BS 9999:2008
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Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings
Hardcopy , PDF
28-02-2017
English
31-10-2008
Foreword
Section 1: General
0 Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General recommendations and background
4.1 Spread of fire and smoke
4.2 Variation of guidance
4.3 Property and business continuity protection
4.4 Environment
4.5 Additional recommendations for specific building
types/occupancies
4.6 Inclusive design
Section 2: Risk profiles and assessing risk
5 Assessing risk
6 Risk profiles
6.1 General
6.2 Occupancy characteristic
6.3 Fire growth rate
6.4 Creating the risk profile
6.5 Variation of risk profile
Section 3: Ensuring effective fire protection
7 Ensuring effective fire protection
7.1 General
7.2 The design stage
7.3 The construction stage
7.4 The maintenance stage
Section 4: Managing fire safety
8 Establishing management levels
8.1 Management of the fire safety strategy
8.2 Management levels
8.3 Assessing the management levels
9 Fire safety manual
10 Designing so that a building can be managed
10.1 General
10.2 Management input
10.3 Designing for the management of fire prevention
10.4 Designing for the management of fire protection
Section 5: Designing means of escape
11 Principles of means of escape
12 Evacuation strategy
12.1 General
12.2 Categories of evacuation procedure
12.3 Total evacuation
12.4 Progressive evacuation
13 Internal subdivision and spatial/visual orientation
13.1 General
13.2 Compartments
13.3 Cellular planning
13.4 Open storey (horizontal)planning
13.5 Atria
13.6 High fire risk areas
13.7 Process plant and outdoor structures
14 Designing means of escape
14.1 General
14.2 Acceptable means of escape
14.3 Generally unacceptable means of escape
15 Allocation of risk profile
15.1 General
15.2 Enclosure of fire risks
16 Minimum package of fire protection
16.1 General
16.2 Fire detection and alarm systems
16.3 Artificial and emergency escape lighting
16.4 Exit signs
16.5 Doors
16.6 Protected power circuits
16.7 Lifts
16.8 Mechanical ventilation and air conditioning systems
16.9 Refuse chutes and storage
17 Horizontal means of escape
17.1 General
17.2 Number of occupants
17.3 Layout and number of escape routes and exits
17.4 Travel distance
17.5 Cellular plan floors
17.6 Width of doors, corridors and escape routes
17.7 Methods of horizontal escape for disabled people
18 Vertical means of escape
18.1 General
18.2 Design of escape stairs
18.3 Number of escape stairs
18.4 Width of escape stairs
18.5 Basement stairs
18.6 Protected stairs
18.7 External escape stairs
18.8 Methods of vertical escape for disabled people
19 Additional fire protection measures
19.1 General
19.2 Automatic detection and informative warning systems
19.3 Effect of ceiling heights
19.4 Maximum acceptable variations
Section 6: Access and facilities for fire-fighting
20 General recommendations for fire-fighting facilities
21 Facilities for fire-fighting
21.1 General
21.2 Fire-fighting shafts
21.3 Fire-fighting stairs and lifts
22 Vehicle access
22.1 General
22.2 Buildings not fitted with fire mains
22.3 Access for high-reach appliances
22.4 Buildings fitted with fire mains
23 Water supplies for fire and rescue service use
23.1 Fire mains
23.2 Location and access to external water supply
24 Communications systems for fire and rescue service use
25 Fire control centre
26 Fire-fighters' emergency switches for discharge lighting
installation
27 Drawings for fire and rescue service use
28 Heat and smoke control
28.1 General
28.2 Smoke control for fire-fighting shafts
28.3 Venting of smoke and heat from basements
28.4 Venting of smoke and heat from car parks
28.5 Smoke and heat ventilation from loading docks and
covered service roadways
29 Electrical services
Section 7: Designing the building structure (load-bearing and
non-load-bearing elements)
30 Designing the building structure - General
31 Fire resistance
31.1 Elements of structure
31.2 Minimum levels of fire resistance
31.3 Glazed fire-resisting elements
32 Compartmentation
32.1 General
32.2 Fire resistance of compartments
32.3 Size of compartments
32.4 Provision of compartmentation
32.5 Construction of compartment walls and compartment
floors
33 Openings
33.1 Fire doors
33.2 Shutter assemblies
33.3 Access panels
33.4 Service ducts, pipes and shafts
33.5 Fire-stopping
34 Concealed spaces
34.1 General
34.2 Provision of cavity barriers
34.3 Extensive cavities
34.4 Construction and fixings for cavity barriers
35 Materials and finishes
35.1 Classification and use of internal wall and ceiling
linings
35.2 Special roof coverings
35.3 Insulating core panels
36 External fire spread between neighbouring buildings
36.1 General
36.2 Boundaries
36.3 Unprotected area
36.4 Degree of separation
36.5 Roofs
36.6 External fire spread over the external faces of
buildings
37 Accommodation ancillary to the main use of the building
37.1 Engineering services installation rooms
37.2 Waste storage and treatment
37.3 Main storage areas (including receiving and
dispatch areas)
38 Engineering services
38.1 Gas services
38.2 Electrical services
38.3 Enclosure of engineering services
38.4 Lighting
38.5 Heating systems
38.6 Lifts, escalators, moving walks and goods conveyors
38.7 Incinerators
Section 8: Special risk protection
39 Special risk protection
Section 9: Managing occupied buildings
40 Commissioning and hand-over
40.1 Management issues
40.2 Approvals and certification
41 Managing occupied buildings
41.1 Appointment of fire safety manager and other personnel
41.2 Management organization and structure
41.3 Overview of the fire safety manager's responsibilities
41.4 Buildings occupied by more than one organization
41.5 Public areas
41.6 Tenants, concessionaires and residents
41.7 Caretakers
41.8 Continuing control and audit procedures
41.9 Communications
42 Fire prevention
42.1 General
42.2 Housekeeping
42.3 Audience/crowd control
42.4 Arson
42.5 Conflicts between security and means of escape
42.6 Contractors and subcontractors on the premises and hot
work
42.7 Maintenance of building plant and equipment
43 Ensuring that systems respond properly in an emergency
43.1 General
43.2 Escape routes
43.3 Maintenance of fire safety equipment and provisions
44 Planning the response to a fire
44.1 General
44.2 The fire routine
44.3 Provision for people at particular risk
44.4 Fire control centre functions
44.5 Evacuation management
44.6 Test evacuations (fire drills)
44.7 False alarms
44.8 Contingency planning for business interruption
44.9 Protection of building structure, contents, and the
environment
44.10 Salvage and damage control
45 Emergency actions
45.1 General
45.2 Action on discovery
45.3 Warning and evacuation signals
45.4 Calling the fire and rescue service
45.5 Evacuation procedures
45.6 Fighting the fire
45.7 Receiving the fire and rescue service
45.8 Completion of evacuation
45.9 Re-entry to the building
45.10 After the incident
46 Evacuation of disabled people
46.1 General
46.2 Mobility-impaired people
46.3 Wheelchair users
46.4 People who are deaf and hard of hearing
46.5 Blind and partially sighted people
46.6 People with cognitive disabilities
46.7 Use of personal emergency evacuation plans
46.8 Use of refuges
46.9 Evacuation using lifts
46.10 Evacuation using stairways
46.11 Test evacuations for people requiring assistance
46.12 Fire instructions and training
47 Management of fire safety prior to full occupation of a
building
48 Building works, alterations, decommissioning and
demolition
48.1 General
48.2 Hot work
48.3 Change of use of buildings
48.4 Units in disuse and areas decommissioned
Annexes
Annex A (normative) - Additional considerations for property
and business continuity protection
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 notices
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) - Example messages for use in a phased
evacuation
Bibliography
Index
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