Description
Book SynopsisGuidance Note 4: Protection Against Fire is a vital guide to an important safety aspect of working with electricity. It is aimed at everyone involved with fire safety in electrical installations, including consulting engineers, electrical installers, inspectors and technicians and has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018:2022.
BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 incorporates changes from the first amendment, published in 2020, regarding Electric Vehicle Charging Installations to provide greater guidance on embracing changing technology within this sector. Additional changes within the second amendment include protection against thermal effects and fire caused by electrical equipment, protection against voltage disturbances and electromagnetic disturbances, and a new chapter on prosumer's low-voltage electrical installations covering energy efficiency measures, the interface with the smart grid, the management of electricity consumption, the management of renewable sources of electricity, and energy storage.
Table of Contents
- Cooperating organizations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Statutory requirements
- Chapter 2: Overview of the Wiring Regulations
- Chapter 3: Generally applicable requirements
- Chapter 4: Precautions where particular risks of fire exist
- Chapter 5: Protection against burns
- Chapter 6: Measures to minimise the spread of fire
- Chapter 7: Safety services
- Chapter 8: Special installations and locations
- Appendix A: Safety service and product standards of relevance to this Guidance Note
- Appendix B: Technical guidance documents
- Appendix C: Approved Document B Volume 1: Dwellings
- Appendix D: Approved Document B Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings
- Appendix E: Protection of openings and fire-stopping
- Index
