FSS Code - Fire Safety Systems 2015

The purpose of this Code is to provide international standards of specific engineering specifications for fire safety systems required by chapter II -2 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended. This edition also includes IMO resolutions and circulars relevant to the Code. This publication assists shipowners, operators, shipyards, classification societies and Administrations.

This publication presents engineering specifications for fire safety equipment and systems required by SOLAS chapter II-2 concerning:

• international shore connections
• personnel protection
• fire extinguishers
• fixed gas fire-extinguishing systems
• fixed foam fire-extinguishing systems
• fixed pressure water-spraying and water-mist fire-extinguishing systems
• fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems
• automatic sprinkler, fire detection and fire alarm systems
• sample extraction smoke detection systems
• low-location lighting systems
• fixed emergency fire pumps
• arrangement of means of escape
• fixed deck foam systems
• inert gas systems
• fixed hydrocarbon gas detection systems.
• IMO ref IB155
• 3rd edition, 2015

ISBN 9789280116014

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