FPPA General
In the event of a conflict between a provision of the Fire Code or a Municipal By-law with respect to the keeping and manufacturing of explosives, which prevails?
The most restrictive
This is the penalty amount for failing to comply with an inspection order.
$20,000 a day for each day the default continues.
This means a device or assembly for closing an opening through a fire separation such as a door, a shutter, a damper, wired glass or glass block and includes all components, such as hardware, closing devices, frames and anchors.
Closure
This is the Act that governs the Building Code
Building Code Act, 1992
In accordance with Articles 3.2.2.4, 3.2.2.5. and 3.2.2.8., if a building contains more than one Group or Division the requirements of this Subsection concerning building size and construction relative to what shall apply?
Major occupancy
At minimum every Municipality is responsible to provide these two things:
(a) establish a program in the municipality which must include public education with respect to fire safety and certain components of fire prevention; and
(b) provide such other fire protection services as it determines may be necessary in accordance with its needs and circumstances.
An order that is served upon an owner and any occupant of the land and premises shall also be posted in this location within a multi-unit building
In a conspicuous place in or outside the building.
This means the space on any storey of a building between exterior walls and required firewalls, including the space occupied by interior walls and partitions, but not including exits, vertical service spaces and their enclosing assemblies.
Floor area
This type of permit is required to change or alter a building from its current use or occupancy type.
Change of Use
Except as required by Sentence 3.3.4.4.(8) and permitted by Sentences 3.3.4.4.(5) and (6), each suite in a floor area that contains more than one suite shall have
(a) an exterior exit doorway, or
(b) a doorway,
(i) into a public corridor, or
(ii) to an exterior passageway.
The FPPA defines fire safety as the following:
1. Safety from the risk that a fire, if started, would seriously endanger the health and safety of any person or the quality of the natural environment for any use that can be made of it.
2. Safety from the risk that the presence of unsafe levels of carbon monoxide on premises would seriously endanger the health and safety of any person. 2013, c. 14, s. 4.
These two things must be present in order to issue an ITL
2) Immediate threat to life
This means an enclosed space in a building,
(a) that is separated from all other parts of the building by enclosing construction that provides a fire separation, and
(b) that may be required to have a fire-resistance rating.
Fire compartment
These types of permits are required in order to construct or take down a building (2)
Construction and Demolition
Article 3.2.2.23. Group A Division 2, Any Height, Any Area, Sprinklered requires Loadbearing walls, columns & arches to have this fire resistance rating
2 hours
These are three by-laws a council of a municipality may pass
(a) regulating fire prevention, including the prevention of the spreading of fires;
(b) regulating the setting of open air fires, including establishing the times during which open air fires may be set;
(c) designating private roads as fire routes along which no parking of vehicles shall be permitted and providing for the removal and impounding of any vehicle parked or left along any of the fire routes at the expense of the owner of the vehicle. 2001, c. 25, s. 475 (3).
An inspector who has carried out an inspection of land or premises under section 19 or 20 may order the owner or occupant of the land or premises to any of these 7 things:
(a) to remove buildings or structures from the land or premises;
(b) to make structural and other repairs or alterations, including material alterations, to the buildings or structures;
(c) to remove combustible or explosive material or any thing that may constitute a fire hazard;
(d) to install and use specified equipment or devices as may be necessary to contain hazardous material on the land or premises and, in the event of a fire, to remove or transport the material;
(e) to discontinue the manufacturing, production or fabrication of any material, device or other thing that creates or poses an undue risk of fire or explosion;
(f) to do anything respecting fire safety including anything relating to the containment of a possible fire, means of egress, fire alarms and detection, fire suppression and the preparation of a fire safety plan;
(g) to remedy any contravention of the fire code.
This means part of a means of egress, including doorways, that leads from the floor area it serves to a separate building, an open public thoroughfare or an exterior open space protected from fire exposure from the building and having access to an open public thoroughfare.
Exit
These 5 items are governed by the Building Code
•Construction of a building or part thereof
•Demolition of a building or part thereof
•Change of use of a building or part thereof,
•The authority to remedy unsafe buildings
•Legal framework for enactment and administration of standards for maintenance and occupancy of property
The following 4 occupancy combinations are prohibited
(1) No major occupancy of Group F, Division 1 shall be contained within a building with any occupancy classified as Group A, B or C.
(2) Except as provided in Sentence (4) and Sentence 3.10.2.4.(9), not more than one suite of residential occupancy shall be contained within a building classified as a Group F, Division 2 major occupancy.
(3) A sleeping room or sleeping area shall not open directly into a room or area where food is intended to be stored, prepared, processed, distributed, served, sold or offered for sale.
(4) A Group F, Division 2 major occupancy is permitted in a building containing only live/work units if the occupancy is for the exclusive use of the occupants of the live/work units.
The FPPA states that the Fire Code does not apply to unoccupied parts of a building that is under construction except:
(a) there has been no substantial work related to the construction of the building for at least six months; or
(b) the conditions in the unoccupied portions threaten the safety of the occupied portions. 1997, c. 4, s. 12 (4).
These are the six powers during inspection that an inspector may exercise:
(a) examine a document or other thing that is relevant to the inspection;
(b) demand the production for inspection of a document or other thing that is relevant to the inspection;
(c) remove any thing that is relevant to the inspection for review and examination and remove any document that is relevant to the inspection for review and copying;
(d) conduct tests, take and remove samples, take photographs and make videotapes and other images, electronic or otherwise, that are relevant to the inspection;
(e) in order to produce a document in readable form, use data storage, information processing or retrieval devices or systems that are normally used in the premises being inspected; and
(f) question a person on matters relevant to the inspection.
This includes exits and access to exits and means a continuous path of travel provided for the escape of persons from any point in a building or in a contained open space to,
(a) a separate building,
(b) an open public thoroughfare, or
(c) an exterior open space that is protected from fire exposure from the building and that has access to an open public thoroughfare.
Means of egress
This is the definition of a building in accordance with the Building Code
(a) a structure occupying an area greater than ten square metres consisting of a wall, roof and floor or any of them or a structural system serving the function thereof including all plumbing, works, fixtures and service systems appurtenant thereto,
(b) a structure occupying an area of ten square metres or less that contains plumbing, including the plumbing appurtenant thereto,
(c) plumbing not located in a structure,
(c.1) a sewage system, or
(d) structures designated in the building code;
These are identified in OBC Part 3 as types of exits:
Article 3.4.1.4. Types of Exit
(a) an exterior doorway,
(b) an exterior passageway,
(c) an exterior ramp,
(d) an exterior stairway,
(e) a fire escape (conforming to Subsection 3.4.7.),
(f) a horizontal exit,
(g) an interior passageway,
(h) an interior ramp, or
(i) an interior stairway.