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Ship Fire Prevention - ANSWER ✔✔Ship design and construction
-steel/fire retardant materials
-subdivisions
-fire protection systems
Good housekeeping practices important
Number 1 cause of fire - ANSWER ✔✔CARELESS SMOKING HABITS!!!
- DISPOSAL
- SMOKING IN BED
- DISREGARD FOR RESTRICTED AREAS
• POOR HOUSEKEEPING
- Dirty/oily machinery
- Clothes drier lint accumulation
- Improper, non-secured storage
Examples of poor housekeeping practices - ANSWER ✔✔-Complacency about
fire safety on the job
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,-careless disposal of smoking materials
-defective electrical components
-spillage of flammable materials
-careless work habits
Fire Triangle - ANSWER ✔✔fuel, oxygen, heat
All of these components are necessary for a fire to occur The removal of any one
component will cause the fire to be extinguished
Fire Tetrahedron - ANSWER ✔✔Heat, Fuel, Oxygen, Chemical Chain Reaction
All of these components are necessary for a fire to occur The removal of any one
component will cause the fire to be extinguished
Heat - ANSWER ✔✔Anything that produces the required temperature for
ignition will satisfy this leg of the triangle
- Sun
- Open Flame
- Chemical Reaction
- Sparks
- Friction
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, - Static Electricity
- Biological Processes
Oxygen - ANSWER ✔✔The Earth's atmosphere consists of 21% oxygen
Because fire needs oxygen to burn, the amount of oxygen available to it controls
the rate at which it burns
Fuel - ANSWER ✔✔Only vapors burn
• Liquids & solids are too dense and must first be vaporized
• The tendency of a substance to vaporize is an indication of its ability to burn.
• Liquids vaporize more readily than solids
• Gases are already in a vapor state
Chain Reaction - ANSWER ✔✔You can have Oxygen - Heat - Fuel in the same
place at the same time and still not have a fire (explain)
• FUEL - OXYGEN relationship must be balanced, i.e., must be in the Flammable
Range
• Heat must be sufficient to bring fuel to its "Ignition Temperature"
To Stop a Fire - ANSWER ✔✔• remove the fuel
• remove the heat
• remove the oxygen
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Ship Fire Prevention - ANSWER ✔✔Ship design and construction
-steel/fire retardant materials
-subdivisions
-fire protection systems
Good housekeeping practices important
Number 1 cause of fire - ANSWER ✔✔CARELESS SMOKING HABITS!!!
- DISPOSAL
- SMOKING IN BED
- DISREGARD FOR RESTRICTED AREAS
• POOR HOUSEKEEPING
- Dirty/oily machinery
- Clothes drier lint accumulation
- Improper, non-secured storage
Examples of poor housekeeping practices - ANSWER ✔✔-Complacency about
fire safety on the job
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,-careless disposal of smoking materials
-defective electrical components
-spillage of flammable materials
-careless work habits
Fire Triangle - ANSWER ✔✔fuel, oxygen, heat
All of these components are necessary for a fire to occur The removal of any one
component will cause the fire to be extinguished
Fire Tetrahedron - ANSWER ✔✔Heat, Fuel, Oxygen, Chemical Chain Reaction
All of these components are necessary for a fire to occur The removal of any one
component will cause the fire to be extinguished
Heat - ANSWER ✔✔Anything that produces the required temperature for
ignition will satisfy this leg of the triangle
- Sun
- Open Flame
- Chemical Reaction
- Sparks
- Friction
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, - Static Electricity
- Biological Processes
Oxygen - ANSWER ✔✔The Earth's atmosphere consists of 21% oxygen
Because fire needs oxygen to burn, the amount of oxygen available to it controls
the rate at which it burns
Fuel - ANSWER ✔✔Only vapors burn
• Liquids & solids are too dense and must first be vaporized
• The tendency of a substance to vaporize is an indication of its ability to burn.
• Liquids vaporize more readily than solids
• Gases are already in a vapor state
Chain Reaction - ANSWER ✔✔You can have Oxygen - Heat - Fuel in the same
place at the same time and still not have a fire (explain)
• FUEL - OXYGEN relationship must be balanced, i.e., must be in the Flammable
Range
• Heat must be sufficient to bring fuel to its "Ignition Temperature"
To Stop a Fire - ANSWER ✔✔• remove the fuel
• remove the heat
• remove the oxygen
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