My Company is considering storing large quantities of "party Poppers" Anyone got any information about the legalities of storing these products - can they be stored in a warehouse do they have to be stored in secure units externally ??? Any information would be appreciated. Steve w

I beleive there is some kind of license required to store these. It may be worth you contacting the hse to get some definitive info.

From experience, I'd avoid letting anyone over the age of 70 anywhere near them - my grandparents were always lethal when thay had a party popper in their hand ;-) Flipancy aside, I'd agree with the previous comments regarding fireworks and Explosive Regs?

There are thresholds that are laid out and if you store above a certain amount of explosives (I used to work for an organisation that sold shotgun cartridges) then you need to licence the site, ours were registered with the LA where the outlet was based. From memory the amount of cartridges was quite substantial, which was also mentioned in the FRA for each site. Storage had to have at least 60 min's fire resistance (again from memory - so this may be incorrect?). You will need to find out how much explosive is in each PP and then multiply that up by the number of PP's that you want to store to give you your total amount of explosive materials. HTH a little. cheers Stu