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BS9999 Fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings – Code of practice
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David Bannister  
#1 Posted : 21 April 2016 15:38:20(UTC)
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David Bannister
Having just become very bored reading the draft standard, I have concluded that some people have too much time on their hands producing this type of overblown document. I am very glad that by the time it gets to be an accepted BS I will not care one way or the other - I will be either happily retired or pushing up daisies!
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walker  
#2 Posted : 21 April 2016 15:56:41(UTC)
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walker
Maybe we ought to start a branch for "elderly" cynics ;-))
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peterL  
#3 Posted : 21 April 2016 16:08:43(UTC)
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peterL
You don't have to be elderly to be a cynic, safety nowadays seems to be littered with competency schemes, certifications for visually checking of basic safety measures (fire doors for example) and bodies (quango's) who claim to ensure the competency levels of the professionals who subscribe to their logic - all out to take your money, in my opinion, and not to enhance our (the H&S) profession's overall safety provision and delivery, rant over. Pete
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David Bannister  
#4 Posted : 21 April 2016 16:17:32(UTC)
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David Bannister
walker wrote:
Maybe we ought to start a branch for "elderly" cynics ;-))
I thought this was it.
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chas  
#5 Posted : 21 April 2016 16:20:55(UTC)
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chas
I thought the BS had already been adopted and is no longer a draft. Maybe I'm wrong can someone with a copy confirm?
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jay  
#6 Posted : 21 April 2016 16:21:55(UTC)
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jay
The forward to the draft informs that:- This British Standard supersedes BS 9999:2008, which is withdrawn. There already is a BS 9999:2008! Also, BS 9999:2008 superseded the following publications, which will were withdrawn on 6 April 2009: • BS 5588-0:1996; • BS 5588-5:2004; • BS 5588-6:1991; • BS 5588-7:1997; • BS 5588-8:1999; • BS 5588-9:1999; • BS 5588-10:1991; • BS 5588-11:1997; • BS 5588-12:2004; • DD 9999:2005. BS 5588-1 is not being superseded by BS 9999 but is expected to be revised in due course and issued with a new identifier. Agreed that it is a huge document--the 2008 version has 459 Pages, but it probably is the standard that has all the information etc required
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Invictus  
#7 Posted : 22 April 2016 07:23:11(UTC)
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Invictus
It is a standard 2008. It is overblown but does set out a lot of good practices, it is not a retrospective document but I always add on reports that something is not to the 9999 standard. It's not something that I would read but somethiong to dip in and out of as the need arises.
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