| Published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
The Life Safety Code addresses those construction, protection, and occupancy features necessary to minimize danger to life from the effects of fire, including smoke, heat and toxic gases created during a fire. It further establishes minimum criteria for the design of egress facilities so as to allow prompt escape of occupants from buildings or into safe areas within buildings.
Groundbreaking changes in the 2006 Life Safety Code herald a new era of safety!
From sprinklers, alarms, and egress to emergency lighting, smoke barriers, and special hazard protection, today's NFPA 101 Life Safety Code is your blueprint for safety! The 2006 edition incorporates the latest technologies, advances, and safety strategies to help you meet today's challenges and achieve higher levels of protection for building occupants than ever before.
To reduce fire injuries and deaths, this latest Life Safety Code edition mandates that the following occupancy types must be sprinklered:
- All new one- and two-family dwellings
- All existing nursing homes
- Existing nightclub assembly occupancies where occupant load exceeds 100 people
- New nightclub assembly occupancies regardless of occupant load
- A new chapter on existing building rehabilitation provides greater
flexibility to encourage adaptive reuse without sacrificing life safety.
In previous Code editions, modifications to existing buildings had to comply with provisions for new construction. The 2006 Life Safety Code's new Chapter 43 introduces specific requirements for:
- Repairs
- Renovations
- Additions
- Reconstruction
- Change of use or occupancy classification
- Historic buildings
Other important changes affect:
- Health care occupancy suites
- Alcohol-based hand-rub solution dispensers in corridors of health care occupancies
- Smoke control systems in new malls
- Crowd managers in assembly occupancies
- Stair descent devices for people with disabilities
- Stair width in certain new buildings to improve counterflow between occupants and first responders.
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Contents
Chapter 1: Administration. Chapter 2: Referenced Publications. Chapter 3: Definitions. Chapter 4: General. Chapter 5: Performance-Based Option. Chapter 6: Classification of Occupancy and Hazard of Contents. Chapter 7: Means of Egress. Chapter 8: Features of Fire Protection. Chapter 9: Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment. Chapter 10: Interior Finish, Contents, and Furnishings. Chapter 11: Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings. Chapter 12: New Assembly Occupancies. Chapter 13: Existing Assembly Occupancies. Chapter 14: New Educational Occupancies. Chapter 15: Existing Educational Occupancies. Chapter 16: New Day-Care Occupancies. Chapter 17: Existing Day-Care Occupancies. Chapter 18: New Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 19: Existing Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 20: New Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 21: Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 22: New Detention and Correctional Occupancies. Chapter 23: Existing Detention and Correctional Occupancies. Chapter 24: One- and Two-Family Dwellings. Chapter 25: Reserved. Chapter 26: Lodging or Rooming Houses. Chapter 27: Reserved. Chapter 28: New Hotels and Dormitories. Chapter 29: Existing Hotels and Dormitories. Chapter 30: New Apartment Buildings. Chapter 31: Existing Apartment Buildings. Chapter 32: New Residential Board and Care Occupancies. Chapter 33: Existing Residential Board and Care Occupancies. Chapter 34: Reserved. Chapter 35: Reserved. Chapter 36: New Mercantile Occupancies. Chapter 37: Existing Mercantile Occupancies. Chapter 38: New Business Occupancies. Chapter 39: Existing Business Occupancies. Chapter 40: Industrial Occupancies. Chapter 41: Reserved. Chapter 42: Storage Occupancies. Chapter 43: Building Rehabilitation. Annex A: Explanatory Material. Annex B: Informational References. Formal Interpretations. Tentative Interim Amendments. Index. |
