1 The Maritime Safety Committee at its fiftieth
session noted that regulation II-2/20.2 of
the 1974 SOLAS Convention as amended requires a duplicate set of fire
control plans or a booklet containing such plans to be permanently
stored in a prominently marked weathertight enclosure outside the
deckhouse for the assistance of shoreside fire brigades.
2 The Committee has confirmed the importance of
providing such information on fire control plans to be readily available
on board for the guidance in an emergency of shoreside fire-fighting
personnel, and also to co-ordinate the action to be taken in co-operation
with the ships crew who will have a more intimate knowledge and experience
of facilities for fire-fighting available on board.
3 The Maritime Safety Committee at its fifty-third
session approved the guidance concerning the location of fire control
plans for the assistance of shoreside fire-fighting personnel (attached
in the annex), and Member Governments are invited to use this guidance
in the location of fire control plans on their ships, as early as
possible.