The Lepel District Department for Emergency Situations reports that in June, department employees conducted a monitoring of the facilities of the State Cultural Institution "Lepel District House of Culture", legal address: Lepel, Svobody Sq., 3, as well as a monitoring of the "Bobrovo-Agro" branch of the closed joint-stock company "Vitebskagroproduct", legal address: Lepel District, ag. Bobrovo.
The Lepel District Department for Emergency Situations reports that in June, department employees conducted a monitoring of the facilities of the State Cultural Institution "Lepel District House of Culture", legal address: Lepel, Svobody Sq., 3, as well as a monitoring of the "Bobrovo-Agro" branch of the closed joint-stock company "Vitebskagroproduct", legal address: Lepel District, ag. Bobrovo.
During the monitoring, the following violations were identified.
At the "Bobrovo-Agro" branch of CJSC "Vitebskagroproduct":
- fire safety briefings for employees have not been organised;
- training of employees responsible for fire safety of the business entity; the employee entrusted with the duties of conducting fire safety briefings; employees responsible for the preparation and (or) conduct of hot work; employees performing work on the harvesting, processing, storage of grain and leguminous crops and coarse fodder according to the fire-technical minimum programs determined by the Ministry of Emergency Situations has not been organised;
Mechanical yard:
- on the outer side of the doors (gates) of the building and premises of the repair and mechanical workshop, categorised by explosion and fire hazard, a category indicator has not been posted;
- the operability and serviceability of fire extinguishing means on the territory of the mechanical yard near the fuel and lubricants warehouse have not been ensured (the recharge date for fire extinguishers has expired);
- the tractor "Belarus 1221.3" state registration number VK-2 9557 (inventory number 8325) is not fully equipped with primary fire extinguishing means, in accordance with clause 21 of the annex to the instruction on the norms of equipping facilities with primary fire extinguishing means, approved by the Decree of the Ministry of Emergency Situations No. 82;
- the entry and operation of a motor vehicle (tanker state registration number AK 7341-2) equipped with an internal combustion engine, without a spark arrestor, is permitted on the territory of the flammable and combustible liquids warehouse;
- on
on the first floor of the repair and mechanical workshop building, there is no fire evacuation plan for people;- timely updating of the fire safety information stand is not organized.
Administrative building:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (external evacuation doors of the administrative building; doors of the smoke-free stairwell; door separating corridors from the repair workshop to the administrative building) do not provide for their free opening from the inside without a key;
- the operability and serviceability of fire protection means are not ensured (the door on the first and second floors of the stairwell is not equipped with a self-closing device);
- the second floor of the administrative building is not fully equipped with primary fire extinguishing means, in accordance with clause 8 of the annex to the instruction on the norms for equipping facilities with primary fire extinguishing means, approved by Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations No. 82;
- evacuation routes and evacuation exits are not marked with fire safety signs provided for by technical normative legal acts.
At the State Cultural Institution "Lepel District House of Culture", Lepel, Svobody Sq., 3:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors located on smoke-free stairwells; rooms with a large number of people (concert hall); external evacuation doors) do not provide for their free opening from the inside without a key;
- a 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing;
- rooms of a self-constructed warehouse (item 13 in the list of technical characteristics), a non-residential premises (item 45 in the list of technical characteristics), a corridor (item 14 in the list of technical characteristics) are not protected by a fire alarm system;
- the variable fire load in the rooms of the self-constructed warehouse (item 13 in the list of technical characteristics), archive (item 51 in the list of technical characteristics), non-residential premises (item 45 in the list of technical characteristics) has not been determined, which makes it impossible to determine the type of fire barriers required to separate the premises, and the corresponding type of filling for openings in them.
State Cultural Institution "Bobrovo Rural House of Culture", ag. Bobrovo, V. Margievich St., 11-1:
- on evacuation routes (exit from the concert hall), a floor level difference (16 centimeters) is allowed without
of the presence of 3 steps or a ramp with a slope not exceeding 1:6;- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with mass occupancy (concert hall), external evacuation doors) are not equipped with the possibility of free opening from the inside without a key;
- the fire evacuation plan does not comply with the requirements of Appendix 2 to the Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations No. 82;
- a 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing.
State Cultural Institution "Borovka Centre of Culture and Leisure", village Borovka:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with mass occupancy (concert hall), external evacuation doors) are not equipped with the possibility of free opening from the inside without a key;
- the operability and serviceability of fire protection means are not ensured (the door on the first and third floors of the stairwell is not equipped with a self-closing device);
- the operability and serviceability of fire extinguishing means are not ensured (valves PK-6 and PK-7 do not turn);
- the operability and serviceability of fire protection means are not ensured (automatic fire alarm systems).
State Cultural Institution "Zaborovye Club-Library", village Zaborovye, Solnechnaya Street:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (external evacuation doors) are not equipped with the possibility of free opening from the inside without a key;
- a 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing.
State Cultural Institution "Starolyadno Rural House of Culture", agro-town Staroye Lyadno, Tsentralnaya Street, bld. 20:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with mass occupancy (concert hall), external evacuation doors) are not equipped with the possibility of free opening from the inside without a key;
- the locations of fire extinguishers are not marked with signs in accordance with the requirements of GOST 12.4.026-2015;
- a 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing.
State Cultural Institution "Polsvizh Rural House of Culture", agro-town Polsvizh, Shkolnaya Street:
- the locations of fire extinguishers are not marked with signs in accordance with the requirements of GOST 12.4.026-2015;
- the fire evacuation plan does not comply with the requirements of Appendix 2 to the Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations No. 82;
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with mass occupancy (concert hall)) are not equipped with the possibility of free opening from the inside without a key;
- 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing.
State Cultural Institution "Slobodskoy Center of Culture and Leisure", agro-town Sloboda, Molodezhnaya St., 27a:
- the fire safety briefing registration log does not comply with the form specified in Appendix 3 to the Instruction on the Procedure for Training Employees on Fire Safety Issues and Verification of Their Knowledge in this Area, approved by Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations No. 82;
- the locations of fire extinguishers are not marked with signs in accordance with the requirements of GOST 12.4.026-2015;
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with a large concentration of people (concert hall), external evacuation doors) do not provide for their free opening from the inside without a key;
- 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing.
State Cultural Institution "Yurkovschinsky Club-Library", village Yurkovschina, Zapadnaya St.:
- there is no fire evacuation plan for people in the club building;
- the locations of fire extinguishers are not marked with signs in accordance with the requirements of GOST 12.4.026-2015;
- evacuation exits are not marked with fire safety signs as required by technical regulatory legal acts;
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with a large concentration of people (concert hall), external evacuation doors) do not provide for their free opening from the inside without a key.
State Cultural Institution "Kamensky Rural House of Culture", agro-town Kamen, Leningradskaya St., 25a:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with a large concentration of people (concert hall), external evacuation doors) do not provide for their free opening from the inside without a key;
- the locations of fire extinguishers are not marked with signs in accordance with the requirements of GOST 12.4.026-2015;
- on evacuation routes (exit from the concert hall), there is a floor level difference (14 centimeters) without three steps or a ramp with a slope not exceeding 1:6.
State Cultural Institution "Chereyshchinsky Rural House of Culture", agro-town Chereyshchina, Tsentralnaya St., 7:
- locks on doors located on evacuation routes (doors, premises with a large concentration of people (concert hall); external evacuation doors; door of a smoke-free stairwell) do not provide for their free opening from the inside without a key;
- the locations of fire extinguishers are not marked with
- pointers in accordance with the requirements of GOST 12.4.026-2015;
- the operability and serviceability of fire protection means are not ensured (the door of the evacuation exit of the first floor of the stairwell is not equipped with a self-closing device);
- a 10% reserve of fire detectors is missing.
In buildings equipped with a fire alarm system, a check of the serviceability and operability of the systems was carried out together with representatives of the servicing organisations. No violations were identified during the work performed.
Evacuation plans for fire or other emergency situations were practiced with the employees of the organisations, and briefings on fire safety rules were also conducted.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations reminds that in accordance with Article 20 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Fire Safety", the heads of organisations must ensure fire safety and fire prevention measures in their respective organisations.