自動車運搬船安全フォーラム（VCSF）は、自動車運搬船向けの新たな火災訓練ガイドライン「Fire Drill Guidelines for Vehicle Carrying Vessels」を発行しました。このガイドラインは、自動車運搬船の運航者が船上での火災対応訓練を策定・実施するための体系的な枠組みを提供するものです。火災発生時における対応態勢、意思決定、連携の強化を目的としています。
今回の新しいガイドラインは、VCSFが2025年4月に公表した「Fire Response – High Level Guidelines」を基礎として策定されています。
自動車運搬船を運航するメンバーにとって、効果的な訓練は、火災への備えが十分であるかを確認するとともに、各船固有の火災対応体制への理解を深める重要な機会となります。
そのためメンバーの皆様には、新しいガイドラインを既存の火災対応手順と併せて確認し、その原則を各船固有の教育・訓練や火災訓練、さらにSafety Management System（SMS：安全管理システム）にどのように取り入れることができるか検討することが推奨されています。
The Vehicle Carrier Safety Forum (VCSF) has published new Fire Drill Guidelines for Vehicle Carrying Vessels, providing vessel operators with a structured framework for developing and conducting fire response drills on board vehicle carriers. The guidance is intended to help strengthen operational readiness, decision-making and coordination when responding to a fire.
The new guidelines build on the VCSF’s Fire Response – High Level Guidelines, published in April 2025. The earlier guidance was developed to assist vessel operators and crews prepare for the challenges presented by vehicle fires and to support operators in developing their own fire response policies and procedures, with particular emphasis on the early use of existing fixed firefighting systems.
The latest guidance takes this a step further by focusing on how those principles can be put into practice through onboard drills. Emphasis is placed on rapid confirmation of a fire, fast muster, safe deployment of crew and the early and correct use of fixed firefighting systems to help prevent a fire from escalating.
The guidelines are principle-based rather than prescriptive, recognising the considerable variation in vessel design, equipment, cargo configuration and trade. They do not seek to provide detailed ship-specific procedures; instead, they provide a framework that operators can adapt to their own vessels and operations. The guidelines also recognise that emerging technologies or systems should be incorporated where they are available on board.
For Members operating vehicle-carrying vessels, effective drills provide an important opportunity to test preparedness and reinforce familiarity with ship-specific fire response arrangements. Members are therefore encouraged to review the new guidelines alongside their existing fire response procedures and consider how the principles can be incorporated into ship-specific training and drills, as well as their Safety Management System.
About the Vehicle Carrier Safety Forum
The VCSF brings together vessel operators, insurers and industry experts with the aim of promoting safety on vehicle carriers and at the ship/shore interface. Initiated in 2020, the Forum has produced a series of industry good practice guidelines addressing vehicle carrier safety.
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