Fire safety according to TR 043/2017 and Federal Law No. 123

During any of the above events, you need to pay attention to:

• Are there emergency exits in the room;

• Fire risk;

• Fire extinguishers;

• Automatic fire safety system;

If all the main points of the Federal Law are met, then you will have no problems either with the fire inspection, or in principle with a fire.

Fire barriers according to 123 Federal Law

There are many of them and they are all different. They are divided according to the methods of fire prevention and complexity: 

• Walls;

• Partitions;

• Gaps or overlaps;

• Curtains, curtains;

• Curtains, water can be.

As you can see, there are really a lot of them and each plays its own role. All these means of protection are also divided into different types of protection. Each defense has its own types:

• Walls - first or second.

• Partitions - first or second.

• Overlaps are the first, second, third or fourth.

• Doors, gates, hatches and the like - the first, second or third.

• Windows - first, second or third.

• Gateways - first or second.

At the same time, fire barriers are distributed depending on the fire resistance limit of the elements.

There are a large number of conditions for them, several will be described here. The most important and first thing is that, in principle, parts of buildings, especially special ones, should be separated by barriers.

You can also tell about elevators. If the house has a height higher than 30 meters, then the elevator shafts must be equipped with a special system.

As for fire barriers (gates and curtains), the fire resistance can be from EI15 to EI180. Since the most commonly used fire resistance in projects is EI 60, the fire resistance of 15,30,45 minutes is blocked by a barrier with a higher fire resistance of 60 minutes.

Changes under the EAEU TR

If you look at our topic, not so much has changed. It is worth learning in more detail what a fire barrier is

A fire barrier is a special barrier, for example, in the form of a wall, which, in the event of a fire, will be able to protect the building / room from the spread of fire.

There are a couple of conditions that must be met:

1. All electrical devices and means that work in the system against fire must maintain electrical and information connectivity with each other and, of course, with other devices.

2. All electrical appliances and means that work in the system against fire must continue to work under conditions of high load t, or vice versa humidity and most importantly - at mech.damage.

3. They must provide maximum protection from fire, which depends on their type to which they are provided.

4. All smoke protection that is in the ventilation must be controlled both automatically and remotely. At the same time, they must be made on the basis of materials that do not burn.

It is also worth adding here that after the TR change, the certification procedure itself has become a little more complicated due to the large number of rules.

The list of things that should definitely be checked has expanded. If there were 30 of them before, then there are more than a hundred.

As for smoke-proof curtains, now instead of E120 there are only curtains with E60 protection. If earlier smoke curtains were made without side rails, now they are mandatory.

Test Rules and Certification 043/2017

There are a lot of points that are being tested for certification. Just for example, it can be: fire extinguishers, protective equipment or other equipment that is designed to protect against fire. The evaluation of all these products takes place in the form of certification (issuance of a certificate that everything is fine) or in the form of a declaration (mostly written about the assessment, for example, of the risk if a fire occurs, or compensation for damage). It all depends on what is being checked.

1. Certification. There are different certification schemes, for example, 1C, 3C, 4C, each goes for a certain type or type of product that is checked. In addition to providing the product itself, you need to collect a fairly extensive list of documents without which you cannot pass the verification.

If you decide to pass certification, you need to submit an application (a legal entity or just an individual entrepreneur can apply, the main thing is to be registered in the EEC). The accredited body is responsible for the verification. If we take the 1C scheme, then they analyze the products and, if everything is good, issue a certificate. All documents, as well as the certificate, must be kept for at least 10 years.

2. Declaration. This includes slightly different products that need to be checked, for example: special cars, stairs, cabinets and the like.

Here they are already divided into 3D, 4D, 6D schemes. As for certification, there is also a need to collect a large number of different documents. The declaration is still a simplified version of obtaining confirmation. As with certification, all documents must be stored for 10 years.

Conducting tests

Fire resistance tests of a fire curtain or gate can be carried out in any accredited laboratory of the Eurasian Economic Union, which has special equipment for this. When firing products, a mandatory video recording of the entire process is conducted. According to the results of the tests, a test report is issued, on the basis of which a state-issued certificate is already issued. Certificates work on the territory of the entire economic union. After receiving, except in writing, the certificate appears in the database of state certification bodies.

Compliance with fire safety rules and the use of proven certified products in a complex of fire-fighting measures will help you avoid problems during the passage of the fire commission and save lives and property in case of a real fire.