Fire Safety
4 sources in the library on fire safety, 4 on this page cited in a published note. Each one says what the document covers and what it is good for. Name a source to see which document it is and where to read it. One at a time.
- very strong RN-TPZR4S cited
The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Article 17(1): where necessary to safeguard the safety of relevant persons, the responsible person must ensure the premises and any facilities, equipment and devices provided under this Order or any other enactment are subject to a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair. 17(2) to 17(5) let occupiers of different premises in one building make joint maintenance arrangements and require co-operation, including the owner where the occupier is not the owner. 17(6) limits the extension to other enactments to provisions concerned with fire safety measures. This is the article breached when fire equipment is left unserviced.
Cited in Fire Curtain Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
- very strong RN-9LSCF5 cited
The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Article 6 sets what the Order does and does not reach. It does not apply to domestic premises except as provided by article 31(10). Where a building contains two or more sets of domestic premises the Order applies to the building's structure and external walls and any common parts, to all doors between the domestic premises and common parts, and external walls are defined to include doors or windows in those walls and anything attached to the exterior including balconies. That extension was inserted by the Fire Safety Act 2021, in force 1 October 2021 in Wales and 16 May 2022 in England. Use this to say precisely how far fire safety duties reach into a block of flats.
Cited in Fire Curtain Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
- strong RN-FKQ4EZ cited
BSI
BSI Knowledge product page for BS EN 12101-1:2005+A1:2006, published 15 March 2006, status Current (Under Review). This is the product standard for smoke barriers, that is smoke curtains, and it is the reason a smoke curtain is not classified on the EI fire resistance scale at all: it is specified against BS EN 12101-1, while a fire curtain is classified to BS EN 13501-2. Useful for correcting notes that give a smoke curtain an invented fire rating. The classification designations themselves are behind the paywall. A 2020 revision (BS EN 12101-1:2020) exists as a standards development project but the 2006 edition is the one BSI lists as current.
Cited in Fire Curtain Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
- strong RN-2CKKKU cited
BSI
BSI Knowledge product page for BS EN 13501-2:2023, published 30 June 2023, status Current (Under Review). This is the fire resistance classification standard behind every E, EI and EW rating quoted for fire doors, fire curtains, glazed screens and compartment elements in the UK. It supersedes BS EN 13501-2:2016. The page carries the number, title, publication date, status, committee and ICS descriptors; the classification letters and the minute periods themselves sit behind the paywall and are not readable on the page. Useful for pinning the current edition when a note cites 13501-2 with no year.
Cited in Fire Curtain Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.