14.4 Personal protection requirements for individual products
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14.4 Personal protection requirements for individual products

  14.4.1 Requirements of this section shall apply to ships carrying products for which those paragraphs are listed in column "i" in the table of chapter 19.

  14.4.2 Suitable respiratory and eye protection for emergency escape purposes shall be provided for every person on board, subject to the following:

  • .1 filter-type respiratory protection is unacceptable;

  • .2 self-contained breathing apparatus shall have at least a duration of service of 15 min; and

  • .3 emergency escape respiratory protection shall not be used for firefighting or cargo-handling purposes and shall be marked to that effect.

  14.4.3 One or more suitably marked decontamination showers and eyewash stations shall be available on deck, taking into account the size and layout of the ship. The showers and eyewashes shall be operable in all ambient conditions.

  14.4.4 The protective clothing required under 14.3.2.2 shall be gastight.

Parent topic: Chapter 14 — Personnel Protection
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