NFPA 1971-2013 Standard on Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting (Effective Date 8 29 2012).pdf

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25、www.nfpa.org. 12/11Copyright 2012 National Fire Protection Association. All Rights Reserved.NFPA1971Standard onProtective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fightingand Proximity Fire Fighting2013 EditionThis edition of NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting andProximity

26、 Fire Fighting, was prepared by the Technical Committee on Structural and ProximityFire Fighting Protective Clothing and Equipment, released by the Technical CorrelatingCommittee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment, and actedon by NFPA at its June Association Technical M

27、eeting held June 1114, 2012, in Las Vegas, NV.It was issued by the Standards Council on August 9, 2012, with an effective date of August 29,2012, and supersedes all previous editions.Tentative interim amendments (TIAs) to Sections 2.3 and 8.10 were issued on August 9,2012. For further information on

28、 tentative interim amendments, see Section 5 of the NFPARegulations Governing Committee Projects available at: http:/www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/CodesStandards/TIAErrataFI/TIARegs.pdf.This edition of NFPA 1971 was approved as an American National Standard on August 29,2012.Origin and Development o

29、f NFPA 1971The original work on this project was done by the Sectional Committee on ProtectiveEquipment for Fire Fighters that was a part of the Committee on Fire Department Equip-ment. In 1973, the Sectional Committee released a tentative standard, NFPA 19A-T, TentativeStandardonProtectiveClothingf

30、orFireFighters. The Sectional Committee continued its work, andwith the cooperation of the Program for Fire Services Technology of the National Bureau ofStandards, developed NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Clothing for Structural Fire Fighting.NFPA 1971 was adopted as a standard at the Fall Meetin

31、g in Pittsburgh, PA, on November 18,1975.Since that time, the Sectional Committee has been removed from the Committee on FireDepartment Equipment and made a full Technical Committee.The 1981 edition of NFPA 1971 represented a complete editorial reworking of the 1975edition to make the document more

32、usable by both the fire service and protective clothingmanufacturers. The 1981 edition was acted on at the Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX, on May19, 1981.The 1986 edition incorporated a complete revision of the document to include moreperformance requirements and fewer specifications. Separate perform

33、ance and testing chap-ters were written. The 1986 edition was acted on at the Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on May1922, 1986.Following the 1986 edition, the Committee was renamed from the Technical Committeeon Protective Equipment for Fire Fighters to the Technical Committee on Fire Service Pro-tec

34、tive Clothing and Equipment.The 1991 edition incorporated third party certification, labeling, and listing for the pro-tective clothing. A new chapter was added to address interface items, specifically the protec-tive hood and protective wristlets. Appendix material was developed on cleaning of garm

35、entsand evaluating how materials can affect heat stress. The 1991 edition, the fourth edition, waspresented to the NFPA membership at the Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, on May 1923,1991, and was issued with an effective date of August 16, 1991.In October 1994, the NFPA Standards Council reorganized t

36、he Technical Committee onFire Service Protective Clothing and Equipment as the Project on Fire and Emergency Ser-vices Protective Clothing and Equipment operating with seven technical committees and a19711NFPA and National Fire Protection Association are registered trademarks of the National Fire Pr

37、otection Association, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169.technical correlating committee. NFPA 1971 is now the responsibility of the Technical Committee on Structural andProximity Fire Fighting Protective Clothing and Equipment.The 1997 edition of NFPA 1971, the fifth edition, combined four former standard

38、s on structural fire fightingprotective clothing: NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Clothing for Structural Fire Fighting; NFPA 1972, Standard on Helmetsfor Structural Fire Fighting; NFPA 1973, Standard on Gloves for Structural Fire Fighting; and NFPA 1974, Standard on ProtectiveFootwear for Structu

39、ral Fire Fighting, into a single document entitled NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Ensemble for Struc-tural Fire Fighting.The 2000 edition was the sixth edition and represented a complete revision to the fifth (1997) edition. Amongother changes, the edition introduced new requirements for evaporat

40、ive heat transfer through garments through atotal heat loss test, for evaluating thermal insulation in areas of garments that are most likely to become compressedthrough a conductive and compressive heat resistance test, for evaluating hand dexterity with gloves through a newhand function test, and

41、for evaluating the durability of barrier materials through additional preconditioning prior toselected physical tests of the barrier materials.The sixth edition was presented to the Association membership at the 1999 Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA, onNovember 17, 1999, and issued by the Standards C

42、ouncil with an effective date of February 11, 2000.The 2007 edition of NFPA 1971, the seventh edition, represented a complete revision. The requirements of twoformer standards, the 2000 (sixth) edition of NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Ensemble for Structural Fire Fighting, andthe 2000 (second) e

43、dition of NFPA 1976, Standard on Protective Ensemble for Proximity Fire Fighting, were combined into asingle document entitled NFPA 1971, Standard on Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting.Other than combining the two documents, the major changes represented in

44、 the 2007 edition were the optionalrequirements for protection from CBRN terrorism agents (specified chemicals, biological agents, and radiological par-ticulate) that could be released as a result of a terrorism attack. These optional requirements can be selected by firedepartments that are concerne

45、d about first response of their personnel to such WMD incidents where “normal” firefighting protective ensembles offer little or no protection from CBRN terrorism agents, and where supplementaryprotective ensembles that are certified as compliant with NFPA 1994, Standard on Protective Ensembles for

46、First Respondersto CBRN Terrorism Incidents, for protection from CBRN terrorism agents are unlikely to be provided to the vast majorityof fire fighting first responders.The CBRN optional protection can be applied only to an entire ensemble, including the specified CBRN SCBA forthat ensemble, and can

47、not be applied to individual ensemble elements. The design and performance of the entireensemble including the CBRN SCBA provides the CBRN protection for the wearer and depends on the proper use ofthe entire ensemble to accomplish this protection. No combination of individual ensemble elements short

48、 of theentire assembled ensemble will give CBRN protection.These optional CBRN requirements that apply to both structural fire fighting protective ensembles and proximityfire fighting protective ensembles are built into the construction of the “basic” fire fighting protective ensembleelements so tha

49、t nothing has to be added to or subtracted from the basic fire fighting protective clothing in order toachieve the protection from CBRN terrorism agents. The optional CBRN requirements do not decrease any of theprotection for the fire fighting environments in which these ensembles are used.The 2007 edition was presented to the Association membership at the 2006 Association Annual Meeting in Orlando,Florida, on June 7, 2006, and issued by the Standards Council with an effective date of August 17, 2006.The 2013 edition o