CEN/TC 332/WG 2 - Fittings and fixtures

This document is a product specification, giving performance requirements for fire safety storage cabinets to be used for the storage of flammable liquids. It is applicable to cabinets with a total internal volume of not greater than 2 m3, which can be free standing, restrained to a wall or mounted on plinth or castors.
This document does not apply to brick enclosures or walk-in storage rooms.
This document does not apply to any support frame or mechanism other than the base which is integral to the fire safety storage cabinet.
Requirements are given in respect of the construction of the fire safety storage cabinet and its capacity to resist fire conditions on the outside. A classification of fire safety storage cabinets is given, according to the level of fire resistance offered, and a type test is included, see Annex A.
The tests described in this document are type tests.
This document does not discriminate between different flammable liquids, which can have considerably different physical properties.
Attention is drawn to national regulations, which can apply with regard to the storage of flammable liquids.

This European standard is a product specification, giving performance requirements for fire safety cabinets used for storing pressurised gas cylinders. It is applicable to cabinets with a total internal volume suitable to store pressurised gas cylinders with a total volume not exceeding 220 l, including cylinders of purging gases.
NOTE 1   This means that up to four gas cylinders of 50 l or up to three gas cylinders of 70 l can be stored in a single cabinet.
NOTE 2   It is intended that the pressurised gas cylinders can be in use while in the cabinet.
NOTE 3   Attention is drawn to national regulations which can apply with regard to the storage and use of pressurised gas cylinders.
NOTE 4   The safety cabinet can be free standing, restrained to a wall or mounted on wheels or castors.
This standard is not applicable to brick enclosures, walk-in storage rooms or cabinets which do not take their weight on their base.
Requirements are given in respect to the construction of the cabinet and its capacity to resist fire conditions on the outside. A type test is included, which is based on the already existing fire resistance (heating curve) tests given in EN 14470-1.
The tests described in this European Standard are type tests (for the storage of flammable liquids EN 14470-1 is applicable – the criteria for failure are different – see Annex A).

The European Standard gives guidance for the installation of laboratory benches, storage units and services and their connections and fittings.

This European standard specifies colour codes and nomenclature for liquids, gases and vacuum and the application of these codes and nomenclature on or in the vicinity of laboratory service controls.
This European Standard does not apply to medical or healthcare facilities using medical gases from a medical supply system conforming to EN 737.

This document is applicable to biology, chemistry and physics laboratories where research, preparative, analytical, process activities take place and which can involve work with hazardous substances, including higher education (college and university teaching and post-graduate research).
This document does not cover the requirements of schools, i.e. pre college/pre-university (refer to EN 13150), or highly specialist laboratories which need very specific, bespoke solutions to enable them to function.
This document specifies requirements for installation and design of laboratory benches, associated storage units, and for the provision and connection of services integral or delivered to the laboratory benches. This document gives guidelines for all parties involved in the planning, design, manufacture, installation, testing of a new laboratory or in the refurbishment of an existing laboratory.
For safety storage cabinets for flammable liquids EN 14470-1 and for pressurized gas cylinders EN 14470-2 applies.

This European Standard is a product specification, giving performance requirements for fire safety cabinets to be used for the storage of flammable liquids in laboratories. It is applicable to cabinets with a total internal volume of not greater than 1 m3, which may be free standing, restrained to a wall or mounted on wheels or castors. It is not applicable to brick enclosures or walk-in storage rooms.
This European Standard is not applicable to cabinets which do not take their weight on their base.
Requirements are given in respect of the construction of the cabinet and its capacity to resist fire conditions on the outside. A classification of cabinets is given, according to the level of fire resistance offered, and a type test is included, which draws on already existing fire resistance tests, such as those given in ISO 834-1 [1] and EN 1363-1.
The tests described in this European Standard are type tests.
NOTE 1   This European Standard does not discriminate between different flammable liquids, which may have considerably different physical properties. The suitability of the standard in respect of any given flammable liquid should be ascertained by the user.
NOTE 2   Attention is drawn to national regulations which may apply with regard to the storage of flammable liquids.