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FIRE SAFETY


MACHINERY FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION


Overall, the protective measures that are dealt with in ISO 19353 include:


Inherently safe design measures such as minimising the use of flammable materials and liquids.


Safeguarding/ technical protection measures such as spatial containment (encapsulation).


Complementary protective measures such as integrated fire alarm and extinguishing systems, including:


Pre-fire alarm systems Fire alarm systems


Manually release fire suppression equipment and systems


Automatically released fire suppression systems


User information.


However, the standard does not cover every machine type and is not applicable to:


Mobile machinery.


Machinery designed to contain controlled combustion processes (e.g. internal combustion engines, furnaces), unless these processes can constitute the ignition source of a fire in other parts of the machinery or outside of this.


Machinery used in potentially explosive atmospheres and explosion prevention and protection.


Fire detection and suppression systems that are integrated in building fire safety systems.


Machinery or machinery components manufactured before the date of the Standard’s publication.


It is the responsibility of machinery owners and employers to undertake a risk assessment and evaluate the potential for a fire on the premises. This must be carried out by a suitably competent person and control measures carried out to reduce the risk and effects of fire to as low as reasonably practicable.


It is therefore vital that machinery end users have an appreciation of ISO 19353 as it describes the methods for identifying a machinery fire hazard and how a corresponding risk assessment should be conducted. It also describes the basic concepts and methodology of the technical measures for fire prevention, protection and fire-fighting that should have been taken during the design and construction stages of machinery. Therefore, with knowledge of its application users can be assured that their machine has reached the required level of fire safety according to its intended use, as well as any reasonably foreseeable misuse.


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