Fire prevention
Fire prevention includes a range of activities that are intended to prevent the outbreak of fires or to limit the consequences. It is a multidisciplinary approach including identification, promotion and drafting of measures and implementing rules and procedures. Prevention activities include:
- those related to industrial fire and explosion hazards, great disastrous events requiring inspection activities, post-accident on-site inspections, fire fighting technical assistance when designing electro power plants, power lines, etc.;
- developing fire prevention standards both for civil, commercial, handicraft and industrial facilities and for nuclear sector;
- fire protection research study involving qualification testing, certification delivery, homologation service, technical approvals, advisory activity and analytical evaluations, standard testing development, product evaluation and classification;
- passive protection activity involving study research in the following sectors: fire resistance and reaction to fire, fire evacuation systems and phenomenology of fire (e.g. reaction to fire testing is a key element to evaluate the contribution of a material to fire growth.);
- active fire protection involving study research on active fire protection systems and devices.
