NFPA 1982-2018 Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS) (Effective Date 11 30 2017).pdf

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32、) 2018 Edition This edition of NFPA 1982, Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS), was prepared by the Technical Committee on Electronic Safety Equipment and released by the Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment. It was issued by the Standard

33、s Council on November 10, 2017, with an effective date of November 30, 2017, and supersedes all previous editions. This edition of NFPA 1982 was approved as an American National Standard on November 30, 2017. Origin and Development of NFPA 1982 The Technical Committee on Protective Equipment for Fir

34、e Fighters began work on this standard in 1980 in answer to requests from the re service to establish requirements for a device that would sound an audible signal for aid if a re ghter became incapacitated while operating at an emergency. The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) was ins

35、trumental in the developmental work that resulted in this standard. Developmental work was completed in the spring of 1982 and submitted to the NFPA for ofcial adoption. The rst edition was presented at the Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, and released on June 9, 1983. Between the rst and se

36、cond editions, the name of the technical committee was changed to the Technical Committee on Fire Service Protective Clothing and Equipment, and the Subcommittee on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS) was organized to manage this document. The second edition was presented to the membership of the A

37、ssociation at the 1988 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California, and had an effective date of June 28, 1988. For the third edition, the Subcommittee on PASS undertook a complete revision of its work, which was completed in December 1991. The document was passed on to the Technical Committee on Fire

38、 Service Protective Clothing and Equipment, presented to the membership of the Association at the 1993 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, and was issued with an effective date of August 20, 1993. In January 1995, the Standards Council reorganized the entire project for re service protective clothin

39、g and equipment. The new project had a Technical Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment and seven technical committees operating within the project. The former standing Subcommittee on PASS was combined with the Subcommittee on SCBA to form the new Tec

40、hnical Committee on Respiratory Protection and Personal Alarm Equipment, which took over the responsibility for NFPA 1982. The fourth edition represented a complete revision of the third edition and included PASS that are integrated with SCBA and automatic activation of all PASS. It was presented to

41、 the membership of the Association at the 1998 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had an effective date of August 5, 1998. In October 2002, the NFPA Standards Council established a new committee, the Technical Committee on Electronic Safety Equipment, within the project structure. This new comm

42、ittee was given the responsibility for addressing all electronics in equipment used by emergency responders and was assigned responsibility for NFPA 1982. The fth edition of NFPA 1982 was a complete revision of the fourth edition. During this revision cycle, the Committee received reports from the N

43、ational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Division of Safety Research on its investigations of re-ghter fatalities where there was evidence the PASS alarm signal failed to function or was not heard by other personnel in thePERSONAL ALERT SAFETY SYSTEMS (PASS) 1982-2 2018 Edition a

44、rea, and in some instances that there was water ingress to the electronic components that diminished or canceled the alarm signal. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Building and Fire Research Laboratory partnered with NIOSH to characterize the performance of PASS devices in

45、the re-ghting environment. NIST determined that exposure to high-temperature environments reduced the loudness of the alarm signal. That reduction in loudness can cause the alarm signal to become indistinguishable from background noise at an emergency scene. Initial laboratory testing by NIST highli

46、ghted that this sound reduction could begin to occur at temperatures as low as 149C (300F). All PASS devices that were evaluated experienced signicant alarm signal degradation at temperatures between 149C and 260C (300F and 500F). As the PASS cooled, the alarm signal on most of the units returned to

47、 pre-exposure sound levels. NIOSH and others also noted that water ingress did occur or could have occurred in several cases, causing the alarm signal to cease to function effectively, but that after the PASS electronics dried, the alarm signal would again function. The Committee addressed these iss

48、ues and others and developed changes to the requirements for the fth edition. More signicant changes were the following: (1) New water immersion requirements and testing where PASS is exposed to 177C (350F) for 15 minutes and then to water submersion in 1.5 m (4.9 ft) also for 15 minutes for each of

49、 six cycles. PASS is then examined to determine no water ingress, that all PASS signals function properly, and that electronic data logging functions operate properly. PASS is then reimmersed in the test water for an additional 5 minutes with the power source compartment(s) open; after those 5 minutes, the PASS is removed from water and wiped dry, and the electronics compartment is opened and examined to determine no water ingress. (2) Revised high-temperature resistance requirements and added new high-temperature functionality requireme