<div dir="ltr"><div>See I would expect there would be an Australian Standard for Data Centre Fire Suppression<br></div><div> Systems, with regular inspections that were certified and the certificate on display in the data centre.</div><div><br></div><div>And as I haven't noticed this, and Chris hasn't noticed this, I would guess it's not a gap in places I've worked, but there's a more widespread lack of governance around inspections.</div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore, the fire suppressant, may leak. Halon is poisonous and can impair your judgement. So there ought to be an alarm that detects if Halon is present. It's not good enough to rely on the fire alarm to warn you of the presence of fire suppressant, because you could have a leak without a fire.<br></div><div><br></div><div>One would have to assume the people in Antarctica knew what they were doing, and yet, something went wrong and now they're dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Paul Wilkins<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 11:00, Chris Ford <<a href="mailto:chris.ford@inaboxgroup.com.au" target="_blank">chris.ford@inaboxgroup.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">As a university cadet working for IBM in the late 80s I remember getting inducted into the Westpac data centres and getting a long explanation of what to do when the halon system went off – where the breathing gear was, where the exits
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have been inducted into a few DCs in the last 3 years and can’t remember that being part of the induction at all – although given I already knew it I may have just glossed over that part.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Wilkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:53 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] [AUSNog] : Re Data Centre Fire Suppression Safety<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Every data centre has a fire suppression system. We're not used to thinking of this as a hazardous environment, but consequent to
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two techs being found dead working on a fire suppression system in Antarctica</a>, I find myself wondering yet again, why there aren't more stringent controls around the fire suppression systems in data centres: viz - when you enter a data centre, how confident
can you be you're not going to be quietly asphyxiated?<br>
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Paul Wilkins<u></u><u></u></p>
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