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PD 6516:1987

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Guide to guarding fires and heating appliances
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

28-08-1987

Publisher

British Standards Institution

Foreword
Committees responsible
Guide
1. Scope
2. Legislation
3. Types and purposes of guards
4. Safety in use
5. Design features
6. Limitations

Information concerned with effective and safe guarding against burning or ignition hazards.

This Published Document provides guidance and information concerned with the effective and safe guarding of fires and heating appliances.

The document considers only the burning or ignition hazards associated with high temperatures or free flames of fires and heating appliances. It does not consider protection against electric shock, the requirements for which are now incorporated into the appropriate product standards and in legislation concerning electrical safety.

NOTE The titles of the publications referred to in this Published Document are listed on the inside back cover.

Committee
CW/1
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 86/40234 DC. (08/2005) Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, October 2012. (09/2012)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
10
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

BS 5871-2:2005 Specification for the installation and maintenance of gas fires, convector heaters, fire/back boilers and decorative fuel effect gas appliances Inset live fuel effect gas fires of heat input not exceeding 15 kW, and fire/back boilers (2nd and 3rd family gases)
BS 5871-3:2005 Specification for the installation and maintenance of gas fires, convector heaters, fire/back boilers and decorative fuel effect gas appliances Decorative fuel effect gas appliances of heat input not exceeding 20 kW (2nd and 3rd family gases)
BS 5871-1:2005 Specification for the installation and maintenance of gas fires, convector heaters, fire/back boilers and decorative fuel effect gas appliances Gas fires, convector heaters, fire/back boilers and heating stoves (2nd and 3rd family gases)
BS 5871-4:2007 Specification for the installation and maintenance of gas fires, convector heaters, fire/back boilers and decorative fuel effect gas appliances Independent gas-fired flueless fires, convector heaters and heating stoves of nominal heat input not exceeding 6 kW (2nd and 3rd family gases)

BS 1945:1971 Specification for fireguards for heating appliances (gas, electric and oil-burning)
BS 6539:1984 Specification for fireguards for use with solid fuel appliances
BS 6778:1986 Specification for fireguards for use with portable, free-standing or wall-mounted heating appliances

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