Analysis of regulatory requirements for fire extinguishers placed on ships

Fires on ships pose a great danger both for the ship itself and for the ecology of the water area and sports, which is why the prompt extinguishing of a fire on a ship is an urgent task. This paper is devoted to the assessment of the actual situation of standardization of requirements on placement and mass of charge of the fire extinguishers placed on vessels. A comparative analysis of domestic and international regulatory documents regulating the equipping of vessels with primary fire extinguishing equipment was carried out. The main attention is focused on the influence of the mass of fire extinguishing agents of primary fire extinguishing agents on the number of fires on sea vessels. The average value of the required mass of fire extinguishing agents and the number of protected premises on Russian and foreign vessels has been calculated in the paper. The analysis of fire statistics on maritime transport over the past 10 years confirms the correlation between the number of fires and the average mass of fire extinguishing agents. The number of fires on domestic sea vessels is significantly lower (9.6 times) than on foreign ships, this is confirmed by more strict and specific requirements of Russian regulatory documents regulating the equipping of the shipboard spaces with primary fire extinguishing equipment. Based on the analysis of fires on sea vessels and documents regulating the equipping by primary fire extinguishing equipment, there was determined the effectiveness of the method of equipping the vessels by primary fire extinguishing equipment.