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Textile fire legislation, regulations
and test methods – an overview
Prof Dick Horrocks University of Bolton
COST Workshop 14/15 October 2013
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The overview:
• Statistics and fires
• Legislation vs regulation
• National vs international regulations
• Test methodologies
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Statistics-1
• UK Fire statistics
• Other national statistics
• EU and World Statistics
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Statistics-2
• UK Fire statistics
– UK Home Office: Most comprehensive produced from
fire brigade data
– UK Hospital Admission Stats: less comprehensive
• Other national statistics
– Where they exist, they are not very comprehensive
– Often regional/provincial
• EU and World Statistics
– EU don’t exist and World stats are not reliable
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Annual UK Fire Statistics <1990
• About 1/2 million fires
• About 700 fatalities
• Typically 70,000 dwelling fires
• About 15000 non-fatalities
• Typically 55,000 accidental dwelling fires
• ~20% fires caused by textiles BUT
• 500-600 fatalities in dwellings of which
>50% textiles
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UK Fire Statistics 1990-2007
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0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
1990 1995 2000 2005
Fatalities
Year
Total dwelling fires
Textile total
Furnishings
Clothing
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UK Bedding Fire Statistics
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0
100
200
300
400
500
600
1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007
Fatalities
Year
All textiles
Bedding
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UK HASS Clothing Stats 1
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Dressing Gowns
22%
Pyjamas 21%
Nightdresses 47%
Others 10%
% fatalities by garment type
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UK HASS Clothing Stats 2
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<11 25%
12 to 21 26%
21 to 65 8%
>65 41%
% fatalities by age
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Significant UK/Ireland Textile-related Fires, 1979-1985
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Fire Cause Consequences
Woolworths Store
Fire, Manchester, 8
May 1979
PP upholstered
furnishings/match or
cigarette.
10 fatalities
53 non-fatal
casualties
Stardust Disco Fire,
Dublin, 14 February,
1981
Ignition of PVC-
covered, foam-filled
furnishings
48 fatalities
128 non-
fatalities
Boeing 737 Fire,
Manchester Airport,
22 August 1985
Fuel fire igniting
internal
55 fatalities
15 serious non-
fatalities
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• Statistics and fires
• Legislation vs regulation
• National vs international regulations
• Test methodologies
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Legislation vs regulation
• Legislation may have direct or indirect reference
to regulations:
– The Nightdress (Safety) Regulation, S. I. 839:1967
and The Nightwear (Safety) Regulations S.I.
2043:1985
– Consumer Protection Act (1987), the Furniture and
Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations, 1988, SI1324
(1988)
– Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974
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BS 5722/BS5438: Vertical strip method – burning rate:
embedded in legislation
BS 5852 Part 1; cigarette and match ignition: embedded in
legislation
Need for PPE is the responsibility of employers
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• Statistics and fires
• Legislation vs regulation
• National vs international regulations
• Test methodologies
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Regulation and standard hierarchy
• National regulations/standards eg BS, DIN,
ASTM, NF, etc;
• International regulations/standards: – ISO offers (voluntary) standards not related to regulation
– EU offers regulations and EN standards that may be mandatory
or voluntary
• Since 1990s: normalisation
• EU directives translate into national regs/stds)
• International (transport) organisations – Maritime: International Marine Organisation (IMO)
– Aviation: International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO)
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Regulation and standard hierarchy
• National regulations/standards eg BS, DIN,
ASTM, NF, etc;
• International regulations/standards: – ISO offers (voluntary) standards not related to regulation
– EU offers regulations and EN standards that may be mandatory
or voluntary
• Since 1990s: normalisation
• EU directives translate into national regs/stds)
• International (transport) organisations – Maritime: International Marine Organisation (IMO)
– Aviation: International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO)
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Eg: EU Rail Directive
(2008): BS EN 45545 :
Pt 2:2010 defines
materials including
textile requirements
Eg: EU standard
for nightwear
under General
Product Safety
Directive (2001):
EN 14878:2007
{surface flash
and burn rate
criteria}
Eg: all EU national PPE
stds now fall within the
EU under the PPE
Directive (1989) to
yield specific
mandatory standards
for workplace clothing
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Textile test typography
• Simple fabric strip tests
• Textile composite tests
• Tests undertaken with the addition of radiant
heat (including reaction to fire tests)
• Thermal protection (including protective clothing
and manikin tests)
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1. Simple fabric strip tests
• Majority are simple strip burning tests: 0, 30, 45 and 90o
• Parameters determined:
– Ease of ignition/extinction
– Burning rate
– Damaged length
– Hole length
– Burning debris
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1. Simple fabric strip tests
• Majority are simple strip burning tests: 0, 30, 45 and 90o
• Parameters determined:
– Ease of ignition/extinction
– Burning rate
– Damaged length
– Hole length
– Burning debris
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BS 5438 Test 2
BS EN ISO15025
BS 5438:Part 3BS
EN ISO 6941
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1. Simple fabric strip tests
• Majority are simple strip burning tests: 0, 30, 45 and 90o
• Parameters determined:
– Ease of ignition/extinction
– Burning rate
– Damaged length
– Hole length
– Burning debris
• May be a part of a performance standard which
defines method of test and prior cleansing
requirement
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Eg: BS EN ISO 14116:2008 ;
Protective clothing to limited
flame spread uses BS EN ISO
15025
BS 5722 (cited in the UK
sleepwear legislation) uses BS
5438 Test 3; for FR-treated
fabrics, samples must be
washed according to BS 5651
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2. Textile composite tests
• These may be a small-scale model/mock-up of a real textile
product/assembly eg BS 5852 Part 1 (embedded in the UK
Furnishing Regs) and BS 5852 Part 2:1979 (since revised) for
contract furnishings [BS EN 1021 Parts 1 and 2 are EU equivalents]
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Position of
Cigarette or
Simulated match
Fabric-
covered 22 kg
m-3
foam or
filling (450 x
300 x 75 mm)
Fabric-covered 22 kg
m-3
foam or filling
(450 x 150x 75 mm)
Note: Supporting metal frame
has been omitted for clarity
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2. Textile composite tests
• These may be a small-scale model/mock-up of a real textile
product/assembly eg BS 5852 Part 1 (embedded in the UK
Furnishing Regs) and BS 5852 Part 2:1979 (since revised) for
contract furnishings [BS EN 1021 Parts 1 and 2 are EU equivalents]
• Standards offering advice using these tests also exist
in the UK: BS 7176 for contract furnishings and BS 7177
for bedding for various hazard levels:
– Low (Sources 0 and 1) eg schools, museums, etc
– Medium (Sources 0, 1 and 5) eg hotel bedrooms, public
buildings
– High (Sources 0, 1, 7) eg hospitals, hostels, off-shore
– Very high (Sources 0, 1, 7) eg prisons
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3. Tests undertaken with the addition of radiant
heat (including reaction to fire tests)
• Many FR textiles become flammable when heated >25
kW/m2: some test regimes need to model this condition.
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3. Tests undertaken with the addition of radiant
heat (including reaction to fire tests)
• Many FR textiles become flammable when heated >25
kW/m2: some test regimes need to model this condition.
• In some tests, the sample is heated under a radiant
panel at an angle ~30o.
– BS EN ISO 9239-1:2010 for carpets
– BS 476-7:1997 for textiles attached to walls
– The French ‘Epiradiateur’ or ‘M’ test NF P 92-503 for textiles in
buildings
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Test specimen
Cylindrical radiant heater
Air flow
Small burner
Fibre cement board at 30o to horizontal
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3. Tests undertaken with the addition of radiant
heat (including reaction to fire tests)
• Many FR textiles become flammable when heated >25
kW/m2: some test regimes need to model this condition.
• In some tests, the sample is heated under a radiant
panel at an angle ~30o.
– BS EN ISO 9239-1:2010 for carpets
– BS 476-7:1997 for textiles attached to walls
– The French ‘Epiradiateur’ or ‘M’ test NF P 92-503 for textiles in
buildings
• Simulated fire conditions requires complex and
expensive equipment
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Fire simulation examples
25
150x150 mm
vertical
fabric
sample
35 kW
m-2 heat
flux
OSU calorimeter FAR 25.853 Part 4 Appendix F
Instrumented manikin: ASTM F 1930 and BS EN ISO 469:2005 Annex E (method BS ISO 13506
84 kw/m2
for 8s
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4. Thermal protection (including protective
clothing and manikin tests): examples
• BS EN 469:2005 - Protective Clothing for Fire-fighters -
Performance requirements for protective clothing for fire-fighting.
• BS EN IS0 11611:2007 - Protective Clothing for Welders.
Includes requirements for a weld droplet test and flammability
behaviour plus detailed design criteria.
• BS EN ISO 11612:2008 - Protective Clothing - Clothing to
protect against heat and flame. Complex performance specification
defining several performance levels to a variety of heat sources
including molten metal splash protection plus design criteria for
garments and seams.
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THANK YOU FOR NOT
FALLING ASLEEP!
Testing can be a very
testing experience!
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