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§ 3 Definitions

Definitions as mentioned in Section 6 of the Framework Regulations apply correspondingly for these regulations.
The following definitions apply for these regulations:

Land-use plan:
Overview showing planned placement location of equipment and installations, access routes, internal traffic patterns and enclosures.

Area restriction:
A certain delineated area with specified use restrictions surrounding equipment and installations.

Fire area:
Area, building or room that is separated from other areas by a fire division, such that the likelihood of spread in the event of a design fire load is reduced.

Fire division:
Distance or division made of incombustible materials.

Design load:
Characteristic load multiplied by load coefficients.

Hazardous substance:

Flammable substance: Solid, liquid or gaseous substances, mixture of substances, as well as substances that occur in combinations of such states, which due to their flash point, contact with other substances, pressure, temperature or other chemical properties, represent a fire risk.

Explosive substance: Other solid, liquid or gaseous substances, mixture of substances, as well as substances that occur in combinations of such states, which due to their properties can easily cause an explosion through impact, friction, or through contact with ignition sources or other substances.

Reactive substance: Solid, liquid or gaseous substances, mixture of substances, as well as substances that occur in combinations of such states, which upon contact with water, at their pressure, temperature or other chemical properties, represent a risk of dangerous reaction, explosion or emission of dangerous gas, vapour, dust or mist.

Pressurised substance: Solid, liquid or gaseous substances or mixture of substances other than fire or reactive substances, which are under pressure, and which can thereby represent a danger in the event of uncontrolled emission.

Main area:
Area or building block on the facility that contains identical or similar functions.

Process facility:
A physical system consisting of equipment that alters the properties of the process media.

Safety functions:
Technical barrier elements that are intended to reduce the possibility of a concrete fault, hazard and accident situation occurring, or that limit or prevent damage or inconveniences.

Safety system:
Technical barrier elements that are realised in a common system.
Section last changed: 01 January 2015

Definitions and abbreviated forms that follow from the Framework Regulations are not repeated in these guidelines. These guidelines clarify or provide supplementary information for definitions as mentioned in this section.
Main areas can be
  1. process area
  2. auxiliary plant
  3. tank area
  4. pipe trenches
  5. flares
  6. control rooms
  7. manned buildings in general (workshop, laboratory, fire station, administration buildings)
  8. unmanned buildings (substations, analyser buildings, warehouses)
  9. quays
  10. vehicle loading/offloading areas
  11. parking lots
  12. temporary office buildings, containers, etc.
Safety functions can be
  1. process sectioning,
  2. fire detection,
  3. gas detection,
  4. ignition source disconnection,
  5. maintaining overpressure in unclassified rooms,
  6. starting and stopping fire pumps, both manually and automatically,
  7. active fire-fighting
  8. active smoke control,
  9. securing processes,
  10. depressurisation,
  11. general alarm and evacuation alarm,
  12. production and distribution of emergency power,
  13. emergency lighting.