RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of August 22, 2019 No. 560

About approval of specific requirements

Based on Item 2 of general requirements of fire safety to content and operation of capital structures (buildings, constructions), the isolated rooms and other objects belonging to subjects of managing, approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of November 23, 2017 No. 7, Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus DECIDES:

1. Approve specific requirements for ensuring fire safety in courts of inland water transport (are applied).

2. Grant to the Ministry of Emergency Situations the right to explain questions of application of specific requirements for ensuring fire safety in the courts of inland water transport approved by this resolution.

3. This resolution becomes effective in three months after its official publication.

Approved by the Resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of August 22, 2019 No. 560

Specific requirements for ensuring fire safety in courts of inland water transport

Chapter 1. General provisions

1. These specific requirements establish requirements for ensuring fire safety in courts of inland water transport (further - vessels) during their operation, preparation for repair, repair and sediment.

These specific requirements are developed according to Item 2 of general requirements of fire safety to content and operation of capital structures (buildings, constructions), the isolated rooms and other objects belonging to subjects of managing and are obligatory for observance by legal entities (heads, officials and workers) and individual entrepreneurs.

2. The responsibility for violation and (or) failure to carry out of these specific requirements is established according to the legislation.

3. For the purposes of these specific requirements terms and their determinations in the values established by general requirements of fire safety to content and operation of capital structures (buildings, constructions), the isolated rooms and other objects belonging to subjects of managing, the Code of inland water transport of the Republic of Belarus are applied.

Chapter 2. Organizational and technical actions for ensuring fire safety

4. Responsibility for ensuring fire safety of courts is born:

the head of the organization performing operation of courts (shipowner);

the ship master (the commander, the skipper) - on each separate vessel during its operation;

the head of the organization on which objects repair and sediment of courts are performed, - during their repair and sediment.

5. Ensuring fire safety of the courts taken out of service and which are on repair or sediment is assigned to the officials responsible for repair and sediment of courts.

6. Control of fire-proof condition of courts is exercised by the shipowner.

7. The head of the organization performing operation of courts (shipowner) shall:

set fire prevention regime for courts (to equip smoking areas, to determine procedure for carrying out hot and repair work, survey and closing of rooms after completion of works, cleaning of combustible waste, use of electric heaters and another);

provide servicing and timely repair of means of fire protection and fire extinguishing, ventilating and heating systems, the lightning protection and grounding devices, means of communication, notifications, other systems and devices;

organize development of instruction sheets on fire safety for passengers and the all-object instruction on fire safety proceeding from features of fire risk of certain rooms, sites and processes.

8. The captain (the commander, the skipper) of the vessel shall:

control serviceable condition of the processing, electrotechnical and transport equipment, systems of heating and ventilation, lightning protection, the grounding devices of protection of electric motors and other equipment, to take measures for immediate elimination of the available defects;

control observance by all crew members (passengers) of the set fire prevention regime;

determine operations procedure of each crew member in case of the fire;

provide development and representation on approval to the shipowner of the all-object instruction on fire safety (further - the all-object instruction), the plan of evacuation of people in case of the fire, to hold in every half-year practical trainings on its working off;

not allow to work of persons which did not undergo fire-proof instructing;

not allow work on the vessel third parties without taking measures to ensuring fire safety.

9. Persons responsible for fire-proof condition of rooms (sites) of the vessel shall:

provide observance in entrusted rooms (sites) of the set fire prevention regime;

know fire risk of the substances and materials used in rooms (sites) and to provide their application and storage according to these specific requirements, requirements technical normative legal and regulatory legal acts;

know instructions for use the available means of fire protection and fire extinguishing, means of communication and notifications, and also to provide their operability and working capacity, about the found violations of requirements of fire safety and defects of the specified means to immediately report the captain (the commander, the skipper) and to take measures for their elimination.

10. The crew of the vessel shall carry out actions for ensuring fire safety of the vessel under all conditions of its operation.

11. Each crew member shall:

nobility and observe requirements of fire safety, provision of the fire prevention regime set for the vessel and the all-object instruction;

be able to apply the means of fire protection and fire extinguishing which are available on the vessel.

12. In the presence of violations of these specific requirements, normative technical requirements legal and regulatory legal acts release of the vessel in flight is not allowed.

13. The captain (the commander, the skipper) together with the first officer (the commander, the skipper) and the mechanic shall at least once a month perform fire-proof condition of the vessel, operability of means of fire protection and fire extinguishing and the respiratory isolating devices.

14. Results of the check specified in Item of 13 presents of specific requirements register in the logbook of the vessel with indication of persons responsible for elimination of the found shortcomings.

15. On the vessel access to crew members to all closed rooms shall be provided at any time. For each lock on the vessel there shall be two sets of keys, one of which shall be stored at the log chief.

16. The all-object instruction and operational documentation developed for the vessel shall be based on these specific requirements, normative technical requirements legal and regulatory legal acts. The all-object instruction and the specified documents shall be in the respective rooms (sites) of the vessel.

17. The all-object instruction shall be reviewed periodically taking into account change of fire-proof condition of the vessel and the corresponding orders of higher bodies of management at least once in three years.

18. The shipowner and the captain (the commander, the skipper) is not allowed to see off on the re-planning vessel, to change functional purpose of rooms without development of the project documentation.

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