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The location of lifesaving equipment shall be such to allow easy access and manual operation and testing. In addition, there shall be granted sufficient space to allow the removal and replacement of all associated equipment.
Lifesaving equipment have been provided in accordance with LSA (Life Saving Appliance) Code and SOLAS Convention.
7.3 PUBLIC ADDRESS / GENERAL ALARM SYSTEM (PA/GA)
The scope of the systems is to signal on the Platform and in NA/Q-PIII Control Room, dangerous situations or malfunctions, where the urgent intervention of qualified personnel is needed. It is mainly composed by the Central Unit and the Loudspeakers, displaced throughout the Platform in order to enable personnel to listen to vocal messages or to alarms from any point of the plant, and supplemented with red / blue flashing lights in areas of high noise.
The Central Unit is installed in the muster point area and is complete of the microphone and the push-button for tones activation.
The Public Address System permits to alert personnel of the presence of dangerous conditions (listed in order of decreasing danger gravity):
• Platform Abandonment;
• Man Overboard;
• Gas Alarm;
• Fire Alarm.
Different alarm tones have been set to indicate dangerous conditions.
A more important alert tone shall override the less important one. The alarm tones will be activated by ESD / F&G System via hardwired signals.
Any alert tone shall override voice communications.
Loudspeakers are suitable to be installed in hazardous area according to Hazardous Area Classification requirements.
This System shall only be active when the Platform is manned.
7.4 NAVIGATION AID SYSTEM
NA/Q-PIII Platform is equipped with a Navigation Aid System, which consists of visual and audible devices, fed by an independent power supply system.
The marking and signalization of offshore structures shall comply with the latest edition of the applicable regulating International Codes IALA, as minimum requirements.