Fire safety
The fire safety is the quality of constructed facilities, ensuring that the emergence of the fire and the spread of fire and smoke (fire spread) is prevented and in a fire the rescue of people and animals and effective fire fighting is possible. Fire safety is to be documented in the fire protection certificate for structural systems in accordance with the building regulations of the federal states, as is the stability . Fire safety is the goal of preventive fire protection .
The scope of fire protection measures is determined in building regulations by the protection of public safety or order, in particular life, health and the natural foundations of life.
In industrial construction , the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act must also be taken into account in the form of the resulting ordinances .
history
In Germany, orders from Count Palatine Karl IV. From 1772 also served as fire safety in connection with domestic fireplaces. According to the simultaneous building regulations, no more wooden chimneys were allowed to be erected, no more wooden hoses were allowed to be installed, which had to lead the smoke from the fireplace to the fireplace, just as it was forbidden to lead stovepipes out of the window.
literature
- Gerd Birthig: Structural fire protection in existing buildings. Volume 1, 3rd edition, Beuth Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-410-24434-9 .
- Manfred Lippe: Fire protection. Expert Verlag, Renningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8169-2881-2 .
- G. Linden, Klaus W. Usemann (ed.): Fire protection in building technology. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 978-3-662-11279-3 .
Web links
- Model regulations and decrees of the Conference of Building Ministers
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Limburg-Weilburg 1993, p. 151-153 .
