While studying the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code — a standard designed to help protect people during fires by ensuring safe exits, proper detection systems and clear evacuation routes — one recent ...

Two NFPA consensus standards are used to ensure workplace safety following electrical equipment installation. Many are familiar with the NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.

April 29, 2024 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a self-funded nonprofit that develops over 300 fire, life and electrical safety standards, praised the bipartisan passage of the Pro ...

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Alice Epstein, director of risk control at CNA HealthPro, presented on compliance essentials for the life safety code in ...

Residents of Maryland will soon be protected by the most up-to-date editions of two key life safety codes. The 2015 editions of NFPA 1, Fire Code and NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, are both part of the ...

Picking up from my last article in the June 2019 issue, I will explore some context for real-world life safety applications. In this article, I’ll focus on complying with NFPA 99 (Section references ...

The awards were presented at the Stars at Night awards gala held on June 18, in Las Vegas, as part of the annual NFPA Conference and Expo. The Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal, an award that ...

In response to changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Life Safety Code, CannonDesign has launched REALIZE Life Safety Solutions — a suite of services and software solutions ...

For almost 100 years, these codes focused solely on new construction. However, in the 1960s, the historic preservation movement in the United States coalesced at both the state and federal levels, ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Fire Protection Association of New Zealand (FPANZ) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that ...