Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027:reg:6:p65
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 65/70)
Character Range: 3285054–3288058

fault reporting and record‑keeping on or for the equipment.

139.805  Vehicles and equipment for firefighting and rescue in difficult environments
 (1) If a significant proportion of aircraft movements at the aerodrome take place over water, swamp or another difficult environment, there must be appropriate vehicles, boats and equipment for firefighting and rescue in that environment within 1 000 metres of the threshold of each runway.
 (2) The vehicles, boats and equipment must be in at least the numbers and quantity required by the applicable standards and requirements.
 (3) The vehicles and boats must be of a colour required or permitted by the applicable standards and requirements.

139.810  Commissioning of certain equipment
  An ARFFS provider must not begin to use a piece of operational equipment for the purpose of an ARFFS unless the equipment has been approved by CASA as conforming to specifications and any applicable standards, in accordance with the operator's aerodrome manual, and any applicable standards or requirements in the Manual of Standards.

139.815  Protective clothing and equipment
  At the aerodrome there must be, for the firefighters and rescue personnel:
 (a) protective clothing that complies with:
 (i) if there is a relevant Australian Standard (as in force immediately before this regulation commences)—that Standard; or
 (ii) if there is no such Australian Standard—any relevant internationally recognised standard;
  in at least the quantity required by the applicable standards and requirements; and
 (b) other protective equipment in the quantity required by, and of a kind in accordance with, those standards and requirements.

139.820  Communications
 (1) There must be, on the aerodrome, sufficient communications equipment available to provide communication during an ARFFS operation.
 (2) The vehicles used for the service must carry suitable communications equipment.
 (3) A person who is required to operate the equipment must hold an aeronautical radio operator certificate.
 (4) The equipment must not interfere, when in use, with communications equipment used by the air traffic service at the aerodrome.

139.825  Test and maintenance equipment
 (1) The provider must have the necessary equipment and tools, in accordance with the applicable standards and requirements, to test and maintain the equipment used to provide the service.
 (2) If the applicable standards and requirements require particular test or maintenance equipment, particular kinds of test or maintenance equipment, or particular numbers or quantities of a particular type of test or maintenance equipment, the provider must have that equipment or that number or quantity of that type of equipment.

139.830  Commissioning of new vehicles and equipment
  The provider must not put a new vehicle, or a new item of equipment that affects the quality or rate of discharge of extinguishing agent, into service unless:
 (a) the vehicle or equipment has been approved by CASA, for