Philippines Occupational Safety and Health Standards R1140: Rule 1140 Explosives: manufacture, handling and storage only in approved places, buildings used for nothing else, quantity and distance tables, magazine construction and storage rules, records of disposition, and the Fire Code applied to transport and storage

What does R1140 require?

Explosives, fireworks and pyrotechnics are manufactured, handled and stored only in approved places, and buildings authorised for manufacture are used for no other purpose. The Rule defines explosives plants, factory buildings, magazines and natural and artificial barricades (an earth mound or revetted wall at least one metre thick screening the eave line from a point 3.7 metres above a railway or highway), limits quantities under Rule 1144, applies the quantity and distance tables of Rule 1145 to the siting of magazines and buildings relative to inhabited buildings, railways and highways, sets the construction, housekeeping and handling rules for magazines in Rule 1146, requires records of the disposition of explosives under Rule 1147, and applies the Fire Code of the Philippines to transport outside the plant and adopts its Rule 20 on storage.