Technical Seminar on Fire Services
Department Approval Process
By Ir SL Tse
In
response to the concerns of processing time of statutory submission, three speakers
from the Fire Services Department (FSD) were invited to explain the approval
process in the seminar at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) on 28
November 2017. This event was jointly organized by BS and FE Divisions and supported
by Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of PolyU. More than 300 members
attended.
Following
a welcoming address by Ir Thomas Chung Chit-chun, Honorary Secretary of FE
Division, Ir Wilson Tsang Sau-kit, Chairman of FE Division, delivered the
opening speech. The seminar was divided into four parts and the speaker of the
first part was Mr. Ho Chun-pang, Senior Station Officer of New Projects
Division. He briefly described statutory role of FSD in the centralized
processing system for the approval of general building plans (GBP). He also
mentioned information required to be shown on the GBP and common non-compliance
found in the fire service provisions.
The
second speaker was Ir Midco Ma, Engineer of Fire Service Installations Division.
She focused on the workflow for acceptance inspection of fire service
installations and FSD’s work process on handling document submissions. She illustrated
with examples on common irregularities found in document submissions and site
inspections.
The
third speaker was Mr. Leung Lok-hang, Senior Station Officer of Dangerous Goods
Division. His presentation covered technical details and fire safety provision
required for application for dangerous goods licence.
The
last part was question-and-answer session. Members were very enthusiastic in
raising questions on FSD’s acceptance criteria on different scenarios. After
that, Ir Brian Cheng, Deputy Chairman of BS Division, gave the closing remarks.
At the end of the seminar, Ir Chung thanked all the speakers, members of the
organizing committee and participants for making the event such a great
success.