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2. Safe filling and charging procedures;
3. Testing and rating procedures;
4. The various chemicals and formulation of extinguishing and their
properties;
5. When and how to destroy any extinguisher container; and
6. Retrieval and disposal of prohibited or banned fire extinguishers.
SECTION 10.5.3.5
PROHIBITED TYPES OF EXTINGUISHERS
The following types of fire extinguishers and/or extinguishing agents are
prohibited for manufacture or sale:
A. All inverting types which require inversion of the extinguisher before its
operation;
B. Soda-acid extinguishers;
C. Stored pressure or cartridge-operated foam solution, water or loaded
stream;
D. Vaporizing liquids (e.g. carbon tetrachloride);
E. Thermal special hazards single station extinguishers with extinguishing
capability of less than four and a half cubic meters (4.5 m 3 );
F. Fire extinguishers containing Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS); and
G. Other types which may be prohibited and banned hereinafter by proper
authorities.
SECTION 10.5.3.6
PROHIBITED ACTS
The following are declared prohibited acts with regard to fire extinguishers:
A. Removal of inspection tags attached to fire extinguishers.
B. Refilling a discharged extinguisher with an extinguishing agent other than
what the unit was designed to contain.
C. Selling extinguishers not appropriate to the hazard.
D. Selling any extinguisher prohibited under Section 10.5.4.5 of this IRR.
E. Selling defective or substandard extinguishers.
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