BAFE Adopted Schemes
SP204 Halon Decommissioning Scheme
The BAFE scheme for halon decommissioning was established as an industry approved process to verify compliance with the requirements of EC directive 2037/2000 for the removal of halon by the end of 2003.
The scheme has two parts to it one relating to individuals responsible for removing the halon and the other for those organisations employing the technicians.
The individual technicians have undertaken a training course and exam to provide evidence that they fully understand what is expected of them and that they are competent to carry out the work. Areas in which the technicians have to be conversant are:
- Typical application for gaseous fire suppression systems
- The Montreal Protocol
- Legislative background behind decommissionong
- Critical use of halon
- Safe working practices
- Transportation of waste and hazardous goods
- Disposal of redundant hard ware
- Disposal of halon.
Once the technician training has been successfully completed, an individual certificate and identity card is issued.
The organisation employing the technicians also have to meet a minimum standard to ensure that appropriate process are in place to record and control the removal, storage, disposal or reuse of the halon.
Typically things the company has to have in place are:
- Documented and deployed Quality Management System
- Health and safety policy
- Evidence of adequate liability insurance
- Access to appropriate technical information for those systems that the organisation is decommissioning.
