Requirements for fire safety during harvesting
General provisions
Before the start of field work, all persons involved in them must undergo fire-fighting instruction on compliance with fire safety requirements.
Comply with the norms of the availability of fire extinguishing means and keep fire extinguishing means in readiness, ensuring the possibility of their immediate use.
Temporary field mills must be located no closer than 100 m from grain arrays, currents, woodlands, etc. The sites of field mills and grain flow are plowed with a strip at least 4 m wide and equipped smoking areas with the inscriptions "Smoking area" are allocated. It is prohibited to smoke and work with the use of fire in and near grain arrays, as well as near straw and hay stacks.
Filling with petroleum products and carrying out gas-electric welding operations in the field should be carried out on special sites cleared of dry grass, combustible debris and plowed with a strip at least 4 m wide or in plowing, at a distance of 100 m from currents, haystacks and straw, grain arrays and at least 50 m from buildings. Refueling should be carried out only by the tanker with the engines turned off. It is prohibited to refuel cars at night.
Repair of combines and elimination of failures and malfunctions during operation should be carried out far from the grain array at a distance of at least 30 m, having plowed it around with a strip of at least 4 m.
Engine radiators, shafts of beaters, pickers, conveyors and pickers, augers and other components and parts of harvesting machines must be cleaned of dust, straw and grain in a timely manner.
Department of Emergency Situations of Karatal district