Fire Protection Measures for Hazardous Chemicals Warehouses
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Fire Protection Measures for Hazardous Chemicals Warehouses
October 31, 2019
Hazardous chemicals warehouses are professional warehouse which store, send and receive chemical raw materials which is flammable, explosive, corrosive, toxic, and store pesticide, fertilizer, Chemical reagent and chemicals. It is type is sorted by nature and scope, be divided into transfer warehouse, Production subsidiary warehouse and storage warehouse; there are thousands of dangerous goods storage in hazardous chemicals warehouse, and if choose Inappropriate place, or Unreasonable layout, or buildings does not meet requirements, or poor management, then it is easy to cause burning, explosion and poisoning, and even causing a serious fire disaster.
So we have to make fire protection measures for hazardous chemicals warehouses, some good measures as below:
According to characteristics of dangerous goods and warehouse conditions, we must set with corresponding fire fighting equipment, facilities and fire extinguishing agents; and should Equipped with trained part-time or full-time firefighters.
Hazardous chemicals warehouses should be set up according to the scope of the warehouse and equipped with adequate fire protection facilities and equipment; There should be fire water sources such as fire pools, fire pipes and fire hydrants. Large-scale dangerous goods warehouse should have a full-time fire brigade, and equipped with fire truck. Fire-fighting equipment should be located in an obvious and accessible location, and can not put other objects around. The fire protection facilities and equipment of the warehouse shall be managed by special personnel, should normally to check, maintain, update, to ensure it is in good condition, it is forbidden to occupy, embed, and misappropriate for various fire facilities and equipment.
The buildings which storage of dangerous goods should install automatic monitoring and fire alarm systems according to warehouse conditions.
The buildings which storage of dangerous goods, if have conditions, should install automatic fire extinguishing systems, such as aerosol systems, foam systems, dry chemical systems, fm200 fire suppression systems and other gaseous systems (Remark: some dangerous goods will get explosion when meet with water).
Hazardous chemicals storage companies should have security organizations. Hazardous chemicals warehouse should have full-time or compulsory firefighters, They should develop a fire fighting plan and often carry out fire training.
Different types of dangerous goods should be storage separately, and we should choose a good fire suppression system for protection, as above mentioned, water system is not suitable for hazardous chemical warehouses, because many chemicals will catch fire or get explosion after they mix with water, so please pay attention to this point.