A Top Guide for Fire and Life Safety Directors

By Reynaurd Robert

Essentially the book is written to improve competency of fire and life safety directors, to fully understand the fire alarm systems and to prepare employers and employees to function as a unit. In hopes of, reduce the consequences of fire and deaths from active shooter incidents in high rise buildings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543936476

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© Reynaurd Robert 2018

Print ISBN: 978-1-54393-646-9

eBook ISBN: 978-1-54393-647-6

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Table of Contents

Preface

SECTION A

High Rise Buildings

Top Tip #1- History of the Fire Code. The Definitions of High Rise Buildings and the main causes of Fire in them.

Top Tip #2 – The new qualification criteria.

Top Tip #3 - Role of the Fire and Life Safety Director.

Top Tip #4 - The Emergency Action Plan

Top Tip #5 -The Duties and Responsibilities of the

Fire and Life Safety Director.

Top Tip #6 - Liaising with Fire Department Officials.

Top Tip #7 - The Maintenance Schedule of all Fire Alarm Equipment

Top Tip #8 - The Handing and Taking over Tour Procedures.

Top Tip #9 -Impairment procedure at the Facility

Top Tip #10 - The Evacuation Process of High Rise Buildings

Top Tip #11 – The Training Guidelines in the Emergency Action Plan

Top Tip #12 - The Features that should be emphasized

in Fire Drill Training.

SECTION B

The Fire Alarm System

Top Tip #13 – The Fire Alarm Control Panel

Top Tip #14 – How do the Main Buttons on the FACP Function?

Top Tip #15 - The types of manual fire alarm activations.

Top Tip #16 - Automatic Components on the Fire Alarm System

Top Tip #17 - The Units on the Sprinkler System and their Usefulness

Top Tip #18 – The Suppression System

Top Tip #19 - Switches and Valves on the Sprinkler System

SECTION C

THE ACTIVE SHOOTER

Who is an active shooter?

The Active Shooter Training Guidelines

How does Active Shooter Training Help the Employees?

FDNY Recommendations.

An ideal evacuation plan recommended by the Department of Homeland Security (DOH)

Conclusion

References

Preface

With the flick of a match, friction occurs and a spark leaps from a match to combustibles. A small flame burns and grows, fueled by combustibles and air. Higher and wider it spreads. This flame has now become a fire, ready to serve or destroy. Which is it to be? When it is allowed to serve, fire is a wonderful servant. When it is left to go out of control, however, fire is dangerous as it can be, engulfing, consuming all in its path, leaving everything black, silent, lifeless and dead.

In New York State, fire seems to be a daily occurrence putting an end to lives, causing destruction to property and deep sadness to those, who have lost all and have been affected by permanent scars and lifelong injuries.

In 2009-2013, U. S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 14,500 fires in high rise buildings per year. These fires caused an average of 40 civilian deaths, 520 civilian injuries and $154 million in direct property damage per year.

This book, A TOP GUIDE for FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY DIRECTORS is written with three main objectives in mind. First, it is to provide aspiring and practicing Fire and Life Safety Directors (FLSD) with the relevant knowledge and skills to easily identify risks at their work places, save lives and reduce the sad consequential loss of property from fire, medical emergencies and non-fire incidents. The second objective is to help them to better understand the fire alarm system and function at a