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12、 Services 2017 Edition This edition of NFPA 1983, Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services, was prepared by the Technical Committee on Special Operations Protective Clothing and Equipment and released by the Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clo
13、thing and Equipment. It was issued by the Standards Council on November 11, 2016, with an effective date of December 1, 2016, and supersedes all previous editions. This document has been amended by one or more Tentative Interim Amendments (TIAs) and/or Errata. See “Codes & Standards” at www.nfpa.org
14、 for more information. This edition of NFPA 1983 was approved as an American National Standard on December 1, 2016. Origin and Development of NFPA 1983 The Technical Committee on Protective Equipment for Fire Fighters (later renamed Technical Committee on Fire Service Protective Clothing and Equipme
15、nt) began work on this standard in 1982 in answer to requests from the re service to establish requirements for rope used by the re service to perform rescues. During the development of the standard, harnesses and hardware used with the rope in rescue operations were included. The work was completed
16、 in the spring of 1984 and submitted to NFPA for ofcial adoption. The rst edition was issued on June 6, 1985. The Subcommittee on Life Safety Ropes began revision of the 1985 edition in late 1987 and turned over its proposals to the Technical Committee in December 1988. The Technical Committee compl
17、eted its work on the document in April 1989, and it was submitted for the Annual Meeting 1990 cycle. The second edition was issued on July 20, 1990. During 1993, NFPA restructured the manner in which committees were organized, and all standing subcommittees were eliminated. Within the Technical Comm
18、ittee on Fire Service Protective Clothing and Equipment, the former standing subcommittees were reorganized as task groups to address specic technical issues, and the technical committee assumed the entire responsibility for NFPA 1983. In October 1994, just after the revisions for the third edition
19、were completed, the Standards Council appointed the Technical Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment to oversee all re and emergency services protective clothing and equipment issues. The existing Technical Committee on Fire Service Protective Clothing
20、 and Equipment had ceased to exist in May 1995, and seven new technical committees, each responsible for a different segment of the re and emergency services protective clothing and equipment spectrum, were now in place. The future responsibility for NFPA 1983 would now rest with the new Technical C
21、ommittee on Special Operations Protective Clothing and Equipment, operating under the Technical Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment. The third (1995) edition of NFPA 1983 was a complete revision of the document. The document was reformatted to prese
22、nt the certication requirements, the product labeling and user information requirements, the design requirements, the performance requirements, and the testing requirements in separate chapters. A different approach was taken to life safety rope and the various items used in conjunction with the rop
23、e. While the life safety rope remained as the key subject of the document, other items used in conjunction with the rope were addressed as system components.LIFE SAFETY ROPE AND EQUIPMENT FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES 1983-2 2017 Edition The 1995 edition also included new criteria for personal escape rope
24、to cover a type of life safety rope carried by re ghters/rescuers and used only for re ghter/rescuer escape or self-rescue in critical entrapment situations where the rope would provide the only viable means of escape. There were also new criteria, in addition to the harness requirements, for two ty
25、pes of belts: one intended for use to position a re ghter on a ladder and a second type for escape/self-rescue using a life safety rope. Denitions were expanded to provide better understanding of terms. The testing requirements were greatly expanded to provide the criteria with which to evaluate per
26、formance and to determine pass/fail. The 1995 edition was acted on by the membership of the Association at the Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, on May 24, 1995, and was issued with an effective date of August 11, 1995. The fourth (2001) edition of NFPA 1983 added a new type of rope a throwline, w
27、hich is a oating rope intended to be thrown to a person in water or used as a tether for rescuers during water rescue incidents. New requirements for pulleys and portable anchors were also added to the 2001 edition as new items of system components. The former terminology for one- person and two-per
28、son load classications was changed to a simpler load classication based on the weight that the rope or system is designed to support. In the 2001 edition, testing methods for descent control devices were modied to provide more accurate testing for the three types of descenders. Other testing modicat
29、ions were made throughout Chapter 6 to clarify testing methods and improve reproducibility of testing results. Also included were new requirements for improved product quality assurance through manufacturers being registered as compliant with the ISO and accreditation of certication laboratories. An
30、nual product evaluation, testing, and recertication were also added. All three of those new criteria were directed to raise the bar for product and certication quality and to provide a better level of safety for the end users. Throughout the 2001 edition, modications to existing text were made in th
31、e continuing attempt to make the document clearer, less ambiguous, and easier to use by both manufacturers and certication organizations. This process continues during every revision cycle, and the input received from document users is helpful in xing many of these issues. The 2001 edition was acted
32、 on by the Association membership at the Fall Meeting in Orlando, Florida, on November 15, 2000, and was issued with an effective date of February 9, 2001. For the fth (2006) edition of NFPA1983, the title of the document was changed to Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Servic
33、es, to reect the broader audience for this type of equipment. The 2006 edition continued to rene design and performance criteria and test methods. The former approach of system components was changed to all items being independent and tested according to the type of use to which they could be subjec
34、ted. Labeling requirements were specied for items that can have detachable components to better advise the user to be sure that all components are assembled properly in order to safely use the equipment. Throughout the 2006 edition document, modications to existing text were made in the continuing a
35、ttempt to make the document clearer, less ambiguous, and easier to use by both manufacturers and the certication organizations. This process continues during every revision cycle and the input received from document users has been very helpful in xing many of these issues. The 2006 edition was issue
36、d by the NFPA Standards Council on January 27, 2006, with an effective date of February 16, 2006. The 2012 (sixth) edition of NFPA 1983 featured editorial changes, new denitions, and current terminology. Several new performance requirements were added to Chapter 7, including those for litters, escap
37、e webbing, re escape webbing, victim extrication devices, escape systems, re escape rope, manufacturer-supplied eye termination, moderate elongation laid life saving rope, belay devices, and escape anchor devices. The related test methods for those items were added to Chapter 8. For the 2017 (sevent
38、h) edition, the Technical Committee has completely reorganized the document and matched up the requirements in Chapters 5, 6, and 7 to make it easier for the user to follow and understand. They also have made corresponding changes in Chapter 1 to the scope and purpose of the standard. This reorganization marked the rst step in developing the proposed standard NFPA 1858, a selection, care, and maintenance document that will complement NFPA 1983.
