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Control room operators usually work in teams on variable shift patterns. Emergency control centres are open twenty-four hours a day, all year round, and are usually busiest on Friday and Saturday nights. Being staffed twenty-four hours a day requires large numbers of staff, typically around 80 operators in an average size jurisdiction.
The NFPA 72 "covers the application, installation, location, performance, inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm systems, supervising station alarm systems, public emergency alarm reporting systems, fire warning equipment and emergency communications systems (ECS), and their components."
Control room scenes dealing with crisis situations appear frequently in thriller novels and action films. In addition, a few documentaries have been filmed with scenes in real-life control room settings. Fail-Safe - a 1964 Cold war thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
Avon Fire & Rescue Service utilises a range of emergency equipment. These include 81 appliances, 51 pumping appliances, four turntable ladders and 16 special appliances. Adding to the available emergency response can also be their boats, pods, fork lift trucks, a Control Emergency Evacuation Vehicle and a telescopic handler.
Priority 2 or P2 is an urgent emergency call with risks of serious injury or damage to property. Lights and siren authorised and an exemption from all road traffic laws. An example of a P2 call is a high risk family violence incident, urgent welfare check, out of control gathering or a serious vehicle crash.
Although functionally separate, process control and shutdown systems are usually interfaced under one system, called an integrated control and safety system (ICSS). Shutdown systems typically use equipment that is SIL 2 certified as a minimum, whereas control systems can start with SIL 1. SIL applies to both hardware and software requirements ...
Packaged items of equipment (compressors, diesel engines, electricity generators, etc) are fitted with local vendor supplied instrumentation. When equipment malfunctions a multivariable signal (UA) is sent to the control room. The fire and gas detection system comprises local sensors to detect the presence of gas, smoke or fire. These initiate ...
IEC 60654 Industrial-process measurement and control equipment – Operating conditions; IEC 60657 Non-ionizing radiation hazards in the frequency range from 10 MHz to 300 000 MHz; IEC 60660 Insulators – Tests on indoor post insulators of organic material for systems with nominal voltages greater than 1 000 V up to but not including 300 kV