Emergency Respond : Fire water system
Nobody want an accident to happen but we always prepared for respond for emergency. In Malaysia's CIMAH regulation 1996, there is specific regulations mention on Emergency respond and preparedness. Thus it is importance to understand and implement a good emergency respond management so that accident could be manage at early stage and prevent from escalation of emergency to crisis mode.
Fire water system is one of main focus in emergency respond facility. As we aware fire is the biggest nightmare that process plant want to avoid. Cause from fire accident, it could cause fatality, major asset damage, business interruption and many chain of effect. that's why a good process plant need to ensure their fire water design philosophy is good enough to ensure it can be rely on during emergency.
Fire water demand is base on identified risk of the facility. to get ideas on some of fire water capacity, table below could be use as a guide:
