NFPA 600 Standard on Industrial Fire Brigades
NFPA 600 企業消防隊標準
1-1.1 This standard contains minimum requirements for organizing, operating, training, and equipping industrial fire brigades. It also contains minimum requirements for the occupational safety and health of industrial fire brigade members while performing fire fighting and related activities.
1-1.2* This standard shall apply to any organized, private, industrial group of employees having fire fighting response duties, such as emergency brigades, emergency response teams, fire teams, and plant emergency organizations.
1-1.3* This standard shall not apply to industrial fire brigades that respond to fire emergencies outside the boundaries of the industrial site when the off-site fire involves unfamiliar hazards or enclosed structures with layout and contents that are unknown to the industrial fire brigade.
1-1.4 This standard shall not apply to medical response, confined space rescue response, and hazardous material response activities.
Establish your fire brigade according to industry best practices presented in the 2010 NFPA 600.
This Standard presents requirements for organizing, operating, training, and equipping industrial fire brigades. NFPA 600 Standard on Industrial Fire Brigades also contains requirements for the occupational safety and health of industrial fire brigade members while performing fire fighting and related activities.
Topics covered that apply to all industrial fire brigades include
· Education, training, and drills
· Organization
· Medical and job-related physical requirements
· Equipment
· Apparatus
In addition, NFPA 600 also provides specific requirements for industrial fire brigades that perform
· Incipient stage fire fighting
· Advanced exterior fire fighting only
· Interior structural fire fighting only
· Advanced exterior and interior structural fire fighting
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