8.2.1 Fire prevention
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8.2.1 Fire prevention

  .1 Where necessary, fuel oil and lubricating oil pipelines should be screened or otherwise suitably protected to avoid as far as is practicable oil spray or oil leakages on hot surfaces or into machinery air intakes. The number of joints in such piping systems should be kept to a minimum. Special consideration should be given to high pressure fuel oil pipes; where practicable, leakages from such piping systems should be collected and should activate an alarm.

  .2 Where daily service fuel oil tanks are filled automatically, means should be provided to eliminate overflow spillages. Similar consideration should be given to other equipment automatically treating flammable liquids, e.g. oil fuel purifiers, which whenever practicable should be installed in a special space reserved for purifiers and their heaters.

  .3 Where oil fuel daily service tanks or settling tanks are fitted with heating arrangements, a high temperature alarm should be provided if there is a risk that the flashpoint of the oil fuel may be exceeded.

Parent topic: 8.2 Fire safety
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