1. Test Your Standards IQ.
Portable space heaters are permitted in which of the following areas?
a. Smoke compartments containing staff sleeping areas
b. Smoke compartments containing patient treatment areas
c. Non-sleeping rooms occupied by staff
What is C. Non-sleeping rooms occupied by staff?
Life Safety (LS) Standard LS.03.01.70 requires
health care organizations to provide and maintain operating features that conform to fire and smoke. This standard applies to ambulatory health care occupancy (AHCO) classification requirements for hospitals. According to element of performance (EP) 8 of that standard, portable space heaters are prohibited in smoke compartments containing staff sleeping rooms and patient treatment areas. Non-sleeping rooms occupied by staff and employee areas separated from the corridor are permitted to have portable space heaters that contain heating elements not exceeding 212°F.
True or False.
Fire extinguishers that weigh more than 40 pounds should not be installed more than 3.5 feet above the floor.
What is true?
Which months have 28 days?
What is they all do?
LS.02.01.30 EP19 (sealing of fire/smoke barriers) has an added note.
Note: Polyurethane expanding foam is not an accepted ____-_____ material for this purpose.
What is fire-rated ?
Name of the CO previous to Bitterman.
Who is Weiss?
In new construction, vertical openings must be enclosed by which type of fire-rated walls when connecting three or fewer floors?
a. 1-hour fire-rated walls
b. 1 ½-hour fire-rated walls
c. 2-hour fire-rated walls
What is A. 1-hour fire-rated walls?
In new construction, vertical openings, including exit stairs, must be enclosed by 1-hour fire-rated walls when connecting three or fewer floors and 2-hour fire-rated walls when connecting four or more floors. These vertical openings include, but are not limited to, shafts (including elevator, light, and ventilation shafts), communicating stairs, ramps, trash chutes, linen chutes, and utility chases. (See StandardLS.02.01.30.)
Where quick-response sprinklers are installed, ___ sprinklers within the compartment must be quick response. An organization may not place different types of sprinklers in the same compartment.
What is all?
This invention allows you to see through walls.
What is a window?
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2012 Edition.
18/19.3.7.3 (2) says: Smoke dampers shall not be required in duct penetrations of _____ barriers in fully ducted heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems.
What is smoke?
DFA Before Grande.
Who is McMahon?
Which of the following must be denoted in an organization’s life safety drawings?
a. Locations of nurses’ stations
b. Locations of hazardous areas
c. Locations of shipping and receiving areas
What is B. Locations of hazardous areas.
The hospital maintains current and accurate drawings denoting features of fire safety and related square footage. Fire safety features include the following:
• Areas of the building that are fully sprinklered (if the building is partially sprinklered)
• Locations of all hazardous storage areas
• Locations of all fire-rated barriers
• Locations of all smoke-rated barriers
• Sleeping and non-sleeping suite boundaries, including the size of the identified suites.
• Locations of designated smoke compartments
• Locations of chutes and shafts
• Any approved equivalencies or waivers.
Sprinklers must be replaced if they are corroded or if they have been painted (by someone other than the ____________).
What is manufacturer?
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
What is Mt. Everest? It just wasn’t discovered yet.
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2012 Edition.
A.8.5.2 says: To ensure that a smoke barrier is continuous, it is necessary to seal completely all openings where the smoke barrier abuts other smoke barriers, fire barriers, exterior walls, the floor below, and the floor or ceiling above. It is not the intent to prohibit a smoke barrier from stopping at a fire barrier if the fire barrier meets the requirements of a smoke barrier (i.e., the fire barrier is a ___________ smoke barrier/fire barrier).
What is combination?
DFA before McMahon?
Who is Klinger?
Fire sprinkler heads have to be clear of obstructions for __" underneath them.
What is 18?
True or False?
Fire door hardware labels may not be covered by a continuous hinge. They must be readily visible and convenient for identification.
What is true?
If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
You would be in 2nd place. You passed the person in second place, not first.
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2012 Edition.
8.5.2.2 says: Smoke barriers shall be continuous through all c________ spaces, such as those found above a ceiling, including interstitial spaces.
What is concealed?
CO with the flat top hair cut.
Who is Brouker?
Emergency power generators must be tested monthly at a minimum __% load.
What is 30?
Smoke doors must self-close and _____ automatically.
What is latch?
In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera (or iPad or cell phone) to take a picture.
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2012 Edition.
A.8.5.3.4 - Where, because of operational necessity, it is desired to have smoke barrier doors that are usually open, such doors should be provided with hold-open devices that are _________ to close the doors by means of the operation of smoke detectors and other alarm functions.
What is activated ?
Your favorite thing about working at NHB?
No wrong answer.