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DSA02 DFSR Defence: Aerodrome Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations

DSA02 DFSR Defence Aerodrome Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) regulations provides guidance to Aerodrome Operators and ARFF service providers to ensure they are capable of meeting the requirements.

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From:
Ministry of Defence and Defence Safety Authority
Published:
24 September 2019
Last updated:
8 April 2026
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  1. Updated the Defence Aerodrome Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations and added a new Regulatory Notice on their update.

  2. Removed 'Regulatory instruction: 2020/01' as the information has been absorbed into 'DSA02 DFSR – Defence Aerodrome Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations'.

  3. Updated DFSR forms 01-09.

  4. Updated DFSR forms 01-07, and added 'DFSR form 08: Request for waiver/exemption template' and 'DFSR form 09: Request for Acceptable Alternative Means of Compliance (AAMC) template'.

  5. Updated 'DSA02 DFSR – Defence Aerodrome Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations'.

  6. Addition of: DSA02 DFSR – Defence Aerodrome Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations and Regulatory Instruction 2020/01.

  7. Updated all the regulation forms with the latest editions.

  8. First published.

Documents

DSA02 DFSR – Defence Aerodrome Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations

PDF, 1.01 MB, 70 pages

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DSA02 DFSR – Defence Aerodrome Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Regulations (accessible version)

PDF, 2.11 MB, 67 pages

DFSR notice of authorised amendment ARFF regulations

PDF, 29.3 KB, 2 pages

DSA DFSR Regulation Glossary of Terms

PDF, 250 KB, 20 pages

DFSR form 01: Response Area Assessment template

ODT, 242 KB

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DFSR form 02: Aerodrome 1000m Response Area Assessment template

ODT, 355 KB

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DFSR form 03: Water Assessment template

ODT, 167 KB

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DFSR form 04: Category for Specific Tasks Hazard Assessment (DDH) template

ODT, 516 KB

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DFSR form 05: Category for Specific Tasks Hazard Assessment (AM(MF)) template

ODT, 247 KB

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DFSR form 06: ARFF Reduction of Cover Hazard Assessment (DDH) template

ODT, 226 KB

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DFSR form 07: ARFF Reduction of Cover Hazard Assessment (AM(MF)) template

ODT, 209 KB

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DFSR form 08: Request for waiver/exemption template

ODT, 17.5 KB

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DFSR form 09: Request for Acceptable Alternative Means of Compliance (AAMC) template

ODT, 17.1 KB

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DFSR Regulatory Notice (RN) 2026-01 – Notice of Approved Ammendment to the DFSR ARFF Regulations

PDF, 215 KB, 2 pages

Details

Ownership of Joint Services Publication (JSP) 426 Volume 3 Leaflet 2 MOD Aerodrome Rescue and Fire Fighting Services transferred to DSA Defence Fire Service Regulator (DFSR) in 2016, where it separated fire safety regulations from ARFF regulations.

Consequently, ARFF regulations were published under cover of a Defence Instruction Notice (DIN) 2016DIN06-010. The JSP has been subjected to a significant rewrite and retitled DSA02 DFSR Defence ARFF Regulations.

The purpose of DSA02 DFSR Defence ARFF regulations is to provide both direction and guidance to Aerodrome Operators and ARFF service providers to establish an ARFF Service at Defence Aerodromes ensuring minimum standards are achieved and are capable of meeting regulatory requirements.

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