Terms of participation
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Fire safety regulations
Fire safety regulations
1. The COMPANY shall maintain exhibition area in good condition and shall guarantee basic fire safety conditions taking into account construction rules and regulations.
2. Responsibility for fire safety and compliance with fire safety regulations during mounting, running and dismantling periods of exhibitions shall be borne by exhibitors and organizers of exhibitions, which are arranged and held by the COMPANY and with its assistance.
3. Compliance with the present rules shall be supervised by the COMPANY’s technical departments, the COMPANY’s exhibition directorate and the local state fire fighting bodies.
4. The exposition plan shall be submitted to the COMPANY as regards fire safety regulations at least two months before the announced commencement date of installation.
The layouts of roofed and open-air expositions to be submitted by foreign participants shall be required to indicate:
4.1. The layout of exhibits, offices, various auxiliary premises (cinema hall, film projecting rooms, kitchen, dining rooms, restaurants, bars, information desks), showing all dimensions and tied up with a particular exposition area.
4.2. Location of evacuation exits, fire hydrants, internal fire cocks and power cabinets, according to the copy of the pavilion plan received by the firm from the COMPANY. Unobstructed access to the exits, fire hydrants, internal fire cocks and power cabinets and an adequate zone required for their normal operation must be provided.
4.3. Exhibits displayed in operation, operating principles of engines, fuel and lubricants used, and raw materials processed.
4.4. Conventional signs and symbols to easily read drawings and the necessary legends. Exposition plans shall be submitted in duplicate. The legends and inscriptions in the plans shall be made in the Russian language.
5. Exhibitors or organizers shall submit, at least a month before the commencement of installation, to the COMPANY information about all radioactive, inflammable and explosion-hazardous materials and exhibits to enable coordinated safety measures to be taken. Importation of the above-said materials and exhibits without the authorization of the COMPANY shall not be allowed.
6. Stationary stand structures may be made of conventional building materials (of a normal flammability class). Fireproof and slow-burning materials shall be used for finishing the interior of stands, offices, podiums, ceilings and fencing. All flammable materials must be treated with a fireproofing compound. The use of draping materials from flammable plastics which are not susceptible to treatment with a fireproofing compound shall not be allowed.
Painting and varnishing with the use of flammable paints in pavilion is prohibited.
Two-storeyed and double deck stands as well as stands with increased fire risks must be equipped with additional fire detectors connected to the central fire alarm board of the Fairgrounds.
Documents describing the flammability degree of all stand materials used in the organization of exhibitions shall be submitted.
7. Carpets and runners used in pavilions shall be securely attached to the floor along the perimeter and at the joints thereof. These shall be made of a slow-burning material (resisting a burning cigarette or a match).
8. During installation and dismantling of exhibits, the approach ways (passages) in pavilions shall be kept vacant. Unneeded transportation crates, packaging and other materials and equipment shall immediately be removed from the pavilions.
9. Thresholds and turnstiles shall not be set up in evacuation and traffic paths of visitors. Aisles for visitors shall have a width of at least three (3) metres and a circular layout and offer free access to evacuation passages, power cabinets, fire boxes and other fire fighting facilities. Stairwells, evacuation exits, passages, corridors and vestibules shall always be kept free from any objects preventing the flow of people.
It shall not be allowed to arrange expositions made of flammable materials, and lay out offices and service rooms in the stairwells and under stair flights.
10. The use of electrical and gas-fired devices for making tea or coffee shall be allowed only in rooms specially allocated and equipped for these purposes by agreement with the fire safety service.
Electrical heating devices, refrigerators and air conditioners shall be connected to separate networks equipped with starting protection devices.
11. Exhibition pavilions shall not be adapted to purposes such as:
– construction of storages and workshops;
– storage of combustible and flammable liquids;
– installation of combustible gas containers;
– demonstration of operating exhibits using naked flame.
12. If the permissible current of low-power electrical devices (electric motors, transformers, etc.) mounted on an electrically powered stand is below the rated value of the automatic protection device of the network, additional electrical protection shall be provided. All electrical units shall be adequately grounded.
13. In the absence of a threat of mechanical damage being done to open electric networks, it shall be allowed to use cables clad in a non-combustible or slow-burning outer sheathing.
All wire and cable connections and tappings shall be made by welding, soldering, moulding or the use of special-purpose clamps. Wire and cable strands must be reliably insulated at connecting and tapping points.
14. Mobile power equipment shall be connected with the use of flexible conductors safely protected against mechanical damage. All power installation devices (distribution boxes, sockets, etc.) shall be certified.
15. Electric lighting devices adapted to fire-hazardous premises of class P II shall be used for illuminating halls and stands.
It shall not be allowed to use diffusers made of acrylic plastic, polystyrene and other flammable materials in lighting fixtures.
The distance between intensifying lighting fixtures and combustible or slow-burning surfaces shall be equal to at least 40 cm.
16. Demonstration of operating models and units using flammable liquids or combustible gases in exhibition halls shall be allowed with the provision that these are pumped via pipelines from containers installed outside the building and the exhaust gases are vented to the outside.
Installation and demonstration of fire-hazardous exhibits and processes (welding and soldering jobs, other jobs involving naked fire, combustible solvents, etc.) shall be subject to approval by the COMPANY’s exhibition directorate and the fire prevention unit.
17. Storage of promotional materials and goods shall not be arranged at exhibition stands. They shall be kept in office premises in quantities not exceeding daily requirements.
Exhibits, standby equipment, crates and packages shall be stored outside the pavilions or in specially allocated premises.
18. Smoking inside exhibition pavilions shall be allowed only in places specially allocated for the purpose and in negotiation rooms provided with ashtrays.
19. Welding and other fire-hazardous jobs shall be carried out with written authorization of the COMPANY; existing fire safety regulations shall be carefully followed in the process.
20. When arranging exhibition displays or erecting temporary buildings and accommodation at Expocentre’s open-air sites Nos. 21, 22, 23 along the southern side of Pavilion 8, the following regulations shall be observed:
20.1 Exhibition display systems shall be installed at a distance not less than 4 metres from the exterior panels of Pavilion 8. In this regard,
- exhibition display systems must be made of incombustible, fireproof and non-explosive materials;
- the walls, ceilings, floors and roofs of temporary buildings and accommodation at the exhibition display area must be made of inflammable materials only.
(The classification of substances and materials is given in Articles Nos. 12 and 13 of the Technical Regulations for Fire Safety Requirements, Federal Law No.123-FZ of 22.07.2008)
20.2 Exhibition display stands in temporary buildings shall be equipped with not less than 2 extra fire detectors per each layer of the stand and an automatic fire-extinguishing system, such as, for example, Buran-2.5-2Ñ, a dry chemical fire-fighting unit.
The number of fire detectors and units required shall be determined when approving the construction project of the temporary building with Fire Department No.160 of the Federal Firefighting Service located at Expocentre Fairgrounds.
21. All other issues which remain beyond the scope of the present regulations and which might arise during mounting, running and dismantling periods of exhibitions shall be settled on the spot by the COMPANY’s exhibition directorate, pavilion management and fire fighting service personnel.
22. If the design of an exposition does not meet the present regulations, the COMPANY’s exhibition directorate shall be entitled to demand from the participants (organizers) that the exposition be dismantled.
23. All exhibition participants shall be required to know and follow fire safety regulations and know how to behave in case of fire and to use first-hand fire-fighting means.
Penalties shall be imposed on exhibitors by State Fire Fighting Service bodies in a legally established procedure for the breach of fire safety regulations.
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