BS 9999:2008

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
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Provides recommendations and guidance on the design, management and use of buildings to achieve reasonable standards of fire safety for all people in and around buildings.