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Fire
Protection in Shipyard Employment
General
provisions
Purpose
and Scope 501
Fire safety
plan 502
Precautions
before hot work 503
Fire watches
504
Fire response
505
Hazards of
fixed extinguishers on board vessel 506
Landside fire
protection system 507
Training 508
Purpose
Requires employers to protect
all employees from fire hazards in shipyard employment, including employees
engaged in fire response activities
Provides increased protection
for shipyard employment workers from the hazards of fire on vessels
and vessel sections and at land-side facilities
Reflects new technologies
and national NFPA consensus standards
Scope
Covers employers with employees
engaged in
Shipyard employment aboard
vessels and vessel sections
Land - side operations
Regardless of geographic locations
Employee participation
Employer00 must provide
for employees or employee representatives to participate in developing
and reviewing programs and policies to comply with this subpart
Multi-employer worksites
Host employer responsibilities
Inform employers about the
content of the fire safety plan including hazards, controls, fire safety
and health rules, and emergency procedures
Ensure safety and health responsibilities
for fire protection are assigned as appropriate to other employers at
the worksite
Multi-employer worksites (cont00)
Contract employer responsibilities
Ensure host employer knows
about the fire-related hazards associated with the contract employer's
work and what the contract employer is doing to address them
Advise the host employer of
any previously unidentified fire- related hazards that the contract
employer identifies at the worksite
Fire
safety plan
29 CFR 1950-502
Employer responsibilities
Plan elements
Reviewing
the plan with employees
Additional
employer requirements
Contract employers
Plan elements
Plan must include:
Identification of significant
fire hazards
Procedures for recognizing
and reporting unsafe conditions
Alarm procedures
Procedures for notifying employees
of a fire emergency
Procedures for notifying fire
response organizations of a fire emergency
Procedures for evacuation
Procedures to account for
all employees after an evacuation; and
Names, job titles, or departments
or individuals who can be contacted for information about the plan
Reviewing the plan
with employees
The employer must review the
plan with each employee at the following times:
By March 14, 2004, for current
employees
Upon initial assignment for
new employees; and
When the actions the employee
must take under the plan change because of a change in duties or a change
in the plan.
Additional plan requirements
Must be accessible to employees,
employee representatives and OSHA
Review and update at least
annually
Document affected employees
have been informed about the plan
Give a copy to outside fire
response organizations that will respond to fires
Contract employers
Contract employers in shipyard
employment must have a fire safety plan for their employees, and the
plan must comply with the host employer's fire safety plan
The contract employer can
adopt the host employers fire safety plan to meet this requirement
Precautions
for hot work
29 CFR 1915 00503
General requirements
Designated
areas
Non-designated
areas
Specific requirements
Maintaining
fire hazard free conditions
Fuel gas and
oxygen supply line and torches
General requirements
- designated areas
The employer may designate
areas that are free of fire hazards
for hot work in sites such as:
Vessels
Vessel sections
Fabricating shops
Subassembly areas
Non-designated areas
Visually inspect area where
hot work will be performed, including adjacent areas unless Marine Chemist00
certificate or Shipyard Competent person00 logs is used for authorization
Perform hot work only in areas
that are free of fire hazards, or controlled by physical isolation,
fire watches, etc.
Maintain fire hazard-free
conditions
Precautions for hot
work 00specific requirements
Fuel gas and oxygen supply
lines and torches
No unattended lines in confined
spaces
No unattended charged lines
in enclosed spaces for more than 15 minutes
Fuel gas and oxygen hose lines
disconnected at end of each shift
Precautions for hot
work 00specific requirements (cont00)
Roll lines back to supply
manifold or open air and then disconnect torch, or
Disconnect extended fuel gas
and oxygen hose lines at the the supply manifold
Only if the lines are given
a positive means of identification
Use a drop test or other positive
means to ensure the integrity of fuel gas and oxygen burning system
before resuming hot work
Fire
watches
29 CFR 1915 - 504
Written policy
Posting fire
watches
Assigning
employees to fire watch duty
Written policy
Detailed fire watch training
Identifies duties employees
will perform and equipment they will be given
Includes personal protective
equipment (PPE) that must be made available and worn
Posting fire watches
Must post a fire watch during
hot work if any of the following are present:
Slag, weld splatter, or
sparks might pass through an opening and cause a fire
Fire-resistant guards or curtains
are not used to prevent ignition of combustible materials on or near
decks, bulkheads, etc
Combustible material is closer
than 35 ft. and cannot be removed, shielded or protected
Posting fire watches (cont00)
Hot work is carried out on
or near insulation, combustible coatings that cannot be shielded, cut
back, removed, or inerted
Combustible materials adjacent
to the opposite sides of bulkheads, decks, etc. may be ignited by conduction
or radiation
The hot work is close enough
to cause ignition through heat radiation or conduction on:
Insulated pipes, bulkheads,
decks, partitions, or overheads; or
Combustible materials and/or
coatings
Posting fire watches (cont00)
The work is close enough to
unprotected combustible pipe or cable runs to cause ignition
A Marine Chemist, a Coast
Guard-authorized person, or a shipyard Competent Person requires that
a fire watch be posted
Assigning employees
to fire
watch duty
Employees must not be assigned
additional duties while the hot work is in progress
Employees must be physically
capable of performing fire watch duties
Employees assigned to fire
watch duty must:
Have a clear view and immediate
access to all areas included in the fire watch
Be able to communicate with
workers exposed to hot work
Be authorized to stop work
and restore safe conditions within hot work area
Assigning employees
to fire
watch duty (cont00)
Remain in the hot work area
for 30 minutes after completion of the hot work - Unless the employer
or its representative surveys the exposed area and makes a determination
that there is no further fire hazard
Be trained to detect fires
in areas exposed to the hot work
Extinguish incipient stage
fires in the hot work area
Alert employees of any fire
beyond the incipient stage; and
If unable to extinguish fire,
activate the alarm
Fire
response
29 CFR 1915 00505
Employer responsibilities
Written policy
information
Internal
response
External response
Medical requirements
for shipyard response employees
Organization
of internal fire response functions
Personal protective
clothing and equipment for fire response employees
Equipment
maintenance (PPE)
Employer responsibilities
Decide what type of response
will be provided and who will provide it
Internal fire response
Outside fire response
Create, maintain, and update
a written policy that:
Describes the internal and
outside fire response organizations that the employer will use; and
Defines evacuation procedures,
if the employer chooses to require a total or partial evacuation of
the worksite at the time of a fire
Written policy
00internal response
The basic structure of the
fire response organization
Number of trained fire response
employees
The fire response functions
that will be carried out
Minimum number of fire response
employees necessary
Type, amount, and frequency
of training that must be given to fire response employees
Procedures for using protective
clothing and equipment
Written policy
00outside response
Types of fire suppression
incidents to which the fire response organization is expected to respond
at the employer's facility
Liaisons between the employer
and the outside fire response organizations
Written policy
00outside response (cont00)
A plan for fire response functions
that:
Addresses procedures for
obtaining assistance from the outside fire response organization
Familiarizes the outside fire
response organization with the layout of the employer's facility or
worksite
Sets forth how hose and coupling
connections will be made compatible and location of adapter couplings
States employer will not allow
use of incompatible hose connections
Written policy
00combination of internal and outside response
The basic organizational structure
of the combined fire response
Number of combined trained
fire responders
Fire response functions that
may need to be carried out
Minimum number of fire response
employees necessary
Number and types of apparatuses,
and
Description of the fire suppression
operations established by written standard operating procedures for
each particular type of response at the worksite
Type, amount, and frequency
of joint training with outside fire response organizations
Employee evacuation
Emergency escape procedures
Procedures to be followed
by employees who remain at worksite to perform critical operations during
the evacuation
Procedures to account for
all employees after emergency evacuation is completed
Means of reporting fires and
other emergencies
Names or job titles of employees
or departments to be contacted for further information or explanation
of duties
Written emergency response
The employer must include
the following information in the employer's written policy:
A description of the emergency
rescue procedures; and
Names or job titles of the
employees who are assigned to perform them
Medical requirements
for shipyard fire response employees
The employer must ensure that:
Fire response employees receive
medical exams to assure they are physically and medically fit for duties
expected to perform
Fire response employees, required
to wear respirators meet the medical requirements
Each fire response employee
has an annual medical examination; and
Medical records are kept on
fire response employees
Organization of internal
fire response functions
Organize fire response functions
to ensure adequate resources for emergency operations
Establish lines of authority
and assign responsibilities to ensure components of the internal fire
response are accomplished
Set up incident management
system to coordinate and direct fire response functions, including:
Specific fire emergency
responsibilities
Accountability for all fire
response employees participating in an emergency operation; and
Resources offered by outside
organizations
Provide information as required
to the outside fire response organization to be used
PPE for fire response
employees
General requirements
Thermal stability and flame
resistance
Respiratory protection
Interior structural firefighting
operations
Proximity firefighting operations
Personal alert safety system
(PASS) devices
Life safety ropes, body harnesses
and hardware
General requirements
Employer must:
At no cost, supply all
fire response employees appropriate personal protective clothing
and equipment they need to perform expected duties
Ensure employees wear the
appropriate PPE and use the equipment, when necessary, to protect
them from hazardous exposures
Thermal stability and
flame resistance
Ensure each fire response
employee exposed to flame hazards do not wear clothing that could increase
the extent of injury
Prohibit wearing clothing
made from acetate, nylon, or polyester, either alone or in blends, unless
it can be shown that:
The fabric will withstand
the flammability hazard that may be encountered; or
The clothing will be worn
in such a way to eliminate the flammability hazard that may be encountered
Personal Alert Safety
System (PASS) devices
Provide each fire response
employee involved in firefighting operations with a PASS device; and
Ensure that each PASS device
meets the recommendations in NFPA 1982-1998 Standard on Personal Alert
Safety Systems (PASS)
Life safety ropes,
body harnesses and hardware
The employer must ensure that:
All life safety ropes,
body harnesses, and hardware used by fire response employees for emergency
operations meet the applicable recommendations in NFPA 1983-2001
Fire response employees use
only Class I body harnesses to attach to ladders and aerial devices;
and
Fire response employees use
only Class II and Class III body harnesses for fall arrest and rappelling
operations
Equipment maintenance
Personal protective equipment
Employer must inspect and
maintain PPE used to protect fire response employees to ensure that
it provides the intended protection
Fire response equipment.
Keep fire response equipment
in a state of readiness
Standardize all fire hose
coupling and connection threads throughout the facility
Ensure all fire hoses and
coupling connection threads are the same throughout the facility as
those used by the outside fire response organization, or
Supply suitable adapter couplings
if such an organization is expected to use the fire response equipment
within a facility or vessel or vessel section
Hazards
of fixed extinguishing systems on board vessels and vessel sections
0029 CFR 1915 - 506
Employer responsibilities
Requirements
for automatic and manual systems
Sea and dock
trials
Doors and
hatches
Testing the
system
Conducting
system maintenance
Using fixed
manual extinguishing systems for protection
Employer00 responsibilities
The employer must comply with
the provisions of this section whenever employees are exposed to fixed
extinguishing systems that could create a dangerous atmosphere when
activated in vessels and vessel sections, regardless of geographic location
Requirements for automatic
and manual systems
Before working in a a space
with a fixed system, either:
Physically isolate the systems
or use other positive means to prevent the systems' discharge;
or
Ensure employees are trained
to recognize:
Systems' discharge and
evacuation alarms and the appropriate escape routes; and
Hazards associated with the
extinguishing systems and agents including the dangers of disturbing
system components and equipment
Sea and dock trials
and
door hatches
During trials, the employer
must ensure that all systems remain operational
Take protective measures to
ensure all doors, hatches, scuttles, and other exit openings remain
working and accessible for escape in the event the systems are activated;
and
Sea and dock trials
and
door hatches (cont00)
Ensure that all inward opening
doors, hatches, scuttles, and other potential barriers to safe exit
are removed or blocked open, if systems' activation could result in
a positive pressure in the protected spaces sufficient to impede escape
Testing the system
When testing a fixed extinguishing
system involves a total discharge of extinguishing medium into a space,
employer must:
Evacuate all employees
from space and assure no employees remain in the space during the discharge
Retest the atmosphere to ensure
that the oxygen levels are safe for employees to enter
When testing a fixed extinguishing
system does not involve a total discharge of the systems extinguishing
medium, employer must:
Ensure system's extinguishing
medium is isolated
All employees not directly
involved in the testing are evacuated from the protected space
Conducting system maintenance
Before conducting maintenance
on a fixed extinguishing system, the employer must ensure that the system
is physically isolated
Using fixed manual
extinguishing systems for fire protection
If fixed manual extinguishing
systems are used to provide fire protection for spaces in which the
employees are working, the employer must ensure that:
Only authorized employees
are allowed to activate the system
Authorized employees are trained
to operate and activate the systems; and
All employees are evacuated
from the protected spaces, and accounted for, before the fixed manual
extinguishing system is activated
Land-side
fire protection systems
29 CFR 1915 - 507
Employer responsibilities
Portable fire
extinguishers and hose systems
Fixed extinguishing
systems
Employer responsibilities
Ensure all fixed and portable
fire protection systems needed to meet OSHA standard for employee safety
or employee protection from fire hazards in land- side facilities meet
the requirements, including, but not limited to:
Buildings
Structures
Equipment
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