Extinguishing Equipment

Select, install, inspect, and maintain portable fire extinguishers in accordance with NFPA 10, Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers. Please note that special requirements do exist such as nonferrous components of extinguishers located in MRI rooms and the need for class K extinguishers in kitchen areas. Inspect, test, and maintain all water-based fire protection systems in accordance with NFPA 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems. Facility owners retain responsibility for compliance 

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Provide exterior (and interior) fire extinguishing equipment... 

Does the SAHP provide that Are watehers be trained in the use of Are extinguishing equipment [OSHA Referenee, 252(a)(2)(iii)(B)]... 

Do Are watehers have Are extinguishing equipment readily available ... 

Using the map, the risks involved in the placing of chemical substances on particular shelves, with respect to proximity to exits and automatic extinguishing equipment can be assessed, and can help form decisions as to whether to reposition the substance, or replace it with a lower risk but equivalent compound. 

Caution. Extreme caution must be exercised in working with azide procedures, including use of adequate safety shielding, ready availability of fire extinguishing equipment, and careful attention to directions. 

This involves the clarification of the danger zone in the factory, fire extinguishing equipment, the number of workrooms, the maximum number of workers in a room, the limit on the maximum quantity of explosives allowed in a room, special or exclusive use of a room, equipment, instruments, e.g. for red phosphorus use, for chlorate use etc. 

Thermal expansion joints or fire-extinguishing equipment can cause product buildup and hence a fire hazard. 

It was common practice to have unsupported gas cylinders all over the work area, and fire extinguishing equipment and electrical disconnects were mostly obstructed and sometimes totally inaccessible. Workshop windows were dirty and obscured. Many machine pinch points were unguarded, and bathroom facilities needed a major cleanup. 

In this Section, only the extinguishing equipment that may control small-scale or incipient fires is covered, where the operation needs no special skill. Long-range extinguishing installations used by the fire-brigades are omitted. 

Engineering guidelines produced by Factory Mutual (FM) to help reduce the risk of property loss due to fire, weather, and/or electrical or mechanical equipment failure. They are based on input from loss experience, research results, consensus standards committees, equipment manufacturers, and other interested participants. The subjects covered include construction, sprinklers, water supply, extinguishing equipment, electrical equipment, boilers and industrial heating equipment, hazards, storage, miscellaneous, human factors, systems instrumentation and control, pressure vessels, mechanical, welding, and boiler and machinery. They may also be referred to as FM Global Property Loss Prevention Data Sheets. See also Factory Mutual (FM). 

Location of fire extinguishing equipment, how to use it, and how to report fires. 

From ANSI Standard Z49.1-1967, Fire Watch Duties — Fire watchers must be trained in the use of fire extinguishing equipment. They must know where alarms are in the event of a fire. 

If a fire occurs that could lead to an explosion, extinguishing equipment may put out the fire and prevent an explosion. However, some kinds of extinguishing equipment may add to the potential for explosion in certain situations. For example, equipment that distributes dust into the air in a fire can lead to an explosion. Water streams or extinguisher action may stir up dust. When flame is present, a dust explosion could result. 

Fire protection. All areas used for spraying, including the interior of the booth, shall be protected by automatic sprinklers where this protection is available. Where this protection is not available, other approved automatic extinguishing equipment shall be provided. 

Portable fire extinguishing equipment, suitable for the fire hazard involved, shall be provided at convenient, conspicuously accessible locations in the yard area. Portable fire extinguishers, rated not less than 2A, shall be... 

Fire watchers must have fire-extinguishing equipment readily available and be trained in its use. They should be familiar with facilities for sounding an alarm in the event of a fire. They should watch for fires in all exposed areas and try to extinguish them only when obviously within the capacity of the equipment available otherwise, they should sound the alarm. A fire watch should be maintained for at least a half hour after completion of welding or cutting operations to detect and extinguish possible smoldering fires. 

Fire extinguishers—Suitable fire extinguishing equipment must be maintained in a state of readiness for instant use. Such equipment may consist of pails of water, buckets of sand, hoses, or portable extinguishers, depending on the nature and quantity of the combustible material exposed. 

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