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The Maritime Safety Committee

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-fourth session (30 May to 8 June 2001), recognizing the need for improving fire safety on board ships by the development of a simplified calculation for the total amount of combustible materials per unit area in accommodation and service spaces, agreed with the recommendation made by the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection that:

  • .1 calculation for the total amount of combustible materials per unit area in accommodation and service spaces may be performed using the formula contained in the attached annex; and

  • .2 mandatory application of the calculation for the total amount of combustible materials per unit area in accommodation and service spaces could be further considered when sufficient experience is gained in the application of the Guidelines,

and approved Guidelines on a simplified calculation for the total amount of combustible materials per unit area in accommodation and service spaces, as set out in the annex.

  2 Member Governments are invited to:

  • .1 use the annexed Guidelines when considering the calculation for the total amount of combustible materials per unit area in accommodation and service spaces as an improved means of fire safety; and

  • .2 submit to the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection information on experience gained in the implementation of the Guidelines.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.1003 – Guidelines on a Simplified Calculation for the Total Amount of Combustible Materials per Unit Area in Accommodation and Service Spaces – (Adopted on 8 June 2001)
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