ABSTRACT
Chapter 15 covers fi re prevention on construction sites and how to ensure that people are properly protected if fi re does occur. Each year UK fi re and rescue services attend over 41,000 fi res at work in which about 40 people are killed and over 2,500 are injured. Fire and explosions at work account for about 2% of the major injuries reported under Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR 1995). There are over 4,000 construction fi res annually and about 100 of them cause over £50,000 of damage and can result in complete dislocation of project schedules. Some, like the National Westminster Tower fi re, affect large numbers of people. In this case about 600 workers were at risk when the fi re broke out.
