S.L. 499.12 Art. 78Safety and fire/ emergency requirements.

An operator shall, within intervals specified in this regulation and in compliance with the requirements of the Relevant

Instruments, accomplish and thereafter maintain the following resource provisions, administration, training and procedural requirements:

(1) adequate quantities of water for both fire-fighting and boundary/adjacent area cooling, and effective means of application, shall be available for immediate use both within a marine terminal or facility and at the berths or jetties;

(2) adequate quantities and types of fire-fighting foam approved by the Authority and effective means of application, shall be available for immediate use both within a marine terminal/facility and at the berths or jetties;

(3) where appropriate, adequate quantities and types of firefighting Dry Powder (Potasium-based preferred for terminals handling LPG/LNG gases) and other appropriate approved fire-extinguishing media, and effective means of application, shall be available for immediate use both within a marine terminal/facility and at the berths or jetties;

(4) all fire-fighting, emergency, safety equipment and their operational ancillaries, including pumps. compressors and generators, must be tested at regular intervals not exceeding one month;

(5) when the terminal/facility is active, an operator shall ensure the presence of an adequate number of personnel who have been fully trained in the effective prevention and combating of the types of fires and other hazards possible in their operations;

(6) such personnel, referred to in paragraph (5), shall also undertake appropriate 'refresher' courses at the intervals recommended by the recognised training organisations;

(7) an operator shall comply with all the requirements contained in regulation 65(1)(o) with respect to all fire-fighting degradeable media;

(8) an operator shall conduct regular and periodical emergency response and oil and hazardous noxious substances pollution response exercises, as approved by the Authority and in compliance with the Emergency Response Planning (ERP) Guidelines issued by the Authority, whilst utilising his own resources and personnel, as follows:

(a) at least once every three (3) months, drills for emergency response and, or oil and hazardous noxious substances pollution response;

(b) at least once every twelve (12) months, a full-scale emergency response exercise or one (1) combined emergency response and oil and hazardous noxious substances pollution response exercise.

(9) such drills shall include the actual usage or testing of all equipment and systems by both designated and alternate personnel, in as near emergency conditions' as possible;

(10) a communications log, in a written or tape-recorded form, shall be maintained throughout such drills, to record all communications;

(11) an operator shall identify within his terminal/facility, a 'control centre', together with an alternate, from where all firefighting/emergency/safety operations are overall controlled and co-ordinated;

(12) during emergency situations or drills, such a 'control centre' shall be manned by adequate number of properly trained personnel having complete knowledge of all contingency plans, operational and emergency equipment and systems, including backup and alternate resources;

(13) such 'control centre' personnel shall be provided with efficient and effective primary and secondary communication systems (if these are VHF or similar, they must have 'private' dedicated channels), for liaising with and controlling all efforts within the terminal/facility, on board ships at the terminal/ facility’s moorings, berths or jetties, at other such adjacent places and with external emergency resources;

(14) where internal terminal/facility telephone systems are used for 'control centre' purposes, communications shall be capable of being over- ridden by the person in overall charge of emergency operations;

(15) in the case of a large terminal/facility or where moorings, berths or jetties are some distance from the terminal or facility, the operator shall also establish an emergency 'forward control' unit to be in local charge of operations at the scene of the incident, in full liaison with the 'control centre';

(16) the 'forward control' unit, shall consist of adequate numbers of properly trained personnel having complete knowledge of all the contingency plans, operational and emergency equipment and systems, including back-up and alternate resources;

(17) such 'forward control' personnel shall be supplied with adequate types and quantities of efficient and effective resources for dealing with any potential consequences of the most environmentally hazardous operations that can be undertaken at such places and be also provided with primary and secondary communications systems fully compatible with those of the 'control centre';

(18) operators shall assign 'call-signs' to different units of their emergency-response teams and such 'call-signs' shall be used in all emergency-response and drill communications;

(19) in addition to the drills referred in paragraph (8), all such operators shall fully participate in all joint pollution-response exercises which may be organised by the Authority from time to time, in conjunction with other concerned agencies and services;

(20) the operator shall compile adequate and effective safety, emergency and fire-fighting contingency plans, covering the most hazardous incidents that can occur at the marine terminal or facility or its moorings, berths and jetties:

(21) such plants as described in paragraph (20) must take into account both the resources of the operator and those of the local related Agencies and emergency services;

(22) an operator shall provide safety equipment, such as adequate quantities and types of fire-fighting personnel protection suits, water-spray diffuser nozzles for providing personnel protective water barriers, self-contained breathing apparatus and stretchers and their use included in all drills and exercises;

(23) an operator shall comply with all the requirements contained in regulation 65(1)(l) to (o) with respect to all fire-fighting, safety and emergency equipment;

(24) an operator shall ensure that at least once every twelve months all portable fire-extinguishers used anywhere within his installations are either examined or tested to establish their continued effectiveness by an organisation recognised by the Authority. The testing organisation shall verify same by clearly and indelibly marking each such extinguisher;

(25) an operator shall make arrangements, at his own risk and expense, with a tug company recognised by the Authority for the provision of an 'on-call' service whereby a ship moored at his terminal/facility may be quickly towed clear of such place dunging emergency situations occurring either at such terminal/ facility or on board the ship;

(26) an operator shall make arrangements, at his own risk and expense, with organisations recognised by the Authority for the provision of an 'on-call' service whereby 'water-side' firefighting assistance (including boundary cooling) shall be quickly provided to ships moored at his moorings' berths or jetties;

(27) an operator shall provide to the Authority full details of any arrangement referred to in paragraphs (25) and

(26) and such arrangements shall ever remain effective;

(28) an operator shall comply with all the requirements contained in regulation 77, with respect to all fire-fighting, safety and emergency equipment and systems;

(29) an operator shall compile and conspicuously and permanently display in weather-tight enclosures immediately inside the terminal/facility entrances and exits, clear detailed descriptions and plans of all means of emergency exits, for the use of personnel from external organisations; assisting in an incident;

(30) if in case of an emergency the only means of escape for crew members aboard a ship is through the terminal/facility, any description and plan, referred to in paragraph (29), shall also be in the same manner displayed at berths or jetties;

(31) such descriptions and plans as detailed in paragraph (29), shall be promulgated to external organisations referred to in regulation 77(c);

(32) an operator shall cause retro-reflective or luminous indicators to be conspicuously and permanently displayed at salient points within the terminal/facility, indicating the simplest and safest direction of exit during an emergency situation;

(33) at a terminal/facility where ships are moored on long breakwater or finger berths, an operator shall provide permanent and easily accessible means of transverse escape to a safe area clear of such berths (e.g. fixed ladders giving access over to the other side of a berth's protective wall);

(34) an operator shall ensure that all vehicles parked within the terminal/facility or on its berths and jetties, shall have their doors left unlocked and ignition keys in place if in an area which may impede entry or exit in an emergency situation;

(35) at liquefied gas terminals, the operator shall ensure the effective spark arresters are efficiently fitted to the exhausts of all vehicles prior entering the terminal storage or handling areas and remain so fitted until the vehicles leave;

(36) an operator shall compile and cause to be permanently displayed in weather-tight enclosures clearly visible from the location of the starting and control gear of all fire-fighting equipment (including fire-pumps, fixed foam and other media firefighting systems and emergency electrical generators) clear detailed instructions and illustrations of the means of operating same;

(37) an operator shall ensure that all equipment and machinery used, or which may be used within any danger area aboard a ship using the terminal/facility mooring, berth or jetty, or within any hazardous zone ashore, are certified as intrinsically safe for the operations which may be undertaken at such places;

(38) an operator shall also ensure that such equipment, referred to in paragraph (37), remains intrinsically safe and any equipment which may have become impaired is either replaced or re-certified by the manufacturer or an organisation recognised by the Authority.