Conclusion
Fire hazards from aerosol cans

The storage of products packaged in aerosol cans, such as hairspray, deodorant, household cleaning products, etc., presents a fire hazard, due to the high proportion of flammable compounds they contain.

This document has proposed a method for defining this risk and proposing prevention and protection measures adapted to it.

This method is based in particular on feedback and tests carried out at INERIS over the last ten years.

The main conclusions of this study are as follows:

• a fire in an aerosol dispenser storage facility develops very rapidly in several phases. An initial build-up phase, during which individual bursts occur at intervals, a peak phase, during which these bursts are almost simultaneous, and an extinguishing phase;

• an...