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The next speaker confirmed at the Workplace Transport and Road Risk Seminar is Nina Day from the HSE who has worked there for 21 years. She is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and DGSA specialising in road and workplace transport. Nina previously worked in HSE’s Science Division carrying out incident investigation, consultancy, and leading a research team looking at various aspects of transport safety including safe loading. She currently works in HSE’s Transport Sector, leading on load security and manual handling in road transport. She works closely with the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, Department for Transport, Highways England, and police forces nationally, and is also involved in a number of industry groups.
Road and workplace transport can be the riskiest work activities of a business, with significant financial, legal, and personal potential consequences if something goes wrong. An effective risk management system can help to prevent things going wrong, protect your workforce, reduce costs, and keep your business running smoothly. Nina will be discussing how to address common issues in transport risk management and what lessons can be learnt from workplace and road accidents.
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The exception to this statement is of course any product that utilises an intumescent material, as this product reacts by expanding when exposed to heat to seal gaps and penetrations therefore re-instating the fire barrier and stopping smoke and flames from passing through.
Whenever a pipe or a cable passes through a compartment wall or the wall is damaged in any way, it will cause disruption to the ability of that wall to maintain its intended fire resistance, therefore differing product are available to ensure the safety of the building can be maintained. The images on the left clearly show where no thought has been given to the fire integrity of the walls and a fire in any of the rooms on show would firstly allow toxic smoke to permeate though out to other parts of the building, but also as the fire grows, gives this an outlet to spread.
The number of products available on the market to reinstate the fire integrity is immense and wide ranging and a service engineer should be employed to ensure you have the correct effective product.
Fire curtains are another PFP system that can be utilised in many formats. In their simplest form they can often be seen within long shopping malls as panes of glass hanging from the ceiling creating smoke reservoirs or sheet fire curtain creating fire zones within loft spaces, but they can also be used as essential parts of fire strategies for larger buildings that cannot employ normal fire safety rules such as the curtain shown in place to contain smoke on this floor and stop it rising up the staircase.
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