• The publication Life Safety Code, known as NFPA 101, is a consensus standard widely adopted in the United States.[clarification needed] It is administered...
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  • International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets out minimum safety standards in the construction...
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    make presentations. Fire safety policies apply at the construction of a building and throughout its operating life. Building codes are enacted by local,...
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    A safety-critical system or life-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in one (or more) of the following outcomes: death...
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    OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS, 29 cfr 1910.36 National Fire Protection Association 101, Life Safety Code, 2012; 2011 NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE (NEC)...
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    sides, the corridor must be at least 10 feet wide. Carson, Chip. "The Life Safety Code and health care corridor width". www.nfpa.org. Archived from the original...
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    Building Exits Code was retitled the Code for Safety to Life from Fire in 1966, which was further developed and re-titled as the Life Safety Code. The Winecoff...
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  • IMDG Code or International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code is accepted by MSC (Maritime Safety Committee) as an international guideline to the safe transportation...
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  • Parts in Devices and Appliances The Life Safety Code (NFPA 101) and Section 803.1 of the International Building Code limit finishes for interior walls and...
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    the requirements in the Life Safety Code such as in stair building and building codes to promote long-term quality and safety for the building occupants...
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    Fire drill (category Safety drills)
    front of the building. The General Assembly of Illinois also passed life safety codes in response to the fire at Our Lady of the Angels. Things such as...
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  • point, although this is no substitute for testing if the fire point is safety critical. Testing of the fire point is done by open cup apparatus. Autoignition...
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  • standards. The NEC should not be confused with the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...
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    protection: life safety property protection continuity of operations Bulkhead (partition) Wisegeek.com article on fire compartments Province of Alberta Code Interpretation...
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    Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare...
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  • Life critical system Coding conventions Software quality Software assurance G.J. Holzmann (2006-06-19). "The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical...
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    California Health and Safety Code is the codification of general statutory law covering the subject areas of health and safety in the state of California...
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    several companion codes such as the National Electrical Code, NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, Uniform Plumbing Code, Uniform Mechanical Code, and NFPA 1. Unlike...
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    Emergency exit (redirect from Safety exit)
    with only a single obvious exit through a revolving door. Building codes and life safety regulations were extensively reformed in the US in the following...
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    vestibule doors (if provided) with a 1.5 hour fire resistance rating. The Life Safety Code states that such stairwells be "approved systems with a design pressure...
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  • NFPA 70E (category Electrical safety)
    for publishing the National Electrical Code (NFPA 70). NFPA 70E addresses employee workplace electrical safety requirements. The standard focuses on practical...
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    Colored fire Deflagration Fire making Fire pit Fire whirl Flame test Life Safety Code List of fire deities List of fires List of light sources Piano burning...
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  • Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 13 (127). International Code Council - 2015 International Building Code National Building Code of Canada...
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    of national and international standards organisations. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the United States Department of Labor...
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    regulate code for "assembly occupancies". Based upon its work, Tentative Interim Amendments (TIAs) were issued for the national standard "Life Safety Code" (NFPA...
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    Deflagration (category Process safety)
    alternative to high explosives. When studying or discussing explosive safety, or the safety of systems containing explosives, the terms deflagration, detonation...
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  • for the flammable decorations or the life safety code violations. He was nevertheless ostracized for much of his life because of the fire. Tomaszewski died...
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    SOS (category Morse code)
    the London International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea adopted as the "Safety Signal" the Morse code sequence "TTT"  ▄▄▄  ▄▄▄  ▄▄▄  (three "T's"...
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  • particularly NFPA 99 and chapter 7, NFPA 70, Life Safety Code 101, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 21, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), The...
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    The Act can be found in the United States Code at title 29, chapter 15. Few workplace health and safety protections were available through the federal...
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