Section 4: Location of facilities and internal transport

Pyrotechnic installations must be designed, constructed and installed in such a way that a pyrotechnic event does not give rise to any significant risk for workers other than those who, as a result of their activity, are directly exposed to the effects of the event. Within the site, the isolation distances between the potential sites of a pyrotechnic event and the exposed sites are such that, in the event of…

Each pyrotechnic enclosure is marked by a fence or, failing that, by a system of signs clearly visible to anyone entering at any point. Access to these enclosures is forbidden to any person not involved in the activities taking place there. This prohibition does not apply to staff representatives in the exercise of their duties under the laws and regulations, to representatives of the administration or to persons authorised by…

I. – Within the pyrotechnic enclosure, separate pyrotechnic installations are provided for : 1° The study, experimentation and testing of explosive substances or objects; 2° The manufacture and handling of explosive objects; 3° The manufacture and handling of explosive substances; 4° Destruction of explosive substances or objects; 5° The storage of explosive substances or objects, with the exception of the storage of quantities required for ongoing production. II. – However,…

Non-pyrotechnic installations presenting a significant risk of fire or explosion, such as stores of flammable products not used in the manufacture of explosive substances or objects, wood or paper, tyre and cardboard stores, joineries, compressed gas stores, are located outside the pyrotechnic enclosure or arranged in such a way that any incident occurring in one of these installations does not affect safety conditions in the pyrotechnic enclosure.