NFPA 101-2018 Life Safety Code (Effective Date 09 06 2017 ALERT THIS STANDARD HAS BEEN MODIFIED BY A TIA OR ERRATA).pdf

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32、n, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169. Copyright 2017 National Fire Protection Association . All Rights Reserved. NFPA 101 Life Safety Code 2018 Edition This edition of NFPA 101 , Life Safety Code , was prepared by the Technical Committees on Assembly Occupancies; Board and Care Facilities; Building Servic

33、e and Fire Protection Equipment; Detention and Correctional Occupancies; Educational and Day-Care Occupancies; Fire Protection Features; Fundamentals; Health Care Occupancies; Industrial, Storage, and Miscellaneous Occupancies; Interior Finish and Contents; Means of Egress; Mercantile and Business O

34、ccupancies; and Residential Occupancies; released by the Correlating Committee on Safety to Life; and acted on by the Standards Council at its June Association Technical Meeting held June 47, 2017, in Boston, MA. It was issued by the Standards Council on August 17, 2017, with an effective date of Se

35、ptember 6, 2017, and supersedes all previous editions. This document has been amended by one or more Tentative Interim Amendments (TIAs) and/or Errata. See “Codes Caneld, Dubuque19 dead; and Winecoff, Atlanta 119 dead). The Building Exits Code, thereafter, was used to an increasing extent for regula

36、tory purposes. However, the Code was not written in language suitable for adoption into law, because it had been drafted as a reference document and contained advisory provisions that were useful to building designers but inappropriate for legal use. This led to a decision by the Committee to re-edi

37、t the entire Code,LIFE SAFETY CODE 101-2 2018 Edition limiting the body of the text to requirements suitable for mandatory application and placing advisory and explanatory material in notes. The re-editing expanded Code provisions to cover additional occupancies and building features to produce a co

38、mplete document. The Code expansion was carried on concurrently with development of the 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1952 editions. The results were incorporated into the 1956 edition and further rened in subsequent editions dated 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1963. In 1955, NFPA 101B, on nursing homes

39、, and NFPA 101C, on interior nish, were published. NFPA 101C was revised in 1956. These publications have since been withdrawn. In 1963, the Committee on Safety to Life was restructured to represent all interested factions and to include only those members with broad knowledge of re matters. The Com

40、mittee served as a review and correlating committee for seven sectional committees whose personnel included members having a special knowledge and interest in various portions of the Code. Under the revised structure, the sectional committees, through the Committee on Safety to Life, prepared the 19

41、66 edition of the Code, which was a complete revision of the 1963 edition. The Code title was changed from Building Exits Code to Code for Safety to Life from Fire in Buildings and Structures. The Code text was written in enforceable “code language,” and all explanatory notes were placed in an appen

42、dix. The Code was placed on a 3-year revision schedule, with new editions adopted in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1976. In 1977, the Committee on Safety to Life was reorganized as a technical committee, with an executive committee and standing subcommittees responsible for various chapters and sections. Th

43、e 1981 edition contained major editorial changes, including reorganization within the occupancy chapters, to make them parallel to each other, and the splitting of requirements for new and existing buildings into separate chapters. Chapters on detention and correctional facilities were added, as wel

44、l as new sections for ambulatory health care centers. The 1985 edition contained a new Chapter 21 on residential board and care occupancies with related Appendix F and Appendix G, a new Appendix D on alternative calculations for stair width, and Appendix E, a re safety evaluation system (FSES) for d

45、etention and correctional facilities. The 1988 edition contained a major change in the method of determining egress capacity with the deletion of the traditional units of exit width and the substitution of a straight linear approach to calculating egress capacity. Appendix C through Appendix G were

46、moved from NFPA 101 into a new document, NFPA 101M. The 1991 edition contained numerous new requirements for mandatory sprinklers in new health care facilities, hotels, apartment buildings, lodging and room houses, and board and care facilities, as well as mandatory sprinkler requirements for existi

47、ng high-rise hotels and apartment buildings. The requirements for board and care facilities were split into two chapters, Chapter 22 for new construction and Chapter 23 for existing buildings. The 1994 edition contained new requirements for accessible means of egress, areas of refuge, and ramps, put

48、ting the Code in substantial agreement with the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG). The 1997 edition relocated the material on day-care occupancies from Chapters 10 and 11 for new and existing educational occupancies to new Chapters 30 and 31. The operating features req

49、uirements, previously contained in Chapter 31, were interspersed throughout the Code, as applicable. The 2000 edition introduced a performance-based option via Section 4.4 and new Chapter 5. That edition also reformatted the Code for substantial compliance with the NFPA Manual of Style: (1) former Chapter 1, General, was split into Chapter 1, Administration, and Chapter 4, General; (2) the mandatory references list was moved from Chapter 33 to Chapter 2; (3) all denitions were moved into Chapter 3, and each dened term was numbered; (4) the para