Review of Engine Room Fires and Guide to Fire Prevention

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For seafarers, a fire aboard a ship is one of the most serious problems endangering human lives. Upon learning lessons from fire accidents, IMO and classification societies have been revising their rules and regulations for fire safety. Fires on ships occur in accommodation spaces, cargo spaces and machinery spaces. The occurrence rate of fires in these spaces are nearly equally split. Inter alia, however, fires in machinery spaces, where there are many flammable sources such as oil fules and lubricating oils in bulk, tend to develop into major fires in a short time, once a fire breaks out, involving loss of lives of crew members who failed to evacuate from the scene and with an eventual total loss or loss of self-propelling power. The Society established the Study Committee on the Prevention of Engine Room Fires comprising scholars, shipowners, shipyards and machinery manufactures, which undertook research and studies on engine room fires aboard ships with class in NK and countermeasures. This is a report on the results of the studies.
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