149 lines
10 KiB
XML
Executable File
149 lines
10 KiB
XML
Executable File
<?xml version="1.0"?>
|
|
<cms:item xmlns:cms="http://www.arsdigita.com/cms/1.0" xmlns="http://www.esd.org.uk/standards/esdbody" oid="[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ESDService:{id=814}]"><cms:name>railway-regulations-814</cms:name><cms:language>en</cms:language><cms:title>Fire Safety - Railway Regulations</cms:title><cms:dublinCore oid="[com.arsdigita.london.cms.dublin.DublinCoreItem:{id=814}]"><cms:name>railway-regulations-814-dublin-metadata</cms:name><cms:dcAudience>General Public</cms:dcAudience><cms:dcCoverage>content="99XX" scheme="ONS SNAC"</cms:dcCoverage><cms:dcCoveragePostcode/><cms:dcCoverageSpatialRef/><cms:dcCoverageUnit/><cms:dcDateValid/><cms:dcDisposalReview/><cms:dcLanguage>en</cms:dcLanguage><cms:dcTemporalBegin/><cms:dcTemporalEnd/><cms:dcCreatorOwner>LAWS Project - Starter Kit - http://www.laws-project.org.uk</cms:dcCreatorOwner><cms:dcCreatorContact>LAWS Project - Starter Kit - http://www.laws-project.org.uk</cms:dcCreatorContact><cms:dcPublisher>Tameside MBC - LAWS project - http://laws.tameside.gov.uk</cms:dcPublisher><cms:dcRights/><cms:dcKeywords>fire, safety, railway, regulations</cms:dcKeywords></cms:dublinCore><cms:textAsset oid="[com.arsdigita.cms.TextAsset:{id=814}]"><cms:content><![CDATA[<h2>Fire and Emergency Services</h2><span class="gen">email address here</span><span class="gen">phone number here</span><span class="gen">sms phone number here</span><span class="gen">fax number here</span><span class="gen">minicom number here</span><p><i>All premises that employ persons, with a few exceptions and including offices, shops, railway premises, hotels and factories are subject to the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 as amended by the Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 1999. </i></p><hr/><p>All offices, shops, railway premises, hotels and factories that require a
|
|
Fire Certificate are subject to the Fire Precautions act 1971. Any offices,
|
|
shop, railway premises, or factory requires a Fire Certificate if, more than
|
|
20 persons are employed in the building or more than 10 person employed anywhere
|
|
other than on the ground floor. If you own a hotel or boarding house and provide
|
|
sleeping accommodation for more than six persons, being guests or staff, or
|
|
this sleeping accommodation is above the first floor or below the ground floor
|
|
you require a Fire Certificate. </p><p>All you are required to do, is to apply for a Fire certificate to your local
|
|
fire brigade on form FP1. Until you are issued with a fire certificate you
|
|
are obliged to carry out certain interim duties which are detailed by the fire
|
|
brigade. The building will be eventually inspected and if the fire precautions
|
|
are below a necessary standard, you will be required to be carried out certain
|
|
works before a fire certificate can be issued. </p><p>This has produced a legislative overlap of fire safety requirements and it
|
|
is hoped that this overlap will be resolved in future legislation hopefully
|
|
when the proposed Fire Safety Act is placed on the statute book. </p><p>When a Fire Certificate
|
|
is issued the owner or occupier is required to provide and maintain four
|
|
principle items:</p><ul>
|
|
<li title="*">The
|
|
Means of Escape</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Other
|
|
Means for Securing that the Means of Escape can be safely and effectively
|
|
used at all Material Times</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Means
|
|
of Fighting Fire</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Means
|
|
of Giving Warning in Case of Fire</li>
|
|
</ul><h2> The Means of Escape from
|
|
Fire with which the Premises are Provided</h2><p> A means
|
|
of escape is designed using a code of practice and in the case of existing
|
|
offices it is "Fire Precautions in Offices and Shops" issued by the
|
|
Home Office. In new buildings an approved document is used and all structural
|
|
fire precautions should be resolved at building control stage, before you take
|
|
occupancy. However you may have to provide portable fire extinguishers depending
|
|
on the fire risks you introduce when you take occupancy. Further advice can
|
|
be got from the Fire Brigade usually in the form of "Notes for Guidance" on
|
|
any fire precaution matters. </p><h2>Other Means for Securing
|
|
the Means of Escape</h2><p> Other means for securing the means of escape are for example, the provision
|
|
of emergency lighting. If the premises are used at times, and the mains
|
|
electricity was to fail, escape routes would not become impassable
|
|
due to the darkness.
|
|
Emergency lighting ensures a minimum level of light will always be present
|
|
no matter what circumstances prevail. Another example is the provision
|
|
of fire exit signs to indicate the path to safety. Also other signage
|
|
to ensure
|
|
the means of escape is always clear of obstructions and available. </p><h2>Means of Fighting Fire</h2><p> All premises should be provided with adequate and effective fire fighting
|
|
equipment. It should be able to deal with any small outbreak of fire
|
|
in any part of
|
|
the premises. </p><h2>Means of giving warning in case of Fire </h2><p> This means, maybe giving a warning verbally or the use of a manual gong,
|
|
in a very small premises to a fully blown electrical fire alarm system
|
|
in the
|
|
larger premises. It usually means a break glass fire alarm system with
|
|
or without the means of detecting devices which are required in certain
|
|
circumstances. </p><p>In addition requirements
|
|
may be imposed regarding:</p><ul>
|
|
<li title="*">Maintenance
|
|
of the means of escape</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Training
|
|
of employees and keeping of records</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Occupancy
|
|
numbers</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Precaution relating to fire risk to persons</li>
|
|
</ul><h2> Maintenance of Means of Escape </h2><p> Your means of escape in case of fire has to be maintained and unobstructed.
|
|
All fire doors should be operating correctly and all doors be available when
|
|
the premises are occupied. Other requirement may be enforced such as magnetic
|
|
door catches be released at certain times and checked to see if they are
|
|
working satisfactory. </p><h2>Training and keeping of records </h2><p> You will be required to carry out regular fire training and record the
|
|
results of that training. You will be required to keep records on other
|
|
fire provisions
|
|
like the testing of fire alarms, fire extinguishers and fire alarm equipment. </p><h2>Occupancy Numbers </h2><p> In most cases the means of escape is designed to evacuate all the occupants
|
|
of the premises in the required time. However in a number of rare occasions
|
|
when the means of escape cannot cope with the maximum number of people
|
|
who could occupy the premises, a limit is placed on the premises. The
|
|
occupancy
|
|
number is recorded in the Fire Certificate and it is illegal to exceed
|
|
this number if that is possible. </p><h2>Fire risk to persons</h2><p> If there is any risk considered to be higher that the normal risk to persons
|
|
residing on the premises additional requirements can be included in the
|
|
Fire Certificate. </p><h2> Other Legislation Specifically
|
|
Relevant to Railways:</h2><p>The following legislation may be relevant to a contracting entity preparing
|
|
to seek authorisation for new or upgraded works etc. on the high-speed
|
|
rail network:</p><ul>
|
|
<li title="*">Railways
|
|
and Other Transport Systems (Approvals of Works, Plant and Equipment)
|
|
Regulations 1994 (SI No. 157)</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Health and Safety
|
|
at Work etc. Act 1974</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Principal regulations
|
|
made under this Act with important implications to the railway
|
|
industry include:<br/>
|
|
- the Electricity
|
|
at Work Regulations 1989 (SI No. 635)<br/>
|
|
- the Health and
|
|
Safety (Fees) Regulations 2002 (SI No. 655)<br/>
|
|
- the Management
|
|
of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (SI No. 3242)<br/>
|
|
- the Railways
|
|
(Safety Case) Regulations 2000 (SI No. 2688<br/>
|
|
- the Railways
|
|
(Safety Critical Work) Regulations 1994 (SI No. 299)<br/>
|
|
- the Carriage
|
|
of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1996 (SI No. 2089)<br/>
|
|
- the Railway Safety
|
|
(Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1997
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Construction
|
|
(Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (SI No. 3140)</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Factories Act
|
|
1961</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Fire Precautions
|
|
Act 1971: <br/>
|
|
- Health and
|
|
Safety Fire Certificates (Special Premises) Regulations 1976
|
|
(SI No. 2003) <br/>
|
|
- Fire Precautions
|
|
(Factories, Offices, Shops and Railway Premises) Regulations
|
|
1989 (SI No. 76) <br/>
|
|
- Fire Precautions
|
|
(Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989 (SI No. 1401) </li>
|
|
<li title="*">Building Act
|
|
1984 and Building (Scotland) Act 1959</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Building Regulations
|
|
1991 (SI No. 2768)</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Town and Country
|
|
Planning Act 1957</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Office, Shops
|
|
and Railway Premises Act 1963</li>
|
|
<li title="*">British Transport
|
|
Commission Act 1957</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Level Crossings
|
|
Act 1983</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Regulation of
|
|
Railways Acts 1868, 1873 and 1889</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Railways Regulations
|
|
Acts 1840 and 1842</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Railways Clauses
|
|
Consolidation Act 1845</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Transport and
|
|
Works Act 1992</li>
|
|
<li title="*">Rail Vehicle
|
|
Accessibility Regulations 1998 (SI No. 2457) (note: these Regulations
|
|
were notified by the UK to the European Commission as containing
|
|
a national standard)</li>
|
|
</ul><p>There are a large number of acts and orders covering the construction
|
|
of existing railways. There may be relevant information in any such act
|
|
that relates to any railway that it is intended to modify.</p><span class="gen">email address here</span><span class="gen">phone number here</span><span class="gen">sms phone number here</span><span class="gen">fax number here</span><span class="gen">minicom number here</span><span class="gen">postal address here</span><h3>
|
|
<a href="/ccm/services/pid.jsp?pid=814"> Providing Information
|
|
(814)
|
|
</a></h3>]]></cms:content></cms:textAsset></cms:item>
|