BS 8489-5:2016 PDF

What is this standard about? The BS 8489 series of standards grew out of Drafts for Development (DD) and provides essential guidance to those involved in fire safety. BS 8489-5 is applicable to rooms with machinery such as oil pumps, oil tanks, generators, transformer vaults, gear boxes, drive shafts and lubrication skids, diesel engine driven generators and other similar machinery using fuel and/or lubrication fluids with volatilities less than or equal to diesel (e.g kerosene). It is not applicable to enclosures with equipment using fuel and/or lubrication fluids with volatilities greater than those of diesel. BS 8489-5 is intended to be read in conjunction with BS 8489-1 which looks at the design and installation of watermist systems. Who is this standard for?