BS EN 5306 Fire protection installations and equipment on premises

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BS 5306-0:2011 Fire protection installations and equipment on premises. Guide for selection of installed systems and other fire equipment

Size: 4.3 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: BSI | Year: 31 January 2011 | pages: 72 | ISBN: 978 0 580 63241 9

BS 5306-0:2011
Fire protection installations and equipment on premises. Guide for selection of installed systems and other fire equipment

This part of BS 5306 gives guidance on the selection, use and application of automatic water sprinkler, water spray, watermist, gaseous, foam and powder fire-fighting systems and hypoxic air fire-prevention systems. It also gives guidance on installed equipment for fire and rescue service use, and on the application of portable fire extinguishers. It complements the more detailed information given in the specialized parts of this standard and other relevant standards.

The contents of BS 5306-0:2011 includes:

Section 1. General

Scope
Normative references
Terms and definitions
Range of information.

Section 2. Relation to other fire safety measures

Section 3. Fire-fighting media

Water
Gaseous media
Foams
Powders.

Section 4. Effects of fire-fighting media on people, property and the environment

Water
Gaseous media
Foams
Powders.

Section 5. Fixed systems and other fire-fighting equipment

Hydrant systems, hose reels (water) and foam inlets
Automatic water systems
Portable fire extinguishers
Inert gas and halocarbon agent systems
Carbon dioxide systems
Halon systems
Foam systems
Powder systems.

Section 6. Dual use of media and systems

Examples of dual use of media and systems.

Section 7. Control of fixed fire-fighting systems

Water systems
Gaseous systems
Foam systems
Powder systems.

Section 8. Characteristics of fire hazard

Risk assessment
Information and advice.

Section 9. Selecting the system to suit the fire hazard

Effect of system discharge on neighbouring occupancies
Effect of changing occupancies or building redundancy.

Section 10. Installation, inspection and testing of systems and equipment

Installation
Acceptance testing.

Section 11. Servicing and maintenance of systems

Hydrant systems, hose reels and foam inlets
Sprinkler, water spray and watermist systems
Gaseous systems
Foam systems
Powder systems.

Section 12. Responsibility for fire-fighting equipment and systems on premises

This part of BS 5306 supersedes BS 5306-0:1986+A2:1991, which is withdrawn.

This part of BS 5306 does not cover fire-fighting systems for use on ships, in aircraft, on vehicles and mobile fire appliances or for below ground systems in the mining industry.


It also does not cover powdered aerosol extinguishing agents.

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BS 5306-1:2006 Code of practice for fire extinguishing installations and equipment on premises. Hose reels and foam inlets

Size: 158 KB | Format: PDF | Publisher: BSI | Year: 31 May 2006 | pages: 20 | ISBN: 0 580 48282 0

BS 5306-1:2006 covers good practice in matters affecting the design, installation, testing and maintenance of hose reel and foam inlet systems and also gives recommendations for these systems.

This part of BS 5306 now contains only the residual material which deals with hose reels and foam inlets and this has been updated.

N.B. BS 5306-1 does not cover wet and dry fire mains, automatic foam systems and portable fire-fighting equipment. These systems are covered in BS 9990, BS 5306-3, BS 5306-8 and BS EN 3-7. Requirements for the hose reels themselves are specified in BS EN 671.

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