Obligations of the gas defender. Gas and smoke protection service

During fires, an unfavorable situation often develops, in which it is difficult to work without protecting the respiratory tract. Unsuitable for breathing environment is formed in connection with the smoke of the territory. And if you need an urgent evacuation of people from a burning building, or if a fireman needs to overcome a large area with smoke, the gas and smoke protection service begins to work. It is for work in such conditions that gas defenders work.

Gas and smoke protection service

The main task of the gas defroster is to fulfill the task of the GDZ in an environment not suitable for breathing. He obeys the commander of the link of service. Certification gazodymozaschitnikov is taking into account their mental and physical health, as well as many other factors. He must comply with all the rules of operation in the RPDF and obey unquestioningly the orders of his commander. And also his duties include informing about the number of people in trouble, and about all the circumstances related to their condition and location.

Gas defender

Gazodymozaschitnikom can be a person who has access to the use of RPE. These are ordinary subordinates of the fire service, and their chiefs, and cadets of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Breathing apparatus, which are issued to employees, should provide a protective effect for at least 240 minutes.

General duties of gas defender

During the work every representative of this profession must perform certain duties. There are general rules for all employees of the service. Among them is the following:

• A person should be constantly ready to start work related to putting out fires in an environment that is completely unsuitable for breathing. At the same time, he should improve his physical fitness, and special medical and psychological training of gas defenders should be carried out.
• He is obliged to monitor the technical health of the RPD, as well as any other equipment or fire tool that is attached to it. In addition, he is obliged to bring for maintenance all equipment in the specified time.
• His duties include calculating the oxygen supply and the time period for which the service link and its equipment can be located in a zone not suitable for breathing.
• The responsibility of the gas defensive specialist is the ability to provide first aid to people who have suffered from fire.
• He must constantly improve his skills as a component of the service during the work in an environment that is not suitable for breathing.

Obligations of the employee to conduct actions

When it is necessary to extinguish a fire, there are also special duties of a gas defensive specialist, among which there are:

• Knowledge of one's own task as a link of service, as well as unquestioning obedience to the commander.
• Knowing where the security post and the nearest checkpoint are.
• He must strictly follow the previously agreed route as a service link, and also take into account the rules for working with equipment that protects the respiratory tract from smoke.
• He has no right to leave the place of work without the permission of the commander of the GDZ-service. That is, in the responsibility of the gas defender, the order and its implementation are included first.
• His duties include tracking the change in the situation along the route of the link, taking into account the state of the construction of the building both along the route and in the place where the work itself is carried out.
• In the course of the passage of the danger zone, he must clearly remember the route along which the service link moves.
• Carefully monitor the pressure and oxygen supply in the equipment that it has.
• It can not without special need to use an emergency valve.
• The beginning and termination of the use of RPE should be carried out exclusively on the orders of the commander.
• Report to the commander the situation and its changes, taking into account the malfunctions in the defense equipment and its condition at the time of accomplishing the tasks set, including taste sensations, headaches and difficulty breathing, and then implicitly obey orders.

Duties of the gas defroster when using DUSK

In some cases, when the environment is completely unsuitable for breathing, the gas defender can use DASK and perform the following duties:

• Except in the fresh air, replace regenerative cartridges or oxygen cylinders in the equipment.
• Approximately once per hour, it should remove moisture, which accumulates in the junction of the box.
• If necessary, it must use bypass, that is, purge the equipment using an emergency valve.
• If the breathing valves are faulty, the servant must press the inhalation and expiration hoses with the appropriate action.
• If work is carried out in the air, the temperature of which is below zero, it must only switch on the equipment in the heated environment (for example, the car's cab or the entrance to the house), and, in addition, kits equipped with thermal protection must be used.
• If the employee has noticed equipment malfunctions, he must immediately notify the commander about this, and after acting solely on his orders.