(IV-7-3) General Safety

Rules IV Industrial Services
Part 7 Offshore Technology
Chapter 3 General Safety
Section 8
Active Fire Protection
Table 8.1
Firefighting systems and equipment
Areas and spaces to protected
Permanently installed fire extinguishing
systems
CO 2
Pressure water
spraying system
Foam system
Connect. of firehoses
Portable and mobile extinguishing
equipment
portable mobile
Dry powder, 5
kg
CO2
Dry powder,
50 kg
Foam, 45 liters
Machinery spaces with
internal combustion
engines total outputs:
Boiler rooms
Spaces with
electrical machinery,
total output:
< 750 kW 2 1
> 360 kW 1 dry
powder or 1 foam
≥ 750 kW CO 2 or pressure water min. 2
1
system or high expansion
1 dry powder or
foam system
2
1 foam
≥ 1.000 kW
< 1.000 kW
Oil filled equ.: CO 2 or deluge
or foam
min. 2
3 2 1
3 2
Spaces for emergency diesels, aux.
Diesel with > 750 kW
CO 2 or pressure water system
1
Store rooms and galleys
Galley: CO 2 in the hoods
about stoves
1
1 in
galley
Acomodation areas
Automatic sprinkler system
1 every
20 m +
at each
exit
Control rooms with radio or electrical
switchgear
1 2
Motor lifeboats 1 x 6 kg
H.2 Fireman's outfits
H.2.1 Type of outfit
Each fireman’s outfit shall consist of at least:
a) breathing apparatus of an approved type which may be either:
• a smoke helmet or smoke mask which shall be provided with a suitable air pump and a length of air
hose sufficient to reach from the open deck, well clear of doorway to any part of the machinery
spaces. If, in order to comply with these Rules, an air hose exceeding 36 m in length would be necessary,
a self-contained breathing apparatus shall be substituted or provided in addition as determined
by GL, or
• a self-contained compressed-air-operated breathing apparatus, the volume of air contained in the
cylinders of which shall be at least 1200 l, or other self-contained breathing apparatus which shall be
capable of functioning for at least 30 minutes.
At least two spare fillings have to be provided for each breathing apparatus.
b) a fire proof lifeline of sufficient length and strength, capable of being attached by means of a snaphook
to the harness of the breathing apparatus or to a separate belt in order to prevent the breathing
apparatus becoming detached when the lifeline is operated;
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