes and the fire
limited travel distances - means of escapeare travel distances within the maximum allowable distances published in the guidanceis there good
protected escape routes - fire protection engineeringprotected escape routes does the fire resistance fully enclose the protected routesdo the
alternative escape routesdoes everyone have access to the alternative routes or do some people have no choice about which way they goare all the
means of escape - place of safetythe means of escape in a building are often supplemented by a fire warning system that may or may not include
limiting travel distances - means of escapesome buildings or parts of buildings do not have alternative exits and do not have protected escape routes
providing fire resistantif the building does not provide everyone with alternative exit routes then it may be acceptable for people to pass the fire
providing alternative escape routesthe first thing to check is if everyone can turn away from the fire and move safely away from itfor this to be the
principle of means of escapethe means of escape with which a building is provided are simply the ways out of the building that can be safely used in
industrial buildings inspectionsfire safety within industrial buildings falls largely within the scope of more general precautions and
inspecting a sprinkler systemswhen inspecting a building that has sprinklers fitted it is not easy to check that the correct water pressure and flow
smoke control systemwhere smoke control is installed in a building it is usual for there to also be sprinkler protection to the building and its
sprinkler system - fire protection engineeringsprinkler systems may be installed in a building to achieve a number of different objectives very
inspection checklistthe following checklist is a starting point and it may be added to if subsequent inspections and debriefs indicate that this
fire safety log bookthe occupiers fire safety log book should be checked during an inspection to see that the system is being tested regularly and
fire alarm systemsfire alarm systems can be very complex and it is usually not possible for an enforcing officer to check all the cabling the
fire alarm systemsall buildings require a means by which the warning of fire can be given to all occupants in the
principles of fire alarm systemsfire alarm systems usually perform two primary functions firstly they provide a means for warning people
new building completionnew buildings have to be constructed to meet certain fire safety standards it is not acceptable for buildings to be built
susceptibilitysusceptibility to products of combustion which includes metabolism lung capacity pulmonary disease allergies or other physical
basic characteristics of fire safety managementbasic characteristics - sensibility reactivity mobility and susceptibility - comprise a minimum