Fire Safety Training

On 18 May 2017, there was a scheduled fire safety training for staff at Izolyator plant facilities.

Civil defense expert Boris Sobelman delivered the training to Izolyator team members.

The training was organized at two locations: at the insulation saturation and polymerization station of Insulation making shop and at the open ground on the plant territory.

At Location 1, they had a practical exercise with the workers of the duty shifts of the plant. They were tasked with duty services coordination exercise — for situations of fire outbreaks on process equipment. The trainees drilled coordination activities and information sharing between the duty shifts of the Insulation making shop, Electric and Mechanic service and Security.

At Location 2, the trainees practiced evacuation of plant workers on the signals of the automated fire safety system. On the warning signal of the fire, the operators and engineers left their stations and arrived at the open ground within 4 minutes, which is a proficient level of readiness.

The trainer demonstrated fire-fighting means and gave a practical exercise to the workers on their application. The trainees practiced in fire extinguishing on burning liquids using dry powder extinguishers OP-5 and carbon dioxide extinguishers OU-5.

The General Director of Izolyator Sergey Moisseev summarized the results of the training, stating that the objectives were achieved:

• the duty shifts personnel practiced coordination at fire outbreaks detection on equipment and successfully practiced in application of means of firefighting;
• the automated fire safety system of the plant is operable and able to give warning to the plant’s staff about leaving the premises in case of fire;
• the plant’s workers successfully completed evacuation and practiced in application of means of firefighting.

Fire extinction on combustible fluid with an OU-5 extinguisher during fire safety practical exercise

General Director marked the high level of the training organization and execution and thank all participants for competent action on the fire warning signal.