www.Droit-Afrique.com Art.D.170-18.- Premises where the flammable substances in the first group are stored or handled may be lit using only external lamps placed behind framed glass. They shall not contain any fireplace, no flame, no equipment that can result in the external production of sparks or having parts capable of becoming incandescent. They must be perfectly ventilated. It shall be strictly prohibited to smoke in there: a notice in clearly-visible characters or a symbol pointing to this ban shall have to be put up there in. Art.D.170-19.- In premises where flammable substances in the first or second group are stored or handled, no routine work station should be found more than ten metres from an exit. Mali with daylight and on the condition that no fireplace therein is lit. Pipes taking combustible liquids or gases to fixed lighting and heating appliances should be made of metal completely. Flames from portable heating or lighting appliances should be placed at least one metre vertically and 0.30 metres laterally from any combustible part of the building, furniture or deposited goods ; these distances may be reduced if a non-combustible screen, which does not touch the wall to be protected, is placed between the said wall and the flame. Art.D.170-21.- Portable lighting appliances other than electric lighting appliances must have a stable and solid support. The windows of these premises should be easy to open from the inside out. Fixed or portable lighting appliances should be equipped with a glass, a globe, a wire mesh web or any other device meant to prevent the flame from coming into contact with flammable substances. It shall be prohibited to place and allow inflammable substances in the first or second group in the staircase, passages or corridors or under staircases as well as near the exits of premises and buildings. Lighting appliances found in passages should not soil the walls or should be found at least two metres from the floor. Mobile containers of over two litres containing flammable liquids in the first or second group should be leak tight; if they are made of glass, they shall have a metallic envelope, which is also leak tight. Foam, cotton, paper, steeped in flammable liquids or fatty substances shall, after use, have to be kept in closed and leak-tight metallic containers. Art.D.170-20.- For lighting and heating, it shall be prohibited to use any liquid that produces flammable vapours above 35º centigrade if the equipment used for this liquid is not placed in a manner as to prevent the personnel from coming into contact with it and if the part of this equipment containing the liquid is not perfectly leak tight. When the personnel is present, filling heating appliances that use liquid combustibles and lighting appliances either in work premises, passages or staircases used for movement, may be done only Fry pans, naked fire-producing appliances, pipes and chimneys shall be installed so as to avoid directly connecting the fire to the building, substances or objects found nearby, or the cloths of personnel. Art.D.170-22.-Institutions shall have to place exits and open spaces judiciously spread out to ensure the rapid evacuation of personnel and customers in the event of a fire. The exits of premises and building may not and notably may never be cluttered with goods or any objects whatsoever. The exits of premises or buildings may never be less than two in number when they have to be used as a passage by more than one hundred people, whether or not these people belong to the institution's workforce. This number shall be increased by a one unit for every five hundred people or a fraction of the first five hundred. The width of the exits shall never be less than 80 centimetres. The length of all the exits shall not be less than: Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 18/29