What is BS 6336 - Guide to the development of fire tests about?   
BS 6336 focuses on guidance to development of tests used for hazard assessment.
The aim of BS 6336 is to provide best industry guidance in the development of standardized test methods that will minimize fire hazards.
BS 6336 provides guidance on the development and use of fire tests, including advice on the circumstances when new tests should be standardized. It sets the need for fire tests into the context of the assessment of fire hazard. Recommendations on the use of related terminology are included as is a qualitative outline of fire theory.
Who is BS 6336 - Guide to the development of fire tests for?  
BS 6336 on the guide to the development of fire tests is relevant to: 
- Writers of standards, regulatory and enforcement bodies
- Fire safety engineers
- Designers and architects;
- Manufacturers and fabricators
- Wholesalers and retailers
- Safety managers
- Advice services and educational bodies
- Any group which needs to use fire terminology
Why should you use BS 6336 - Guide to the development of fire tests?   
There are over 450 000 fires each year in the UK and the cost is high: about 700 lives lost, many thousands of serious injuries and hundreds of millions of pounds worth of direct damage. A wide variety of materials, products, structures and assemblies is involved and for a number of years much concern has been expressed, both in the UK and internationally, over the use of inappropriate and possibly misleading results from fire test methods to assess the behaviour of such objects in fires. There has also been concern over the use of misleading fire terminology and the misuse of fire test data, particularly small-scale test results, as the sole indicators of fire safety.
BS 6336 will ensure in the interests of public safety that no one will misrepresent facts about fire tests or use their results in such a way as to give a false impression of fire safety. BS 6336 is intended to help anyone who prepares a specification or code of practice involving a material or product that can ignite, burn or overheat to take due account of any fire hazard which may arise from the use of that material or product. This it does by indicating the steps which are necessary in designing or updating fire tests, and by showing how the results should be applied in fire engineering and other fields. BS 6336 gives guidance to those concerned with maintaining acceptable standards of safety from fire and those concerned in any way with fire tests, fire test data and fire hazard assessment.
BS 6336 is also intended to help anyone purchasing, specifying or using materials or products to understand the need to consider the possible fire hazard and the way in which fire tests may help in assessing that fire hazard. BS 6336 will help them too to understand the need to consider any special precautions that may be required for the safe use of these items in specific environments.
