Safety

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FIRE
General emergency alarm

"abandon ship!"

Seven short blasts

followed by
one long blast.
Fire prevention equipment,

fire detection equipment

and
fire fighting equipment

must regularly be checked and tested.

SOUND
If you cannot extinguish the fire FIRE
on your own in two minutes, you must

. raise the fire alarm

(all passengers and crew and,
if necessary, shore based stations and
vessels in the vicinity, must be alerted.)
. try to control the fire;
. find out what is burning by the colour and
odour of the smoke;
. take precautions against toxic smoke; (wind
from abeam will reduce risk of suffocation);
.check the cargo plan for any dangerous goods.
 fire fighting

ACTIONS:
. Shut off any ventilation
. shut off any ignition source
. close all the fire-retarding doors
. start the fire extinguishing pumps
. extinguish the fire
. keep adjacent spaces wet
. prepare first aid equipment
. hand out breathing equipment.
Symbols for

fire control plan

PUSH-BUTTON
FIRE AXE
FOR FIRE-ALARM

SPACE
HORN FOR PROTECTED
FIRE ALARM BY AUTOMATIC
FIRE ALARM

FIRE-ALARM
BELL SPACE PROTECTED
BY CO2

MANUALLY
OPERATED CO2 HORN
CALL POINT
CO2 RELEASE FOAM GUN
STATION (MONITOR)

HEAT DETECTOR FOAM NOZZLE

SPACE
HALON HORN PROTECTED
BY FOAM

FOAM FOAM VALVE

INSTALLATION
 WATER GUN
FIRE PUMP
(MONITOR)

SPACE WHEELED
PROTECTED BY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
DRENCHING
SYSTEM

BILGE PUMP DRENCHING

INSTALLATION

REMOTE CONTROLLED
EMERGENCY
PUMPS OR
BILGE PUMP
EMERGENCY SWITCHES
VALVES FOR REMOTE CONTROLLED
DRENCHING SKYLIGHTS
SYSTEM

REMOTE CONTROLLED
FUEL/LUBE OIL
FIRE STATION
VALVES

SMOKE CONTROL STATION

DETECTOR

FIRE DEMPER PORTABLE

IN FOAM APPLICATOR
VENT DUCT
A-CLASS B-CLASS
FIRE DOOR SELF CLOSING
FIRE DOOR

A-CLASS
SELF- B-CLASS
CLOSING SLIDING
FIRE DOOR FIRE DOOR

SLIDING
A-CLASS GAS DETECTOR
SELF-CLOSING
FIRE DOOR

B-CLASS FLAME DETECTOR

FIRE DOOR
 SPRINKLER
FIRE ALARM SECTION
VALVE

SPRINKLER
INSTALLATION CO2 BATTERY

SPACE
PROTECTED BY POWDER
SPRINKLER INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION

SPRINKLER POWDER
HORN HOSE AND HANDGUN
POWDER CLOSING APPLIANCE
MONITOR (EXTERIOR INLET/
(GUN) OUTLET VENTILATION)

FOAM
RELEASE REMOTE VENTILATION
STATION SHUT-OFF

POWDER
RELEASE MAIN VERTICAL ZONE
STATION

FIRE MAIN HOSE BOX WITH

WITH SPRAY/JET
FIRE VALVES FIRE NOZZLE
 LOCKER
SHORE WITH
CONNECTION ADDITIONAL
BREATHING APPARATUS

LOCKER WITH
FIRE PUMP ADDITIONAL
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

WATER FOG PRIMARY ESCAPE

APPLICATOR

LOCKER WITH
FIREMAN’S SECONDARY ESCAPE
OUTFIT
A-CLASS
DIVISION EMERGENCY
GENERATOR

INERT GAS EMERGENCY

INSTALLATION SWITCHBOARD

HIGH EXPANSION
FOAM
SUPPLY-TANK

CO2/NITROGEN
BULK
INSTALLATION STC-ROTTERDAM
Abandon ship!

If the fire is massive and advanced, and cannot be

extinguished, the ship must be abandoned.
 ROLL CALL

At the assembly station

(muster station)
all the names of the
persons on board
must be called out
to see if anyone is missing.
Lifeboat and davit
Free-fall davit
 PERSON OVER BOARD

When a person has fallen overboard, you must

. call out “MAN (OR WOMAN) OVER BOARD!”
. throw a lifebuoy into the water
. keep your eyes on the person in the water
. indicate to others the person’s position.

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M.O.B.
 Symbols relating to
life-saving appliances
and arrangements.

The safety officer is responsible

for the maintenance of all the
life-boats, rafts, M.O.B. boat,
life buoys, life belts,
flares and rockets and
the emergency transmitter.
RELEASE GRIPES FROM
GRAVITY OR LUFFING
DAVIT.

LOWER LIFEBOAT
TO WATER.
LOWER LIFERAFT
TO WATER.

LOWER RESCUE BOAT

TO WATER.
SECURE HATCHES.

FASTEN SEAT BELTS.

START WATER-SPRAY.

START ENGINE.
START AIR SUPPLY.
RECOMMENDED SYMBOLS
INDICATING THE LOCATION OF:

emergency equipment, e.g.

assembly stations (muster stations), e.g.

and escapes, e.g.

 DAVIT-LAUNCHED
LIFE-BOAT LIFE-RAFT

RESCUE LIFE-BUOY
BOAT WITH LIFELINE

LIFE-RAFT LIFE-BUOY
WITH LIGHT
LIFE-BUOY
WITH RADAR
LIGHT AND TRANSPONDER
SMOKE

SURVIVAL CRAFT
LIFE-JACKET DISTRESS SIGNAL

CHILD’S MUSTER STATION

LIFE-JACKET (OR: ASSEMBLY
STATION)
EMBARKATION EMERGENCY
LADDER POSITION
INDICATING
RADIO BEACON

EVACUATION EMERGENCY
SITE EXIT

IMMERSION
SUIT EXIT
SURVIVAL CRAFT
PORTABLE RADIO

ROCKET
PARACHUTE
FLARES

LINE-THROWING
APPLIANCE
explosive toxic
inflammable
DANGEROUS GOODS

oxidizing harmful or corrosive

agent irritating 42
 Emergency response
in case of spill or leak:
s

. evacuate the area

. prevent exposure to skin and eyes
. use a breathing apparatus
. use a waterspray to reduce the vapour
. do not smoke; do not use flares or
open flames
. shut off any source of ignition
. stop leakage; let leakage evaporate;
scoop away the remainder
. cover contaminated goods with tarpaulins.
 Emergency response
s

in case of a fire:

. SMALL FIRE:
use dry chemical or carbon
dioxide
. MASSIVE OR ADVANCED FIRE:
use water spray, hose spray or
monitor-nozzles to cool the area;
evacuate the area.
Emergency response in case of
exposure to dangerous goods
CALL A PHYSICIAN AND PRACTISE FIRST AID:
. carefully remove contaminated clothes

. eyes: flush with luke-warm, low pressure

running water for at least 15 minutes
. skin: in case of frost-bite, thaw frosted parts
. inhalation: remove patient into fresh air;
give oxygen or artificial respiration
. ingestion: with certain chemicals patients are not
allowed to vomit.
DANGEROUS GOODS

LABELS
 Orange coloured labels

Indicate
dangerous goods that must be
separated from
flammable liquids
by an intermediate space or
on deck by at least 12 metres.
 Red coloured labels

Indicate
dangerous goods that must be
separated from
flammable solids,
spontaneously combustible agents
or agents that are
dangerous when wet
by a longitudinal intermediate space
or on deck by at least 24 metres.
 Green coloured labels

Indicate
dangerous goods that must be
stored at a safe distance from
explosive goods.
 Yellow coloured labels

Indicate
dangerous goods that may not be
stored near
flammable gas,
non-flammable compressed gas
or
toxic gas.
explosive flammable toxic

oxidizing harmful or corrosive

agent irritating
MARINE
POLLUTANT
 2 3
1

non flammable flammable

explosive
compressed gas liquid or gas

4 4 4

spontaneously dangerous
flammable solid
combustible when wet
 5 6 6

infectuous substance
oxidizing agent toxic agent (bio-hazard)

7 8 9

miscellaneous
Radio acive corrosive dangerous goods
and articles
C P.C. van Kluijven

SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT COLLEGE ROTTERDAM