18 DE ABR1L DE 1998

1044-(203)

mical powder applicants; general outline of required and available mobile apparatus; high pressure fog system; high expansion foam; new developments and equipment;

10.2) Firefighter's outfit, personal equipment; breathing apparatus; resuscitation apparatus; smoke helmet or mask; fireproof life-line and harness; and their location on board; and

10.3) General equipment including fire hoses, nozzles, connections, fire axes; portable fire extinguishers; fire blankets;

11) Construction and arrangements including escape routes; means for gas freeing tanks; class A, 13 and C divisions; inert gas systems;

12) Ship fire-fighting organization, including general alarm; fire control plans, muster stations and duties of individuals; communications, including ship-shore when in port; personnel safety procedures; periodic shipboard drills; patrol systems;

13) Practical knowledge of resuscitation methods;

14) Fire-fighting methods including sounding the alarm; locating and isolating; jettisoning; inhibiting; cooling; smothering; extinguishing; reflash watch; smoke extraction; and

15) Fire-fighting agents including water, solid jet, spray, fog, flooding; foam, high, medium and low expansion; carbon dioxide (co2); halon; aqueous film forming foam (AFFF); dry chemical powder; new developments and equipment.

Practical training

3 — The practical training given below should take place in spaces which provide truly realistic training conditions (e. g. simulated shipboard conditions), and whenever possible and practical should also be carried out in darkness as well as by daylight and should allow the trainees to acquire the ability to:

1) Use various types of portable fire extinguishers;

2) Use self-contained breathing apparatus;

3) Extinguish smaller fires, e. g. electrical fires, oil fires and propane fires;

4) Extinguish extensive fires with water (jet and spray nozzles);

5) Extinguish fires with either foam, powder or any other suitable chemical agent;

6) Enter and pass through, with life-line but without breathing apparatus, a compartment into which high expansion foam has been injected;

7) Fight fire in smoke-filled enclosed spaces wearing self-cnnt.o;ned breathing apparatus;

8) Extin,, rish fire with water fog, or any other suitable fire-fighting cjeni in an accommodation room or simulated engine-ro».m with fire and heavy smoke;

9) Exuiig-iish an oil fire with fog applicator and spray nozzles; dry cii^mia.1 powder or foam applicators;

10) Effect a rescue in a smoke-filled space wearing breathing apparatus.

General

4 — Trainees should also be made aware of the necessity of maintaining a state of readiness on board.

Elementary first aid

5 — The training in elementary first aid required by regulation VI/1 as part of the basic training should be given at an early stage in vocational training, preferably during pre-sea training, to enable seafarers to take

immediate action upon encountering an accident or other medical emergency until the arrival of a person With first aid skills or the person in charge of medical care on board.

Personal safety and social responsibilities

6 — Administrations should bear in mind the significance of communication and language skills in maintaining safety of life and property at sea and in preventing marine pollution. Given the international character of the maritime industry, the reliance on voice communications from ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore, the increasing use of multi-national crews, and the concern that crew members should be able to communicate with passengers in an emergency, adoption of a common language for maritime communications would promote safe practice by reducing the risk of human error .in communication essential information.

7 — Although not universal, by common practice English is rapidly becoming the standard language of communication for maritime safety purposes, partly as a result of the use of the Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary, as replaced by the IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases.

8 — Administrations should consider the benefits of ensuring that seafarers have an ability to use at least an elementary English vocabulary, with an emphasis on nautical terms and situations.

SECTION B-VI/2

Guidance regarding certification for proficiency in survival craft, rescue boats and fast rescue boats

1 — Before training is commenced the requirement of medical fitness, particularly regarding eyesight and hearing, should be met by the candidate.

2 — The training should be relevant to the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), as amended.

SECTION B-VI/3

Guidance regarding training in advanced fire-fighting

(No provisions.)

SECTION B-VI/4

Guidance regarding requirements in medical first aid and medical care

(No provisions.)

CHAPTER VII Guidance regarding alternative certification

SECTION B-VII/1 Guidance regarding the issue of alternative certificates

(No provisions.)

SECTION B-VII/2 Guidance regarding certification of seafarers

(No provisions.)