Vietnam’s regulations on fire prevention and fighting for houses and vehicles

Fire prevention for dwelling houses and population quarters:

- Dwelling houses must be arranged with electric systems, kitchens and worshiping places in a way to ensure safety;

- Inflammables and explosives must be kept far away from flame and heat sources;

- Facilities and means must be readied for fire fighting.

Villages, hamlets as well as urban quarters shall have to work out regulations and rules on fire prevention and fighting, the use of electricity, flame, inflammables and explosives; to map out fire-prevention solutions; to elaborate plans, prepare forces and means for fire prevention and fighting; to build passages and water sources in service of fire prevention and fighting.

Fire prevention for motorized transport means:

According to the Law on fire prevention and fighting 2001 of Vietnam:

- Motorized transport means with 4 seats or more and those transporting goods, dangerous inflammables and/or explosives must satisfy the conditions prescribed by the State bodies in charge of fire prevention and fighting.

- For motorized transport means subject to particular requirements on ensuring the fire prevention and fighting safety, the registries shall issue inspection registration certificates for them only after they are certified by the State bodies in charge of fire prevention and fighting as having been fully qualified; the building or renovation of such means must be approved in terms of their designs.

- Motorized transport means of international organizations, foreign organizations or individuals, when entering Vietnamese territory, must ensure fire prevention and fighting safety conditions as prescribed by Vietnamese law.

Fire prevention for factories, enterprises, warehouses, working offices, hospitals, schools, theaters, hotels, markets, trade centers, armed forces’s camps and other projects:

- Having regulations and rules on fire prevention and fighting safety;

- Having measures for fire prevention;

- Having fire-alarming, -fighting and -insulating systems suited to the nature of the establishments operations;

- Having forces, means and other conditions meeting the requirements on fire prevention and fighting;

- Having plans for fire fighting, escape, rescue of people and properties and against fire spread;

- Earmarking fund for fire prevention and fighting activities;

- Having dossiers for monitoring and managing fire prevention and fighting activities.

View details at the Law on fire prevention and fighting 2001 of Vietnam, effective from October 04, 2001.

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