Standards for storage battery facilities and chubo facilities (charcoal grillers) that use solid fuel have changed. (Effective on January 1, 2024)

[Storage battery equipment]

Regulations on storage battery equipment were mainly intended for open-type lead storage batteries, but in recent years, storage battery facilities such as sealed lead storage batteries, nickel-metal hydride storage batteries, and lithium-ion storage batteries have become widespread. In addition, standards such as JIS have come to include fire prevention measures and fire spread prevention measures.

Charcoal-fired dish

Charcoal firing equipment, which uses solid fuel, did not have an evaluation method to determine the separation distance.

In response to these, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications conducted a study and a national ministerial ordinance. ※Etc. were revised, and the storage battery equipment was changed to the content according to the type and safety, and for charcoal grillers, the separation distance was determined, so a part of the Yokohama City Fire Prevention Ordinance was also revised. did.

※"Ministerial ordinance stipulating standards for the establishment of ordinances on the location, structure and management of target fire equipment, etc. and the handling of target fire appliances, etc." (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Ordinance No. 24 of 2002)

For more information, please refer to the following link.

• Outline of revision of standards for storage battery equipment (PDF: 415KB)
• Outline of revision of standard of chubo facilities (charcoal griller) using solid fuel (PDF: 379KB)

With some revisions of the Yokohama-shi fire prevention regulations, we revised some report styles.
After the enforcement date, please use the new style from the notification style download.

Date of promulgation: December 21, 2023
Effective date: January 1, 2024