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BS 8220-3:1990

Superseded

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Guide for security of buildings against crime Warehouses and distribution units

Available format(s)

Hardcopy

Superseded date

19-03-2004

Superseded by

BS 8220-3:2004

Language(s)

English

Published date

31-05-1990

$669.38
Including GST where applicable

Foreword
Committees responsible
Introduction
Section one. General guidance
Section two. Management aspects of security
Section three. Planning and design
Section four. Selecting and adapting existing
                   premises
Section five. Windows
Section six. Locks and other security hardware for
                   doors and shutters
Section seven. External doors
Section eight. Doors and shutters for goods
Section nine. Glass and plastics glazing sheet and
                   glazing
Section ten. Roofs, walls and other parts of the
                   structure
Section eleven. Site perimeter
Section twelve. Lighting
Section thirteen. Intruder detectors and alarms
Section fourteen. Closed-circuit television (CCTV)
Section fifteen. Access control
Section sixteen. Goods vehicle security
Section seventeen. Procedures for goods storage, despatch
                   and receipt
Section eighteen. Strongrooms, safes, theft of
                   information, cash offices
Section nineteen. Hazardous goods and dangerous
                   substances
Section twenty. Security staff
Appendices
A. Preliminary advice for new owners and managers
B. Security staff
C. Conditions of service of staff
D. Key security and keyholders
E. Lighting
F. Intruder alarms
G. Closed-circuit television (CCTV)
H. Telephones
J. Goods vehicles
K. Private and company cars
L. Goods storage
M. Goods despatch
N. Goods receipt
P. Reception of visitors
Q. Precautions against theft and fire-raising
R. Cash control
Tables
1. Guide to hardware for hinged exit doors which need
     to be locked from outside the building or premises
2. Guide to locks and other security hardware for
     doors secured from the inside
3. Locking and securing roller shutters
4. Locking and securing sectional overhead doors
5. Locking and securing up-and-over doors
6. Locking and securing sliding-folding shutter doors
7. Locking and securing sliding doors
8. Locking and securing large-panel slide-around-
     corner doors without independently-hinged panels
9. Locking and securing large-panel slide-around-
     corner doors with an independently-hinged leading
     panel
10. Locking and securing large-panel slide-around-
     corner doors with an independently-hinged trailing
     panel
11. Locking and securing large-panel sliding-folding
     doors without independently-hinged panels
12. Locking and securing large-panel sliding-folding
     doors with an independently-hinged leading panel
13. Locking and securing large-panel bi-folding doors
14. Locking and securing wicket doors
15. Relating perimeter security lighting schemes to risk
     (some examples for chain link fencing)
16. Types of detectors related to locations
17. Brief description of detectors
18. Effect of environmental and other variables on ultra-
     sonic, passive infra-red and microwave detectors
Figures
1. Major aspects of security
2. Typical window bars (viewed from inside)
3. Typical cross section of a roof grille showing how
     it is embedded into the building structure
4. Typical secure mortice deadlocks and box striker
     plate
5. Typical hook bolt mortice deadlock
6. Typical rim automatic deadlock
7. Typical rim automatic deadlatch
8. Typical surface-mounted cylinder locks and latch
     for shutters
9. Typical multi-point bolt and locking units
10. Typical robust padlockable bolts
11. Typical small bolts for personnel doors
12. Typical butt and security hinges
13. Typical security padbars and concealed shackle
     padlocks
14. Typical padbar and cross bar for close shackle
     padlocks
15. Typical push-button switches and switch locking box
16. Typical panic bar and bolt, single-leaf door
17. Typical spring-loaded escape bolts
18. Typical break-glass security deadlocks
19. Typical emergency locking latch
20. Typical master key systems
21. Typical high security steel door
22. Typical steel strongroom door
23. Typical chain-operated roller shutter door (viewed
     and secured from inside)
24. Isometric view of typical sectional overhead door
     with locks fitted (viewed and secured from inside)
25. Typical up-and-over door (viewed and secured from
     inside)
26. Typical plan view of a meeting shield attached to
     one of a pair of sliding-folding shutter doors
27. Typical sliding-folding shutter doors with locks
     fitted (viewed and secured from inside)
28. Typical sliding single-leaf door (viewed and secured
     from inside)
29. Typical large-panel slide-around-corner single-leaf
     door without independently-hinged panels (viewed in
     the open position and secured from inside)
30. Typical large-panel slide-around-corner single-leaf
     door with an independently-hinged leading panel
     (viewed in the open position and secured from inside)
31. Typical large-panel slide-around-corner single-leaf
     door with an independently-hinged trailing panel
     (viewed in the open position and secured from inside)
32. Typical pair of free-floating large-panel sliding-
     folding doors without independently-hinged panels
     (viewed and secured from inside)
33. Typical large-panel sliding-folding door with an
     independently-hinged leading panel (viewed and
     secured from inside)
34. Typical large-panel bi-folding double-leaf doors
     (viewed and secured from inside)
35. Typical grille and collapsible gate
36. Plan view of pipe held by continuous steel angle
     to prevent climbing
37. Typical chain link fence with cranked top (viewed
     from inside)
38. Typical welded mesh panel fence with barbed wire
     and razor edge tape coil topping (viewed from
     outside)
39. Typical expanded metal panel fence with anti-scaling
     barrier
40. Typical steel palisade fence (viewed from outside)
41. Typical lamps
42. Typical luminaires
43. Typical secure, rapid and continually monitored
     alarm transmission paths for alerting Police and
     other emergency services
44. Typical digital communication of alarm signals to
     an alarm company's remote monitoring centre for
     alerting Police and other emergency services
45. Typical places where the serial number of a safe can
     be located
46. Indication of dangerous substances on containers
     and packages
47. Explanation of hazard warning panel
48. Examples of hazard warning panels
49. Sign for buildings where pesticides are stored

Guidance on security measures aimed at forestalling both organized and opportunist crime.

Committee
B/209
DevelopmentNote
BS DRAFT 95/102865 DC REFERS TO A NEW REVISION
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
0
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

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