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THE REGULATORY REFORM (FIRE SAFETY) ORDER 2005 => Q & A => Topic started by: teacherGC on March 04, 2007, 09:35:09 PM

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: teacherGC on March 04, 2007, 09:35:09 PM

I thought that extinguishers of all types in the UK were now red. They are in the school where I teach. Why in the quiz for kids on this site are the correct answers  the old red, black, blue and cream colours they used to be ?

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: kurnal on March 04, 2007, 10:02:05 PM

Ouch!
only 10 years out of date...... a lot of the quiz is out of date- including the numbers of fire deaths.
Webmaster please note!!!!

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: Martin Burford on March 04, 2007, 10:26:09 PM

Don't forget Kurnal..extinguishers are still clour coded!
Conqueror

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: kurnal on March 04, 2007, 10:45:33 PM

Yes but not like that any more see the pics!

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: Chris Houston on March 05, 2007, 12:53:03 AM

I've pointed this out to the webmaster.  Thanks for letting us know.

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: FireNet on March 05, 2007, 06:34:45 AM

The colour of the of the extinguisher is explained within the text below "Types of Extinguisher ( & Colour Coding)" and the pictures represents the colour code.

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: kurnal on March 05, 2007, 07:41:25 AM

Point taken Firenet but I reaaly think that the pictures are too important to have them wrong.

People look at pictures first- thats the whole idea behind emergency signs and signals.

Our friends at safelincs have a number of pics on their site that could scale down or maybe you could use a graphic of a usage sign?

Title: Extinguisher Colours
Post by: AnthonyB on March 05, 2007, 05:38:23 PM

I use either clip art of red bodied extinguishers with a colour band or otherwise photos of each, quite simple. I can supply the jpegs if requested