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FIRE SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION

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FIRE SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION

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    1. FIRE SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION Phil Burgess Construction Sector

    2. LEGISLATION Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order The Fire (Scotland) Act Used to be Construction (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1996. NOW - CDM from April 2007

    3. The Construction Industry Mobile workforce moving from site to site, company to company Site changes on a daily basis

    4. Risk high risk – expect much more to control Same with fire

    5. Timber Frame Construction

    6. Multi-storey

    7. HSE’s ROLE GENERAL FIRE PRECAUTIONS Versus PROCESS

    8. PROCESS FIRE PRECAUTIONS Special technical or organisational measures to reduce likelihood of fire and intensity due to work process OR Planning and working to prevent the risk of a fire starting

    9. Pre Construction Should be considered before work starts Look at the process of construction and general fire precaution listed below Should be site specific and appropriate for the size of contract

    10. Designers can contribute to the elimination of health and safety hazards in construction, from the earliest stages of a project. elements of design that differ from what site staff perceive as the “norm” such as fire engineering needs to be considered for construction phase.

    11. Peckham

    13. Combustible Materials Remember building and structural elements combustible Size of timber sections

    14. Build up of Combustible Material

    15. Combustible material

    16. IGNITION SOURCES

    17. Fuel tank surrounded by rubbish

    19. GENERAL FIRE PRECAUTIONS

    20. Alarms

    21. Why worry?

    23. Means of Escape

    24. Not good in the event of a fire

    25. Partial Occupation

    26. Competence How many people in country are qualified to produce suitable and sufficient risk assessment High risk or complex buildings Skill, knowledge and training (Theoretical and practical) Institution of Fire Engineers; Register of Fire risk Assessors and Auditors

    27. Fire in Construction Thank You

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