8.1 Personnel alarm
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8.1 Personnel alarm

  8.1.1 The personnel alarm should automatically set off an alarm on the navigation bridge or in the officers’ quarters, as appropriate, and, if it is not reset from the machinery spaces in a period satisfactory to the Administration, this should be in a period not exceeding 30 min.

  8.1.2 A pre-warning signal should be provided in the machinery spaces which operates 3 min before the alarm required by 8.1.1 is given.

  8.1.3 The alarm system should be put into operation:

  • .1 automatically when the engineer on duty has to attend machinery spaces in case of a machinery alarm; or

  • .2 manually by the engineer on duty when attending machinery spaces on routine checks.

  8.1.4 The alarm system should be disconnected by the engineer on duty after leaving the machinery spaces. When the system is brought into operation in accordance with 8.1.3.1, disconnection should not be possible before the engineer has acknowledged the alarm in the machinery spaces.

  8.1.5 The personnel alarm may also operate the engineers’ alarm.

Parent topic: 8 Requirements for Particular Alarms
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