The joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign on Fire Safety arranged by the Paris, Tokyo and Indian Ocean Mou’s has now been in progress for a month.Class DNV has prepared a list, which includes the preliminary results seen on DNV class ships.

During this relatively short period, there have been four detentions of DNV-classed ships due to fire-safety-related deficiencies as listed in tables A (detainable items) and B (non-detainable items).                    

As a risk-reduction measure, we recommend that the items covered by the DNV CIC checklist are carefully checked as soon as possible and kept up to standard at all times.  

Moreover,according to the information from ClassNK until 20 Sep., some vessels were detained with the major deficiency “Officers not familiar with Fire Drill”.

Fire Drill required at PSC inspection was assumed the scenario of fire at Engine Room and the thorough process of fire fighting for the initial to the final phases including a simulated operation of fixed fire extinguishing system like CO2 system, etc.

Therefore, we would suggest to review the following:

– Whether the Scenario of fire drill applied onboard includes the above mentioned one.
– Frequency of fire drill which covers thorough process for the initial to the final phases.

Source:DNV , ClassNK