fire blanket A fire blanket is designed to extinguish minor fires developing. It is composed of a sheet of fireproof material that is placed on a fire to smother it. This sheet material is installed in a container easily accessible so it can be used quickly when needed. Your coverage must be mounted in an easily accessible, located near a potential hazard.
To explain how a fire blanket works, it is important to know how a fire. For a fire to be started and continue to burn, the four components of the fire tetrahedron must be present: heat, fuel, oxygen and a chemical chain reaction. When fire retardant cover is placed on an object on fire to form a watertight seal, this cuts the oxygen supply of the fire and thereby put the fire as it removes one of the components of the fire tetrahedron.
fire blankets have many uses, most commonly felt in the case of a cooking fire, they can also be used to wrap a person whose clothes are on fire for paper waste bin fires, or can be used to wrap around a hot or burning object for the move to a safe place. When you use a blanket over a fire, it is essential to protect your hands with the blanket so it is folded around them to protect them from heat.
Whether for use in the workplace or in your home, you must ensure that any insurance coverage you purchase is approved to BSEN 1869:1997 Kitemark with EN. This assures that the cover has been tested for fire resistance, drape, flexibility and vapor barrier and made under strict quality controlled conditions when lives are at stake, you can not afford to compromise.
Posted on June 29, 2010.
