Chapter 4 - Accommodation and escape measures
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Chapter 4 - Accommodation and escape measures

Parent topic: Part A - Construction Provisions

4.1 General

  4.1.1 All personnel accommodations should be designed and arranged to protect the occupants from unfavourable environmental conditions and minimize risk of injury during normal (including ice transiting or icebreaking) operations and emergency conditions.

  4.1.2 All personnel accommodations, public spaces and the equipment installed in them should be designed so that each person making proper use of them will not suffer injury during normal open water operations, designed ice transiting modes of operation, and emergency manoeuvring conditions.

  4.1.3 Ships of Polar Classes 1 to 5 inclusive should have sufficiently available and reliable facilities to maintain a life sustaining environment in the event of an emergency and/or of extended ice entrapment.

4.2 Public address systems and other safety items

  4.2.1 The public address system and the general emergency alarm system should be audible over the loudest ambient noise level occurring during ice transiting, ice breaking or ramming.

  4.2.2 Ships of Polar Classes 1 to 3 inclusive, icebreakers and ships intended to be used in the ramming mode should be designed with adequate provisions to ensure the safety of personnel using shower facilities. Such facilities should include non-slip decking, three rigid sides, handholds and insulation from exposed hot water pipes.

  4.2.3 Galley facilities should be provided with grab rails projecting from the front on cooking equipment for use by the crew during ice operations.

  4.2.4 Equipment designed to heat oil for cooking purposes such as deep fat fryers should be located in a position suitably separated from hotplates or other hot surfaces. Such appliances should also be secured to the deck or other fixed structure and provided with an oil tight lid or closure to prevent splashing or spillage during ice operations.

4.3 Escape measures

  4.3.1 All means of escape from accommodation or interior working spaces should not be rendered inoperable by ice accretion or by malfunction due to low external ambient air temperatures.

  4.3.2 All escape routes should be dimensioned so as not to hinder passage for persons wearing suitable Polar clothing.

  4.3.3 Escape routes should be designed to minimize the distance between their exit to an open deck and the survival equipment to which they lead.

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