Fire protection system
The Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB part of BRE Global) sets the standards needed to ensure that fire and security products and services perform effectively. LPCB’s Loss Prevention Standards (LPS) are applied in fire and security sectors around the world.
Loss Prevention Standard LPS 1107: Issue 1.2, Requirements, tests and methods of assessment of passive fire protection systems for structural steelwork, Published by BRE Global Ltd in 2014, states : ‘For the purposes of this document, the term "fire protection system" refers to the product and the method of fixing or retaining the product around the structural steel element.’
See also: Fire protection.
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