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CCPS Good practise guide for selection and Installation of Glass in Buildings Part A: Human Safety

The " Guidelines on use of glass in buildings- Part A: Human safety" address a very important need of securing human safety. These Guidelines, for the first time in Indian construction industry, have been prepared using consensus process entirely lead by the private sector,and supported not only by the industry but also the government and other stake holders.

The process has involved the stakeholders in preparing these guidelines through the steering committee,which has decided the scope and methadology, and at each stage suggested the changes and approved the draft. In order to ensure the integrity of the process the changes at each stage were discussed and minutes have been documented. The meetings have been held at Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore, so as to ensure the partcipation of various organisation and professionals through India.

Finally for a period of one month the draft guidelines were made available for public review.The feedback received has been presented to the steering committe and the final draft in the form of this publication has been approved in the steering commitee meeting held on the 2nd november 2007. A decision has also been taken to set up a review mechanism for regularly updating the guidelines in view of changes in the building environment and capabilities in the industry.This will ensure that the document remains updated and answers the need of times in the future also.

These guidelines not only reaffirms the defination of safety glass as outlined in the IS 2553, but also go a step further to define critical locations and lay out the procedure for establishing the tracebility protocol that can be used by regulatory bodies for ensuring safe use of glass.The guidelines further require that the manufacturers of processed glass get themselves registered with Bureau of Indian standards(BIS) and compulsorily use the ISI mark on glasses to certify that the products meet the requirements of safety glass laid down by BIS.