Vietnam: Things to do in fire prevention and fighting work at agencies and organizations

Formulating safety rules

Safety rules for fire prevention and fighting include the following information such as:

- Management and use of fire and heat sources, inflammable and explosive substances, fire, heat generating equipment;

- Prohibited acts according to the provisions of the Law on fire prevention and fighting;

- Regulations on management, storage, maintenance, employment of means, equipment of fire prevention and fighting;

- Things to be done to prevent and fight fire, explosion.

Designing the direction map

Direction map of fire prevention and fighting must present the followings:

- Work items;

- Internal road system;

- Escape path;

- Position of emergency water and fire fighting equipment.

Depending on nature and characteristics of specific operation of the facility, the guiding map of fire prevention and fighting can be made into separate maps to present one or some of the aforesaid information.

Installing prohibition signs, notice signs and guiding signs about fire prevention and fighting

- No fire sign, no smoking sign, no blocking sign, do not use water on fires sign... As for places where explosive materials, LPG, petrol are manufactured, managed, stored and used and other places running high risk of fire, explosion, it is required to set up secondary signs prohibiting carriage and use of sulfur, mobile phone, transmitters and receivers, and other devices likely to generate heat, spark or fire

- Notice signs about materials running risk of fire, explosion;

- Guiding signs about fire prevention and fighting including: escape way sign, fire exit, positions where phones, extinguishers, pillar hydrants, emergency water, mechanical and other fire fighting equipment are stored.

Size, forms of prohibition sign, notice signs and guiding signs about fire prevention and fighting shall follow TCVN 4879: Fire prevention – Safety signs. In case the validity of prohibition sign, notice sign and guiding sign needs to be defined, secondary signs should be set up.

Safety rules, guiding maps, prohibition signs, notice signs and guiding signs about fire prevention and fighting must be disseminated and set up at easy-to-notice places.

View more details at Circular No. 66/2014/TT-BCA of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam.

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