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FIRE AUDIT AND FIRE HAZARD ANALYSIS
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A seminar on 'Fire Audit and Fire Hazard Analysis'
sponsored by Board of Radiation in Nuclear
Sciences (BRNS), was organized on December 21,
2000 at the Multipurpose Hall, BARC Training
School Hostel, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai. About 160
delegates comprising representatives of Mutual Aid
Scheme and Safety Coordinators from BARC/NPC/
AERB participated in the deliberations.
Recently, Dr Anil Kakodkar, Director, BARC, had
opined that there was need for Fire Services Section
to update Fire Audit and Fire Hazard Analysis for all
the installations in BARC with the help of safety
coordinators. In this context, the seminar was a
timely one, specially for the safety coordinators to
get themselves acquainted in the field of analysis.
BARC is the founder member of Mutual Aid
Scheme. The aim of the scheme is to assist each
other in grave fire emergency and disasters.
Presently, it enjoys the membership of
representatives from public and private sectors
totalling twenty-three industries located in the
Chembur-Trombay Industrial Zone.
The Convenor of the Seminar, Mr S.K. Ghosh,
Head, Chemical Engineering Division, BARC,
welcomed the delegates, and, in his introductory
speech, traced the history of Mutual Aid Scheme
spanning thirty years. He stressed the importance
of this scheme in light of the existing chemical,
petrochemical, fertilizers, thermal and nuclear
facilities in the Trombay-Chembur area which made
it a highly sensitive industrial zone.
Mock exercise conducted by Mutual Aid
Scheme members
In its endeavor to be fully prepared for any
eventuality, a mock exercise was organized by
BARC with emphasis on checking the response time
of Fire/Rescue Tenders. The mock situation on
December 12, 2000 involved two vehicles having
caught fire after a collision and the trapping of
persons inside the vehicles at South Gate, BARC
near Tata Electric Company. The action call was
sounded at 11.50 hrs from the Control room of
BARC Fire Services Section, whereby all Mutual Aid
Members were telephonically informed about the
incident.