Regulations on fire protection for hotels, motels and things to note

These years back, many fires and explosions occurred at hotels and motels, causing serious damage to property and even people’s lives. To minimize burning at these locations, regulations on fire prevention with hotels, motels and things to be stored have been issued. Take a look at this article right now!

Appendix III of Decree 79/2014/ND-CP stipulates the list of establishments subject to notification to the fire prevention and fighting police agency about the assurance of fire prevention and fighting safety conditions before being put to use. In which, motels are also on the list of these facilities. At the same time, the motel is also on the list of fire prevention and fighting management specified in Appendix I of Decree 79/2014/ND-CP and is an establishment that is at risk of fire and explosion (for residential buildings). accommodation with a height of 5 floors or more or a volume of 5000 m3 or more).

Therefore, the motel needs to comply with a number of fire protection conditions after going into business:

For motels with a height of 5 floors or more or with a volume of 5000 m3 or more but not more than 9 floors or 25m

According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 7 of Decree 79/2014/ND-CP, this hotel must have:

• There are regulations, rules, prohibition signs, signs, diagrams, or signboards on fire prevention and fighting and escape suitable to the characteristics and operation characteristics of the motel.
• There are regulations and assignments of responsibilities and tasks for fire prevention and fighting in the motel.
• Electrical system, lightning protection, anti-static; equipment using electricity, generating fire and generating heat; the use of fire and heat sources must ensure fire prevention and fighting safety.
• Having a technical safety process on fire prevention and fighting is suitable to the conditions of the motel business.
• There is a fire prevention and fighting force of the motel, with specialized training in fire prevention and fighting and a standing organization ready to fight the fire to meet the requirements of on-site fire fighting.
• Having a fire fighting and escape plan approved by a competent authority as prescribed in Article 21 of this Decree.
• Having a system of traffic, water supply, communication in service of fire fighting, fire alarm system, fire fighting, fire prevention, other fire prevention, and fighting means, and means of saving people suitable to the nature and characteristics of the fire fighting system. of the motel must ensure the quantity, quality and operation in accordance with the standards and technical regulations on fire prevention and fighting or the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security.
• Having records of management and monitoring of fire prevention and fighting activities according to regulations of the Ministry of Public Security.

For motels with a height of fewer than 5 floors or a volume of fewer than 5000 m3

As specified in Clause 2, Article 7 of the decree: Ensuring safety conditions for fire prevention and fighting as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 7 suitable to the size and nature of operation of that motel and suitable to standards and technical regulations on fire prevention and fighting.

For motels with a height of over 9 floors or 25 m or more

In addition to meeting the fire prevention and fighting safety conditions specified in Clause 1, Article 7 of this Decree, the following conditions must also be met:

• The building structure of the house must have a fire-resistance limit suitable to the nature of use and the height of the house as prescribed by standards and technical regulations on fire prevention and fighting.
• Walls, partitions, and suspended ceilings of escape routes escape ladder rooms, public rooms with large crowds of people must not use interior decoration materials, soundproofing, and heat-insulating materials. flammable material.

Things need to notice

The regulations are so, however, currently in some hotels, motels, and tourist areas there are always potential risks of large fires causing serious damage, in which some of the following problems emerge:

• Some hotels, motels, and tourist areas are not built to meet the requirements of fire prevention and fighting, do not meet the requirements of a safe distance against fire spread and have no safe escape route when a fire occurs.
• The fire protection system, the way for fire trucks to approach when a fire occurs in some motels, hotels, and tourist areas still have many shortcomings.
• Many tourist resorts, hotels, and motels are built with combustible materials; paintings, bamboo, cork, leaves. The main fuel source for restaurants is gas.
• The emergency lighting system and emergency exit instructions are not available.
• Many hotels, motels, large-scale tourist resorts, worth many billions of dong, are far away from the fire protection unit, while the fire fighting force on the spot has not been properly invested.
• Some heads of facilities are not fully aware of their responsibilities for fire prevention and fighting, so they have not fully invested in this work, especially the implementation of technical solutions to strictly manage fire prevention and fighting. close fire sources, heat sources, flammable substances, conditions to prevent fire spread, escape in case of fire and organize grassroots fire prevention and fighting forces, most fires in hotels, motels, and tourist areas are mainly local forces are inefficient. There are also many establishment owners who are not interested in fire prevention and fighting, considering the fire prevention and fighting work to be the work of the police or the local government.

In order to strengthen measures and solutions for fire prevention and fighting in hotels, motels and tourist areas, it is first necessary to clearly define the responsibilities of all levels, branches, social organizations, units, and establishments related to the work. in the implementation of fire protection solutions for hotels, motels, and resorts. According to the provisions of the Fire Prevention and Fighting Law, Decree No. 79/2014/ND/CP of the Government, the responsibility first belongs to the government level directly managing hotels, motels, and tourist areas. To ensure the fire safety of hotels, motels, and tourist resorts, the establishment owner organizes to thoroughly implement the following issues:

• Fully implement legal documents and regulations on fire prevention and fighting in hotels, motels, and tourist areas to promptly and thoroughly overcome the above-mentioned loopholes, shortcomings, and fire risks.
• For new construction or renovation of tourist areas, motels, and hotels, before construction, the design of fire prevention and fighting must be submitted for approval in order to strictly comply with fire safety regulations and standards; installing and renovating fire protection systems, electrical systems in accordance with fire safety regulations, separate electrical systems to indicate emergency exits, incident lighting, protective lighting, electrical systems serving equipment FIREFIGHTING.
• Owners of establishments when building and repairing motels, hotels and resorts should choose non-combustible materials. If for any other reason, combustible materials are used for construction, there should be measures to increase the fire resistance level for such materials such as; use fire retardant paint, flame retardant chemicals….
• The escape system in motels, resorts, and hotels when a fire occurs must be arranged in accordance with the standards prescribed by the State, especially for hotels, high-rise motels, and basements, etc…
• Promulgating and organizing the implementation of regulations on fire prevention and fighting in hotels, motels and tourist areas.
• Self-organizing fire prevention and fighting safety inspection, promptly detecting and overcoming fire-causing shortcomings, resolutely handling cases of violations of regulations on fire prevention and fighting, creating fire risks.
• Establish a grassroots fire prevention team with enough numbers to organize fire fighting during the day, especially at night and on holidays, select enthusiastic and responsible people to join the grassroots fire fighting team. department. Organize training on fire prevention and fighting skills for grassroots forces so that this force has enough knowledge and capacity to perform on-site fire prevention and fighting tasks.
• Invest funds for fire prevention and fighting to equip on-site fire-fighting means, rescue and escape means when a fire occurs, paying special attention to the on-site water source for fire fighting for hotels, motels, and motels. tourist areas, maintaining the activities of grassroots fire prevention and fighting forces and other fire prevention and fighting forces.
• Facilities must develop fire fighting plans assuming many different possible fire situations and regularly organize exercises to handle situations in order to proactively arrange vehicle forces and have appropriate tactics. If a fire occurs, extinguish it on the spot, promptly and effectively.

Another very important measure to minimize fires and fire damage is that the Fire Police force, according to the function of State management of fire prevention and fighting, must strengthen inspection and guide work. Fire protection services for hotels, motels, and tourist areas.

In addition, the owners of hotels, motels, and tourist resorts need to check and urge their employees to actively perform their responsibilities in fire prevention and fighting. At the same time, advise the local government to issue documents directing to strengthen the implementation of fire prevention measures for hotels, motels, and tourist areas in accordance with the economic development of the locality, to help the government localities to remove difficulties, make development planning, build hotels, motels, and tourist areas in order to reduce the overload of tourists’ resting needs. Research and propose the decentralization of management of fire prevention and fighting work for hotels, motels, tourist resorts in the management areas of the District and Ward levels to compile management records and implement professional measures of fire prevention and fighting against all hotels, motels, tourist areas have fire danger.

Not only that, the strengthening of inspection of the implementation of fire safety regulations at times of fire risk such as the dry season, holidays, and Tet must be made into a topic for proper investment in fire prevention and fighting work. hotels, motels, resorts. Develop a fire fighting plane, in which complex situations are expected with the mobilization of many forces in fire fighting and saving people when a fire occurs, standing ready to fight the fire to promptly handle such incidents. large fire situations, in order to minimize the damage caused by fire.

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