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This British Standard gives guidance to site operators, emergency planners and local authorities on the likely environmental impact of large-scale fires involving significant quantities of stored plastics. This includes:<\/p>\n

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  1. stocks of plastics raw materials stored prior to or during manufacture;<\/li>\n
  2. stocks of fabricated articles stored after manufacture;<\/li>\n
  3. stocks of articles for sale, e.g. in warehouses;<\/li>\n
  4. stocks of articles awaiting recycling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The environmental impact of effluents from incinerators and power stations is not included.<\/p>\n

    Rubber tyres are not within the scope of this standard as they are the subject of separate guidance issued by the Home Office [1].<\/p>\n

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    NOTE 1 Stocks of finished plastics and rubber articles at point of sale (e.g. garden centres) that contain very large quantities of plastics form a further category. This category is different from the four cited in 1a) to 1d) because large numbers of people can often be involved. A major plastics fire in a confined area, such as on a ship, forms yet another category.<\/p>\n

    NOTE 2 Whilst rubbers and rubber products are not covered in this standard, much of the guidance may be applied to them as well as to plastics. There are many similarities in chemical composition between thermoplastic elastomers and more rigid thermoplastics and the fire effluents from the two families of products are similar. Much of the guidance issued by the Home Office [1] for the storage of rubber tyres may be used as a example of how to manage large stocks of plastic products.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    1<\/td>\nBRITISH STANDARD <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2<\/td>\nCommittees responsible for this British Standard <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    3<\/td>\nContents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    5<\/td>\nIntroduction
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    6<\/td>\n3 Terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviations
    additive
    asphyxiant gas
    environment
    environmental impact
    establishment
    \u201cexotic\u201d organic compounds
    filler
    fire effluent
    foamed plastic <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    7<\/td>\nhazard
    installation
    irritant
    major accident
    MEL
    operator
    OES
    plastic
    PM
    pyrolysis <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    8<\/td>\nrisk
    storage
    thermoplastic,
    thermoset plastic
    LC
    dioxins\/furans
    4 Plastics and fire <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    9<\/td>\n5 Overview of relevant legislation and guidance documents
    6 Introduction to fires
    6.1 Classification of fires according to BS\ufffdEN\ufffd2:1992
    6.2 Flammability principles
    6.3 Possible environmental impacts <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    10<\/td>\nFires in the open <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    11<\/td>\nFires in the open <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    12<\/td>\nFires in enclosures
    6.4 Fire development in enclosures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    13<\/td>\nThe various phases of a fire
    Time-scales of events during the various phases of a fire <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    14<\/td>\n6.5 Fire hazards of materials
    7 Decomposition products from burning plastics <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    15<\/td>\nTypes of plastics and their decomposition products <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    16<\/td>\nTypes of plastics and their decomposition products <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    17<\/td>\nAdditives in plastics compounds
    8 Potential environmental impact of fires
    8.1 General
    8.2 Impact zones <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    18<\/td>\n8.3 Release pathways and affected receptors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    20<\/td>\n8.4 Effects of short-term exposure <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    21<\/td>\nPossible short-term exposure effects
    Acute toxic potency values for asphyxiant gases <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    22<\/td>\nAcute toxic potency values and short-term exposure limits for some irritant gases <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    23<\/td>\nSummary of toxic and irritant impacts on freshwater\/marine species <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    24<\/td>\n8.5 Impacts from long-term exposures
    Possible long-term exposure effects of plastics fire emissions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    25<\/td>\nSummary impacts of general pollutants on crops <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    27<\/td>\nSummary of the key toxins, carcinogens and \u201cexotic\u201d organic compounds monitored during the Ontari… <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    28<\/td>\nSummary of the impacts of toxins, carcinogens and \u201cexotic\u201d organics on freshwater\/marine habitats…
    9 Experience of large-scale fires involving plastics
    9.1 Locations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    29<\/td>\n9.2 Examples <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    32<\/td>\n10 Mitigation measures
    10.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    33<\/td>\n10.2 Ignition scenarios
    10.3 Storage technique <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    34<\/td>\n10.4 Training
    10.5 Assessing the risks
    10.6 Mitigation measures during and following a fire <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    35<\/td>\nSummary of key impacts and mitigation measures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    36<\/td>\n(informative) Overview of relevant regulations and guidance documents
    (informative) Overview of relevant regulations and guidance documents
    The Fire Precautions Act 1971
    The Building Regulations 1991
    Health and Safety at Work <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    37<\/td>\nSeveso II Directive
    DETR guidance on Seveso II Directive
    HSE guidance documents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    38<\/td>\nOther guidance documents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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