(IV-7-3) General Safety

Rules IV Industrial Services
Part 7 Offshore Substations
Chapter 3 General Safety
Section 4
Live-Saving Appliances
• fully equipped as required by the LSA Code; however, in the case of platforms installed in areas
such that, in the opinion of GL, certain items of equipment are unnecessary, GL may allow these
items to be dispensed with;
• as far as practicable, in a secure and sheltered position and protected from damage by fire, explosion
ore crane operation.
B.5.2
Lifeboats should be stowed attached to launching appliances.
B.5.3 Liferafts should be so stowed as to permit manual release of one raft or container at a time
from their securing arrangements.
B.5.4
Davit-launched liferafts should be stowed within reach of the lifting hooks.
B.6 Survival craft launching and recovery arrangements
B.6.1 Launching appliances complying with the requirements of the LSA Code should be provided
for all lifeboats and davit-launched liferafts.
B.6.2
the unit.
Only one type of release mechanism should be used for similar survival craft carried on board
B.6.3 Preparation and handling of survival craft at any one launching station should not interfere with
the prompt preparation and handling of any other survival craft or rescue boat at any other station.
B.6.4 During preparation and launching, the survival craft, its launching appliance and the area of
water into which it is to be launched should be adequately illuminated by emergency lighting.
B.6.5
Prevent any discharge of fluids on to survival craft during abandonment.
B.6.6 All lifeboats required for abandonment by the total number of persons permitted on board,
should be capable of being launched with their full complement of persons and equipment within 10 min
from the time the signal to abandon the unit is given.
B.6.7 Manual brakes should be so arranged that the brake is always applied unless the operator, or
a mechanism activated by the operator, holds the brake control in the “off” position.
B.6.8 Consideration should be given to the location and orientation of the survival craft with reference
to platform design and environmental orientation, such that clearance of the unit is achieved in an
efficient and safe manner having due regard to the capabilities of the survival craft.
C
Rescue Boats
C.1 Rescue boats should be stowed:
• in a state of continuous readiness for launching in not more than 5 min;
• if of an inflatable type, in a fully inflated condition at all times;
• in a position suitable for launching and recovery;
• so that neither the rescue boats nor their stowage arrangements will interfere with the operation of
any survival craft at any other launching station;
• in compliance with section B.5, if they are also lifeboats.
C.2 Launching arrangements should comply with B.6
C.3 Rapid recovery of the rescue boat should be possible when loaded with its full complement of
persons and equipment. If the rescue boat is also a lifeboat, rapid recovery should be possible when
loaded with its lifeboat equipment and the approved rescue boat complement of at least six persons.
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