NFPA 1 Handbook 2018

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NFPA 1: Fire Code Handbook

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Written for AHJs and updated to reflect 130 referenced NFPA® codes and standards, NFPA 1: Fire Code Handbook includes the expert commentary and code requirements you need to efficiently verify compliance. Today’s NFPA 1: Fire Code references more than 130 NFPA codes and standards and includes direct extracts from 50+ documents. Get the answers and support every AHJ needs on the job in the exclusive NFPA 1: Fire Code Handbook. Updated for the 2018 edition of the Code, this full-color resource helps you give your community the high level of protection it deserves. The NFPA 1: Fire Code Handbook incorporates a wealth of information from numerous experts on a wide array of safety-related topics, so you’re prepared to answer questions, resolve issues, and make the right decisions about fire safety in new and existing buildings. Access the full NFPA 1: Fire Code text, full-color visuals, and commentary on extracted and referenced codes and standards such as NFPA 101® and NFPA 30. Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) are required to have comprehensive knowledge about the A-Z of fire and life safety issues. The Handbook has it all — including code and standard text, commentary, and hundreds of visuals addressing all types of occupancies and both new and existing conditions. It’s a one-stop resource for: The full 2018 edition of NFPA 1: Fire Code text with up-to-date extracts from more than 50 NFPA codes and standards Expert commentary, printed in color, that explains the rationale behind provisions. Work with real-world examples of how to apply requirements in specific situations. 350+ visuals including full-color photographs that clarify concepts plus 2-color charts, tables, and illustrations New content addressing a wide range of issues, including bulk CO2 safety, code application at marijuana process and extraction facilities, safety around energy storage systems, mobile and temporary cooking operations, rapid shutdown marking for PV installations, storage of wood and composite pallets, and much more Time-saving indexes to help you locate information fast NFPA 1 Forms and Forms that are downloadable from your NFPA Profile Advance your technical knowledge with NFPA 1: Fire Code support. Whether you’re a code official, inspector, fire marshal, AHJ, facility manager, or anyone concerned with public safety, the 2018 edition of the NFPA 1 Handbook is indispensable to better public safety and code compliance.

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PDF Pages	PDF Title
1	Cover
2	Copyright
3	Contents
11	Preface
13	Acknowledgments
15	About the Editor
17	Introduction
19	NFPA 1 Summary ofTechnical Changes: 2015 to 2018
31	1 Administration 1.1 Scope
32	1.2 Purpose 1.3 Application
34	1.4 Equivalencies, Alternatives, and Modifications
37	1.5 Units 1.6 Enforcement 1.7 Authority
43	1.8 Duties and Powers of the Incident Commander
44	1.9 Liability 1.10 Fire Code Board of Appeals
47	1.11 Records and Reports
48	1.12 Permits and Approvals
57	1.13 Certificates of Fitness
62	1.14 Plan Review
63	1.15 Technical Assistance
64	1.16 Notice of Violations and Penalties
65	1.17 Permit Fees
67	2 Referenced Publications 2.1 General 2.2 NFPA Publications
71	2.3 Other Publications
75	2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections
77	3 Definitions 3.1 General 3.2 NFPA Official Definitions
78	3.3 General Definitions
133	3.4 Special Performance-Based Definitions
137	4 General Requirements 4.1 Goals and Objectives
142	4.2 Assumptions 4.3 Compliance Options
143	4.4 Fundamental Requirements
144	4.5 General Requirements
149	5 Performance-Based Option 5.1 General
155	5.2 Performance Criteria
157	5.3 Retained Prescriptive Requirements 5.4 Design Scenarios
164	5.5 Evaluation of Proposed Designs
165	5.6 Safety Factors
166	5.7 Documentation Requirements
169	6 Classification of Occupancy 6.1 Classification of Occupancy
189	7 Reserved 8 Reserved 9 Reserved
191	10 General Safety Requirements 10.1 Fundamental Requirements
192	10.2 Owner/Occupant Responsibilities
193	10.3 Occupancy
194	10.4 Building Evacuation
195	10.5 Fire Drills 10.6 Reporting of Fires and Other Emergencies
196	10.7 Tampering with Fire Safety Equipment 10.8 Emergency Action Plans
200	10.9 Smoking
201	10.10 Open Flames, Candles, Open Fires, and Incinerators
203	10.11 Fire Protection Markings
208	10.12 Seasonal and Vacant Buildings and Premises
209	10.13 Combustible Vegetation
211	10.14 Special Outdoor Events, Carnivals, and Fairs
220	10.15 Outside Storage 10.16 Parade Floats 10.17 Powered Industrial Trucks 10.18 Storage of Combustible Materials
221	10.19 Indoor Children’s Playground Structures
225	11 Building Services 11.1 Electrical Fire Safety
228	11.2 Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning 11.3 Elevators, Escalators, and Conveyors
230	11.4 Utilities 11.5 Heating Appliances
233	11.6 Waste Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry Chutes
234	11.7 Stationary Generators and Standby Power Systems
236	11.8 Smoke Control
237	11.9 Emergency Command Center
238	11.10 Two-Way Radio Communication Enhancement Systems
239	11.11 Medical Gas and Vacuum Systems 11.12 Photovoltaic Systems
245	12 Features of Fire Protection 12.1 General 12.2 Construction
248	12.3 Fire-Resistive Materials and Construction
250	12.4 Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives
261	12.5 Interior Finish
274	12.6 Contents and Furnishings
278	12.7 Fire Barriers
288	12.8 Smoke Partitions
289	12.9 Smoke Barriers
295	13 Fire Protection Systems 13.1 General
297	13.2 Standpipe Systems
298	13.3 Automatic Sprinklers
340	13.4 Fire Pumps
357	13.5 Water Supply 13.6 Portable Fire Extinguishers
389	13.7 Detection, Alarm, and Communications Systems
487	13.8 Other Fire Protection Systems 13.9 Non-Listed Fire Protection or Suppression Devices and Equipment
489	14 Means of Egress
491	14.1 Application 14.2 Exit Access Corridors
492	14.3 Exits
497	14.4 Means of Egress Reliability
499	14.5 Door Openings
522	14.6 Enclosure and Protection of Stairs
524	14.7 Exit Passageways
527	14.8 Capacity of Means of Egress
536	14.9 Number of Means of Egress
541	14.10 Arrangement of Means of Egress
551	14.11 Discharge from Exits
555	14.12 Illumination of Means of Egress
557	14.13 Emergency Lighting
558	14.14 Marking of Means of Egress
566	14.15 Secondary Means of Escape
569	15 Fire Department Service Delivery Concurrency Evaluation 15.1 Application 15.2 Level of Service Objectives
570	15.3 Evaluator Qualifications 15.4 Fire Department Service Delivery Concurrency Evaluation Documentation 15.5 Independent Review 15.6 Approval
573	16 Safeguarding Construction, Alteration, and Demolition Operations 16.1 General Requirements
574	16.2 Processes and Hazards
576	16.3 Fire Protection
580	16.4 Safeguarding Construction and Alteration Operations
582	16.5 Fire Safety During Demolition 16.6 Torch-Applied Roofing Systems 16.7 Tar Kettles and Rubberized Asphalt Melters
586	16.8 Asbestos Removal
587	17 Wildland Urban Interface
588	17.1 General
600	17.2 Plans
601	17.3 Wildland Fire–Prone Areas
607	18 Fire Department Access and Water Supply 18.1 General 18.2 Fire Department Access
616	18.3 Water Supplies 18.4 Fire Flow Requirements for Buildings
622	18.5 Fire Hydrants
627	19 Combustible Waste and Refuse 19.1 General
628	19.2 Combustible Waste and Refuse
631	20 Occupancy Fire Safety 20.1 Assembly Occupancies
643	20.2 Educational Occupancies
647	20.3 Day-Care Occupancies
651	20.4 Health Care Occupancies
659	20.5 Residential Board and Care Occupancies
662	20.6 Ambulatory Health Care Centers
667	20.7 Detention and Correctional Occupancies
671	20.8 Hotels and Dormitories
673	20.9 Apartment Buildings
676	20.10 Lodging or Rooming Houses
677	20.11 One- and Two-Family Dwellings and Manufactured Housing
678	20.12 Mercantile Occupancies
679	20.13 Business Occupancies
680	20.14 Industrial Occupancies
682	20.15 Storage Occupancies
683	20.16 Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings
684	20.17 Historic Buildings and Cultural Resources
687	21 Airports and Heliports 21.1 Hangars
688	21.2 Terminals
691	21.3 Rooftop Heliport Construction and Protection
697	22 Automobile Wrecking Yards 22.1 General 22.2 Permits 22.3 Fire Department Access Roads 22.4 Welding and Cutting 22.5 Housekeeping 22.6 Fire Extinguishers 22.7 Tire Storage 22.8 Burning Operations 22.9 Motor Vehicle Fluids and Hazardous Materials
699	23 Cleanrooms 23.1 General 23.2 Applicability 23.3 Permits
701	24 Drycleaning 24.1 General 24.2 Permits
703	25 Grandstands and Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating, Tents, and Membrane Structures 25.1 General
707	25.2 Tents
710	25.3 Grandstands
713	25.4 Folding and Telescopic Seating
714	25.5 Permanent Membrane Structures
715	25.6 Temporary Membrane Structures
719	26 Laboratories Using Chemicals 26.1 General
720	26.2 Permits
723	27 Manufactured Home and Recreational Vehicle Sites 27.1 General 27.2 Manufactured Home Sites 27.3 Recreational Vehicle Parks and Campgrounds
725	28 Marinas, Boatyards, Marine Terminals, Piers, and Wharves 28.1 Marinas, Boatyards, and Other Recreational Marine Facilities
731	28.2 Marine Terminals, Piers, and Wharves
732	28.3 Construction, Conversion, Repair, and Lay-Up of Vessels
733	29 Parking Garages 29.1 General
735	30 Motor Fuel Dispensing Facilities and Repair Garages 30.1 Motor Fuel Dispensing Facilities
737	30.2 Repair Garages
740	30.3 Operational Requirements
743	31 Forest Products and Biomass Feedstocks 31.1 General 31.2 Permits 31.3 Protection of Storage of Forest Products
755	32 Motion Picture and Television Production Studio Soundstages and Approved Production Facilities
756	32.1 General 32.2 Permits 32.3 Housekeeping 32.4 Soundstages and Approved Production Facilities
760	32.5 Production Locations
762	32.6 Operating Features
763	33 Outside Storage of Tires 33.1 General
765	33.2 Individual Piles
766	33.3 Emergency Response Plan 33.4 Fire Control Measures 33.5 Site Access 33.6 Signs and Security
767	33.7 Outdoor Storage of Altered Tire Material
769	34 General Storage 34.1 General
770	34.2 Classification of Commodities
781	34.3 Building Construction
784	34.4 Storage Arrangement
785	34.5 General Fire Protection
787	34.6 Building Equipment, Maintenance, and Operations
789	34.7 Protection of Rack Storage
793	34.8 Protection of Rubber Tires
796	34.9 Protection of Roll Paper 34.10 Storage of Idle Pallets
801	35 Animal Housing Facilities 35.1 General 35.2 Permits
803	36 Telecommunication Facilities and Information Technology Equipment 36.1 General
805	37 Fixed Guideway Transit and Passenger Rail Systems 37.1 General
807	38 Marijuana Growing, Processing, or Extraction Facilities 38.1 Application
808	38.2 Permits 38.3 Fire Protection Systems 38.4 Means of Egress 38.5 Growing or Production of Marijuana
809	38.6 Processing or Extraction
814	38.7 Transfilling
815	39 Reserved
817	40 Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention 40.1 Application
826	40.2 Permits 40.3 Retroactivity 40.4 General
827	40.5 Operating Procedures and Practices 40.6 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance
828	40.7 Training and Hazard Awareness 40.8 Contractors
829	40.9 Emergency Planning and Response 40.10 Incident Investigation
830	40.11 Management of Change 40.12 Documentation Retention
831	40.13 Management Systems Review 40.14 Employee Participation
833	41 Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work 41.1 General
835	41.2 Responsibility for Hot Work
837	41.3 Fire Prevention Precautions
844	41.4 Sole Proprietors and Individual Operators
845	41.5 Public Exhibitions and Demonstrations
847	41.6 Arc Welding Equipment
849	42 Refueling 42.1 General 42.2 Automotive Fuel Servicing
850	42.3 Storage of Liquids
860	42.4 Piping for Liquids
862	42.5 Fuel Dispensing Systems
870	42.6 Building Construction Requirements 42.7 Operational Requirements
876	42.8 Additional Requirements for CNG, LNG, Hydrogen, and LPG
879	42.9 Marine Fueling
883	42.10 Aircraft Fuel Servicing
911	42.11 Alternate Fuels
917	43 Spraying, Dipping, and Coating Using Flammable or Combustible Materials 43.1 Application
944	43.2 Automated Electrostatic Spray Equipment
945	43.3 Handheld Electrostatic Spray Equipment 43.4 Drying, Curing, or Fusion Processes 43.5 Miscellaneous Spray Operations
947	43.6 Powder Coating 43.7 Organic Peroxides and Plural Component Coatings
948	43.8 Styrene Cross-Linked Composites Manufacturing (Glass Fiber–Reinforced Plastics
949	43.9 Dipping, Coating, and Printing Processes
951	43.10 Training
953	44 Solvent Extraction 44.1 General 44.2 Application
954	44.3 Permits 44.4 Special Requirements
955	45 Combustible Fibers 45.1 General 45.2 Electrical Wiring 45.3 No Smoking 45.4 Vehicles and Material Handling Equipment
957	45.5 Loose Storage of Combustible Fibers
958	45.6 Baled Storage
959	45.7 Storage of Hay, Straw, and Other Similar Agricultural Products 45.8 Hazardous Materials
961	46 Reserved 47 Reserved 48 Reserved 49 Reserved
963	50 Commercial Cooking
964	50.1 Application
965	50.2 General Requirements
971	50.3 Protection of Coverings and Enclosure Materials 50.4 Fire-Extinguishing Equipment
983	50.5 Procedures for the Use, Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Equipment
989	50.6 Minimum Safety Requirements for Cooking Equipment
991	50.7 Mobile and Temporary Cooking Operations
1005	51 Industrial Ovens and Furnaces 51.1 General
1009	51.2 Location 51.3 Safety Controls
1015	52 Energy Storage Systems 52.1 General
1016	52.2 Lead-Acid and Nickel-Cadmium Batteries
1019	52.3 Additional Battery Technologies
1027	53 Mechanical Refrigeration 53.1 General
1028	53.2 Safety Features
1033	53.3 Operations, Maintenance, Testing, and Decommissioning
1037	54 Ozone Gas–Generating Equipment 54.1 Scope 54.2 Location
1038	54.3 Piping, Valves, and Fittings 54.4 Automatic Shutdown 54.5 Manual Shutdown
1039	55 Cleaning and Purging of Flammable Gas Piping Systems 55.1 Application
1041	56 Reserved 57 Reserved 58 Reserved 59 Reserved
1043	60 Hazardous Materials
1045	60.1 General Requirements
1048	60.2 Special Definitions 60.3 Classification of Materials, Wastes, and Hazard of Contents
1050	60.4 Permissible Storage and Use Locations
1068	60.5 Fundamental Requirements
1077	60.6 Emergency Action Planning, Fire Risk Control and Chemical Hazard Requirements for Industrial Processes 60.7 Performance Alternative
1079	61 Aerosol Products 61.1 General Provisions
1082	61.2 Basic Requirements
1084	61.3 Storage in Warehouses and Storage Areas
1089	61.4 Mercantile Occupancies
1091	61.5 Operations and Maintenance
1093	62 Reserved
1095	63 Compressed Gases and Cryogenic Fluids 63.1 General Provisions
1098	63.2 Building-Related Controls
1105	63.3 Compressed Gases
1129	63.4 Cryogenic Fluids
1141	63.5 Bulk Oxygen Systems 63.6 Gas Hydrogen Systems 63.7 Bulk Liquefied Hydrogen Systems 63.8 Gas Generation Systems 63.9 Insulated Liquid Carbon Dioxide Systems
1144	63.10 Storage, Handling, and Use of Ethylene Oxide for Sterilization and Fumigation 63.11 Liquid Oxygen in Home Care
1147	64 Corrosive Solids and Liquids 64.1 General
1149	65 Explosives, Fireworks, and Model Rocketry
1150	65.1 General 65.2 Display Fireworks
1151	65.3 Pyrotechnics Before a Proximate Audience
1153	65.4 Flame Effects Before an Audience
1154	65.5 Fireworks Manufacturing 65.6 Model Rocketry
1155	65.7 Rocketry Manufacturing
1156	65.8 High Power Rocketry 65.9 Explosives
1159	66 Flammable and Combustible Liquids 66.1 General
1161	66.2 Reserved 66.3 Definitions
1163	66.4 Definition and Classification of Liquids
1167	66.5 Reserved 66.6 Fire and Explosion Prevention and Risk Control
1172	66.7 Electrical Systems
1178	66.8 Application of Area Classification 66.9 Storage of Liquids in Containers — General Requirements
1197	66.10 Reserved 66.11 Reserved 66.12 Reserved 66.13 Reserved 66.14 Hazardous Materials Storage Lockers
1201	66.15 Outdoor Storage
1204	66.16 Automatic Fire Protection for Inside Liquid Storage Areas
1233	66.17 Processing Facilities
1239	66.18 Dispensing, Handling, Transfer, and Use of Liquids
1242	66.19 Specific Operations
1253	66.20 Reserved 66.21 Storage of Liquids in Tanks — Requirements for All Storage Tanks
1266	66.22 Storage of Liquids in Tanks — Aboveground Storage Tanks
1282	66.23 Storage of Liquids in Tanks — Underground Tanks
1285	66.24 Storage Tank Buildings
1291	66.25 Storage Tank Vaults
1295	66.26 Reserved 66.27 Piping Systems
1304	66.28 Bulk Loading and Unloading Facilities for Tank Cars and Tank Vehicles
1309	66.29 Wharves
1315	67 Flammable Solids 67.1 General
1317	68 Highly Toxic and Toxic Solids and Liquids
1318	68.1 General
1319	69 Liquefied Petroleum Gases and Liquefied Natural Gases 69.1 General Provisions
1320	69.2 LP-Gas Equipment and Appliances
1329	69.3 Installation of LP-Gas Systems
1363	69.4 LP-Gas Liquid Transfer
1374	69.5 Storage of Cylinders Awaiting Use, Resale, or Exchange
1382	69.6 Vehicular Transportation of LP-Gas
1387	69.7 LP-Gases at Utility Plants 69.8 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Facilities
1389	70 Oxidizer Solids and Liquids 70.1 General
1391	71 Pyrophoric Solids and Liquids 71.1 General
1393	72 Unstable (Reactive) Solids and Liquids 72.1 General
1395	73 Water-Reactive Solids and Liquids 73.1 General
1397	74 Ammonium Nitrate 74.1 General
1399	75 Organic Peroxide Solids and Liquids 75.1 General
1401	Annexes A Explanatory Material
1403	B Hazardous Materials Classifications
1431	C Sample Ordinance Adopting the NFPA 1, Fire Code
1433	D Hazardous Materials Management Plans and Hazardous Materials Inventory Statements
1445	E Fire Fighter Safety Building Marking System
1449	F Fire Fighter Breathing-Air Replenishment Systems
1451	G Informational References
1459	Index
1501	Important Notices and Legal Disclaimers