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Fire and Consequential Loss Insurance

ë Segregation of hazardous processes and hazardous goods.
ë Separate storage of oils, paints, and petrol

Features of bad housekeeping are :

a) Failure to maintain a high standard of order and cleanliness.
b) The presence of defective windows, trap doors, and the like.
c) Neglect of situations where litter or trade waste can accumulate

and into which cigarette ends, lighted matches or other sources
of ignition can be dropped.
d) Congestion in storage of stocks, plant and machinery, etc. or
insufficient floor space.
e) Failure to provide the appropriate safeguards in the storage and
use of hazardous material.
f) The installation of unsuitable types of heating and lighting
arrangements.
g) Failure to safeguard all supplies of power, lighting and heating
when the premises are left unattended.
h) Fire extinguishing appliances either not provided for or, are
insufficient in number, not properly distributed or maintained.
i) Buildings, boundary walls etc, in a poor state of repair and thus
vulnerable to external fires.

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