New norm JOINS 192005: 2014 for the statutory inspection of hygiene against fires in industry

The sector of hygiene against fires (SCI) in the industrial field is in luck. It has published one of the most expected norms, the new norm JOINS 192005:2014 Procedure for the statutory inspection. hygiene against fires in the industrial establishments.

In the manufacturing of this norm has participated actively during years Tecnifuego-Aespi, by his technical knowledges and specialised in the manufacture and installation and maintenance of the equipment and systems of hygiene against fires.

This norm was very necessary and sued in the sector of hygiene against fires, so much by manufacturers as by installers and mantenedores, since the Regulation of hygiene against fires in industrial establishments (RSCIEI) demands the periodic inspection to the industries depending on his intrinsic risk. Like this, this norm will help to the works of inspection for the Organisms of Control Authorised (GOOSE), and in this sense, during his manufacturing, has taken into account at all times so that it was an effective tool of work for these organisms.

The importance of this norm roots in that redundará in the efficiency and reliability of the systems of SCI that install in the industrial establishments. Thus it is desirable and very convenient that the Ministry of Industry publish it and demand his application in the frame of the RD. 2267/04, Chapter III, Articulate 6 and 7, to the greater possible shortness.

The new norm details the methodology that has to follow the inspection for the industrial hygiene and establishes the process of performance, the necessary previous documentation, the sequence of operations, before and during, the characterisation of the defects (slight, grave and very grave). This section is very important because they define perfectly the defects in function of parameters like evacuation of the people; on the control of the temperature and the control of smokes; manual systems of alarm of fires, automatic systems of detection and systems of communication and alarm; etc.

The norm establishes also the final documentation after the inspection, as they are the record and the report of periodic inspection. The what and how has to inspect establishes in the annexes To (comprobación of configuration and location), B (comprobación of the level of intrinsic risk), C (active protection), D (passive protection). The annex F establishes the formalisation of the performance inspector.