Emergency Preparedness: Fire Protection, Detection and Extinction

Proficiency in ensuring compliance with the SOLAS fire safety requirements is essential for deck and technical officers on merchant navy ships and super yachts.

The questions and answers in this book will help you master the functional and carriage requirements for fire safety systems on international ships.

This book covers essential topics to help you build confidence in preparing decisive answers for STCW oral examination. Topics covered include the following aspects of SOLAS II-2 and the FFS Code:

• Provision and use of firefighting appliances
• fire theory and SOLAS fire safety objectives
• training and drills
• inspections and maintenance.

Competence in fire safety is mandatory under STCW AII/1 and AII/2 syllabi for officers on ships of over 500 GT.

Repeated self-testing using these questions and answers will help you prepare confident and decisive answers on FFA for your STCW oral exam.

All officers require competence in these topics to monitor their ship's compliance with statutory requirements effectively.

Other titles in the Orals Preps Series:

• Orals Prep Series 1. Statutory Certificates, Documents and Surveys
• Orals Prep Series 2. International Safety and Risk Management
• Orals Prep Series 3. Maritime Security: Responsibilities and Requirements under the ISPS Code
• Orals Prep Series 4. Emergency Preparedness: Life-saving Appliances

About the Author

Gerard Pollock's career has given him broad nautical experience augmented by specialisms in maritime regulation.

Gerard first went to sea in 1998 as a cadet with the Conway Merchant Navy Trust before joining BP, with whom he sailed on VLCC, coastal, LNG and DP shuttle tankers.

He then moved on to large superyachts as the ISM Code became mandatory and helped implement the culture change in this sector, followed by stints on passenger ships, including the QE2 and the MY Wind Surf. After a protracted newbuild project, Gerard held command of a large, prestigious yacht with one of the industry's prominent owners.

In 2017, Gerard moved ashore, becoming a Flag/Port State Control Inspector with New Zealand's maritime regulator. He is an ISM Auditor and PSC trainer/assessor and has led international PSC training seminars on behalf of the Tokyo MOU.

Gerard recently worked as an advisor within an international aid programme that assists Pacific Island countries in improving their maritime safety systems.

Gerard now runs a UK maritime compliance and training consultancy and works with superyachts and maritime companies.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Questions

Part 2 Questions and Answers