SSH EN 15947-5:2010

Pyrotechnic articles - Fireworks, Categories 1, 2, and 3 - Part 5: Requirements for construction and performance

Scope

This European Standard specifies requirements for the construction, performance and primary packaging of fireworks of category 1, 2 and 3 of the following types:
- aerial wheels;
- bangers;
- batteries and combinations;
- Bengal flames;
- Bengal matches;
- Bengal sticks;
- Christmas crackers;
- crackling granules;
- double bangers;
- flash bangers;
- flash pellets;
- fountains;
- ground movers;
- ground spinners;
- hand-held sparklers;
- jumping crackers;
- jumping ground spinners;
- mines;
- mini rockets;
- non-hand-held sparklers;
- novelty matches;
- party poppers;
- rockets;
- Roman candles;
- serpents;
- shot tubes;
- snaps;
- spinners;
- table bombs;
- throwdowns;
- wheels.
This European Standard does not apply for articles containing military explosives, commercial blasting agents or pyrotechnic composition that includes any of the following substances:
- arsenic or arsenic compounds;
- hexachlorobenzene;
- mixtures containing a mass fraction of chlorates greater than 80 %;
- mixtures of chlorates with metals;
- mixtures of chlorates with red phosphorus (except when used in Christmas crackers, party poppers or snaps);
- mixtures of chlorates with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II);
- mixtures of chlorates with sulfur (these mixtures are allowed for friction heads only);
- mixtures of chlorates with sulfides;
- lead or lead compounds;
- mercury compounds;
- white phosphorus;
- picrates or picric acid;
- potassium chlorate with a mass fraction of bromates greater than 0,15 %;
- sulfur with an acidity, expressed in mass fraction of sulphuric acid, greater than 0,002 %;
- zirconium with a particle size of less than 40 µm.

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