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30、 Rights Reserved. NFPA 1221 Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications Systems 2016 Edition This edition of NFPA 1221, Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications Systems, was prepared by the Technical Committ
31、ee on Public Emergency Service Communication. It was issued by the Standards Council on May 26, 2015, with an effective date of June 15, 2015, and supersedes all previous editions. A Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) adding new denitions (3.3.6, 3.3.7, 3.3.14, 3.3.62, and 3.3.75), a new Section 8.6,
32、 and corresponding Annex A material was issued on August 18, 2015. For further information on tentative interim amendments, see Section 5 of the Regulations Governing the Development of NFPA Standards, available at http:/www.nfpa.org/regs. This edition of NFPA 1221 was approved as an American Nation
33、al Standard on June 15, 2015. Origin and Development of NFPA 1221 NFPA 1221, Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications Systems, dates back to 1898. Originally, it was part of a general standard on signaling systems, but the material on municipal re alar
34、m systems was separated from the general standard in 1911. This standard has been revised and reissued in editions dated 1904, 1911, 1926, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002, and 2007. T
35、he 1999 edition of NFPA 1221 was a result of very hard work by committee members, especially the previous chairman, Evan E. Stauffer, Jr. The goal of the committee was to completely rewrite the standard to reect an emergence of joint communications centers, the increase in technology-based informati
36、on systems that assist users in both the communications center and the eld of operations, and the role communications play in emergency scene operations within the Incident Command System. To reect the fact that NFPA 1221 is applicable to all emergency responders, not just the re service, the title
37、was changed from Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Public Fire Service Communication Systems to Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Communication Systems. The 2002 edition of this document continued to enhance the capabilities of personnel assigned t
38、o communications centers as well as the interoperability of systems. Because technology is continually changing, committee members began to assess potential changes to the next edition of this standard. It was recognized that it is incumbent on both users and enforcers of this standard to understand
39、 the impact of the standard, both in the area of service delivery and on the safety of those emergency response personnel delivering services. Competing interests and priorities in a communications center need to be addressed by the authority having jurisdiction to develop standard operating procedu
40、res on how calls for service are processed, dispatched, and tracked. The mission of the communications center should be to serve as a conduit between those requesting services and those providing the services. This standard with its current revisions provides the requirements to accomplish that miss
41、ion. The 2007 edition of NFPA 1221 was a complete revision incorporating the requirements of the Manual of Style for NFPA Technical Committee Documents. As part of the 2007 revision, the committee restructured several chapters and added a new chapter on data network security and several new sections
42、. Subsequently, all chapters were renumbered to accommodate those changes. The entire document was reviewed and editorially updated to clarify requirements and ambiguous language. InINSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, AND USE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS 1221-2 2016 Edition addition, the titl
43、e of the document was again changed, to Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications Systems. The 2010 edition of NFPA 1221 added requirements to include an emergency re plan to safeguard personnel and minimize disruption of vital public safety communicati
44、ons. New communication centers and the buildings in which they are located were now required to be protected from the approach of unauthorized vehicles or to have the building designed to be blast resistant. The committee also addressed the need for reliable in-building tactical emergency communicat
45、ions by developing performance requirements for two-way radio communication enhancement systems. The 2013 edition of NFPA 1221 added a section on retroactivity that allowed the authority having jurisdiction to require the application of any provision of the document. The committee also addressed an
46、important alarm processing issue in the 2013 edition. NFPA staff had been receiving frequent calls from emergency services about alarm processing times that exceeded the time allotted in the standard. These alarm calls required more time to process because dispatchers and call takers were required t
47、o gather additional information before dispatching the appropriate resources. The committee addressed the issue by including six categories of calls that require additional time to process within the standard. The 2016 edition of NFPA 1221 includes requirements regarding two-way radio communications
48、 enhancement systems and pathway survivability from NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, that the committees of both standards felt are more appropriate to NFPA 1221. Additionally, call processing times have been revisited, resulting in a change to the emergency call processing timeline
49、in the alarm processing section to include verication. The change addresses improvements to the technologies whereby telecommunicators receive emergency calls and the time it takes to verify the location of the emergency prior to processing. A requirement that two telecommunicators be on duty in the communications center at all times is another change made to the 2016 edition. Two additional categories of calls requiring additional time to process at the public safety answering point (PSAP) also have been added.COMMITTEE PERSONNEL 1221-3 2016 Edition Technica
