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    BS 9999 - FIRE SAFETY IN THE DESIGN, MANAGEMENT AND USE OF BUILDINGS - CODE OF PRACTICE

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    Superseded date:  31-01-2017

    Language(s):  English

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    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Foreword
    Section 1: General
    0 Introduction
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 General recommendations and background
    Section 2: Risk profiles and assessing risk
    5 Assessing risk
    6 Risk profiles
    Section 3: Ensuring effective fire protection
    7 Ensuring effective fire protection
    Section 4: Designing for the management of fire safety
    8 Establishing fire risk management systems
    9 Fire safety documentation
    10 Designing so that a building can be managed
    Section 5: Designing means of escape
    11 Principles of means of escape
    12 Evacuation strategy
    13 Internal subdivision and spatial/visual orientation
    14 Designing means of escape
    15 Minimum package of fire protection
    16 Horizontal means of escape
    17 Vertical means of escape
    18 Additional fire protection measures
    Section 6: Access and facilities for fire-fighting
    19 General recommendations for fire-fighting facilities
    20 Facilities for fire-fighting
    21 Vehicle access
    22 Water supplies for fire and rescue service use
    23 Communications systems for fire and rescue
       service use
    24 Fire control centre
    25 Fire-fighters emergency switches for discharge
        lighting installation
    26 Drawings for fire and rescue service use
    27 Heat and smoke control
    28 Electrical services
    Section 7: Designing the building structure
               (load-bearing and non-load-bearing
               elements)
    29 Designing the building structure General
    30 Fire resistance
    31 Compartmentation
    32 Openings
    33 Concealed spaces
    34 Materials and finishes
    35 External fire spread and building separation
    36 Accommodation ancillary to the main use of the
       building
    37 Engineering services
    Section 8: Special risk protection
    38 Special risk protection
    Section 9: Managing occupied buildings
    39 Commissioning and hand-over
    40 Managing occupied buildings
    41 Fire prevention
    42 Ensuring that systems respond properly in an
       emergency
    43 Planning the response to a fire
    44 Emergency actions
    45 Evacuation of disabled people
    46 Management of fire safety prior to full occupation
       of a building
    47 Building works, alterations, decommissioning
       and demolition
    Annexes
    Annex A (normative) - Additional recommendations for
            property protection and business continuity
    Annex B (normative) - Recommendations for atria
    Annex C (informative) - Design solutions and exemplars
            for atria
    Annex D (normative) - Recommendations for theatres,
            cinemas and similar venues
    Annex E (normative) - Recommendations for shopping complexes
    Annex F (normative) - Process plant and outdoor structures
    Annex G (normative) - Recommendations for refuges and
            evacuation lifts
    Annex H (normative) - Fire safety manual
    Annex I (normative) - Fire control centre and evacuation
            management
    Annex J (informative) - Fire safety equipment, facilities
            and systems
    Annex K (informative) - Signs and signage
    Annex L (informative) - Typical arrangements to keep
            fire-fighting lift wells free from water
    Annex M (normative) - Operational information
             (emergency packs) for the fire and rescue service
    Annex N (normative) - Commissioning and hand-over of
            smoke control systems
    Annex O (normative) - Fire safety training
    Annex P (normative) - Control of conditions in public areas
    Annex Q (normative) - Recommendations for owners of
            multi-occupancy residential buildings
    Annex R (informative) - Advice to occupiers of dwellings
            in residential buildings
    Annex S (informative) - Examples of fire instruction notice text
    Annex T (normative) - Audience/crowd control
    Annex U (normative) -Hot work
    Annex V (normative) - Routine inspection and maintenance
            of fire safety installations
    Annex W (normative) - Routine inspection and maintenance
            of ventilation and air conditioning ductwork
    Annex X (normative) - Phased evacuation
    Annex Y (informative) - Examples of evacuation strategies
    Annex Z (informative) - Methods of smoke ventilation
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    Comment Closes On
    Committee FSH/14
    Document Type Draft
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

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