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Community Risk Assessment
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We have advocated education community risk management concepts since 2007; primarily in NFPA Standard 1300 — Standard on Community Risk Assessment and Community Risk Reduction Plan Development (formerly NFPA 1600). The content of this title is close-coupled with FEMA’s National Incident Management System.
Recently the National Fire Protection Association Standards Council moved to consolidate its community risk management titles as described below.
“NFPA 1660 is in a custom cycle due to the Emergency Response and Responder Safety Document Consolidation Plan (consolidation plan) as approved by the NFPA Standards Council. As part of the consolidation plan, NFPA 1660 (combining Standards NFPA 1600, NFPA 1616, and NFPA 1620) is open for public input with a closing date of November 13, 2020.”
Thus, NFPA 1600 is being sunsetted as a separate consensus product, its substance rolled into the new NFPA 1660. CLICK HERE for the new landing page for NFPA 1660.
Two links below provide a sense of the back-and-forth in the technical committee meetings:
1600_F2018_EMB_AAA_FD_PIResponses
Discussion about school and university security are noteworthy.
As described on its title page, this product will be reconfigured as NFPA 1660 Standard on Community Risk Assessment, Pre-Incident Planning, Mass Evacuation, Sheltering, and Re-entry Programs. The title suggests that NFPA 1660 is being developed to meet market need for conformance and teaching tools. You may track movement in the concepts in the links below; many of them administrative:
Emergency Management and Business Continuity
Mass Evacuation and Sheltering
NFPA 1660 will likely require one or two more revision cycles to stabilize
Public consultation on the Second Draft (NITMAM) closes September 9th. You may submit public input directly to NFPA by CLICKING HERE. We will have hosted several Security colloquia ahead of this deadline during which we will drill into technical and policy specifics.
University of Tennessee
We maintain this title on our periodic Security, Disaster and Risk colloquia during which time our thoughts on the economic burden of the expanding constellation of risk management standards will be known. Thoughts that we are reluctant to write. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [13-58] and [18-151]
Category: Security, Risk
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Robert G. Arno, Jim Harvey, Richard Robben
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Drone Safety
“Icarus” | Joos de Momper
“All limits are self imposed.”
― Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, Ovid)
The National Fire Protection Association has added another standard to its suite of public safety documents: NFPA 2400 Standard for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) used for Public Safety Operations. This standard covers the minimum requirements relating to the operation, deployment, and implementation of small unmanned aircraft systems for public safety operations. The standard is developed by two main committees — one committee for drone systems (UAS-AAA) and another committee for the professional qualifications to operate and maintain drone systems (PQU-AAC)
From the project prospectus:
This standard shall cover the minimum requirements relating to the operation, deployment, and implementation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) for public safety operations. This standard shall establish operational protocols for public safety entities who use and support sUAS. This standard shall include minimum job performance requirements (JPRs) for public safety personnel who operate and support sUAS. This standard shall include minimum requirements for the maintenance of sUAS when used by public safety entities. This standard shall provide additional minimum requirements specific to public safety entities.
The 2019 Edition of NFPA 2400 has already been released for public use. Because this is a relatively new addition to the NFPA suite we provide two links that offer insight into the ideas running through it: The First Draft Report for the AAA committee is linked below:
2400_Cust2020_UAS_AAA_FRReport
The First Draft Report for the AAC committee is linked below:
2400_Cust2020_PQU_AAC_FDagenda_04_18
We choose these reports to provide an overview of the technical and management concepts in play in the first draft. It is not uncommon, in the developmental trajectory of any accredited standard, that the bulk of it is largely administrative. You may view it with a (free) NFPA public review account. Get one by CLICKING HERE
Application of this technology for public safety on college and university campuses will likely accelerate and, hopefully, a catalog of case studies that will be shared. We find that several educational organizations are supporting faculty and staff involvement: University of Illinois Fire Service Institute, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Oklahoma State University and the University Of Cincinnati are supporting the participation of Special Experts. The Los Angeles Unified School District is supporting a User Interest.
We expect that agricultural colleges and universities will begin developing curricula around the use of drones for crop inspection.
We encourage operations and maintenance staff — the various roofing and landscaping and grounds shops; for example — to participate in the development of the next revision. You may do so here: NFPA PUBLIC INPUT PAGE. We recommend you communicate directly with NFPA staff — either Michael Wixler or Elena Carroll. CLICK HERE for contact help.
We maintain this title on the standing agenda of periodic Mobility, Risk and Aerospace colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Schriever School Age Care | Schriever Air Force Base Indoor Running Track
Issue: [18-269], [16-199]
Category: Public Safety, Risk Management, #SmartCampus
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben
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ISO/TC 20/SC 16 Unmanned aircraft systems
Drones are also being used for rooftop cooling tower inspection: ASTM Committee F38 on Unmanned Aircraft Systems
A jellyfish made of 1,000 drones
[📹 FireFly Drone Show]pic.twitter.com/A4peXTWFn1
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 28, 2025
Wiring for Luminaires in High Ceiling Occupancies
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Fire Pump Electric Power
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Building Construction & Safety Code
“Architect’s Dream” / Thomas Code
The scope of NFPA 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code — a consensus title of ‘similar’ scope developed by the International Code Council* — is paraphrased below:
“…The Code addresses those construction, protection, and occupancy features necessary to minimize danger to life and property. The Code does not address features that solely affect economic loss to private property…”
Our interest in this title contributes to our goal of understanding a fully dimensioned best practice bibliography for the built environment in education communities. CLICK HERE for Free Access
The original University of Michigan standards advocacy enterprise began its engagement with this code with the inaugural edition in 2009, with special attention to the chapters listed below:
Chapter 17: Educational Occupancies
Chapter 18: Daycare Occupancies
Chapter 19: Health Care Occupancies
Chapter 51: Energy Systems
Chapter 52: Electrical Systems
A few Standards Michigan proposals track in the transcripts:
Educational and Day-Care Occupancies
Public consultation on the Second Draft closes March 28, 2023.
We maintain NFPA 5000 on the standing agenda of our Model Building Code colloquia when we examine it along with competitor titles; notably International Code Council titles (I-Codes). See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [8-100]
Category: Architectural, Structural, Accessibility
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Joe DeRosier, Jack Janveja
*By comparison the scope statement in the International Building Code — Section 101 General — is paraphrased below:
“…The provisions of this code shall apply to the construction, alteration, relocation, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, removal and demolition of every building or structure or appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures…”
Electrical Rooms
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Branch and Feeder Circuit Design
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Building Energy Code
“The Conquest of Energy” / José Chávez Morado / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Since about 2003 the National Fire Protection Association has invested in a consensus product that competes with other ANSI accredited standards developing organizations to secure a footprint in the energy conservation space: NFPA 900 Building Energy Code. Use of the word “code” in its title is significant. It means that NFPA 900 has been written to be incorporated by reference into federal, state and local energy conservation legislation.
From the NFPA 900 prospectus:
These regulations shall control the minimum energy-efficient requirements for the following:
(1) The design, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, demolition, removal, inspection, issuance, and revocation of permits or licenses, installation of equipment related to energy conservation in all buildings and structures and parts thereof
(2) The rehabilitation and maintenance of construction related to energy efficiency in existing buildings
(3) The standards or requirements for materials to be used in connection therewith.
Sound familiar? At the very least, NFPA 900 fills out the 300+ consensus product offerings of the NFPA. A brief reading of NFPA 900 reveals that it references consensus products by the ICC, ASHRAE and other ANSI-accredited standards developers. The public input deadline passed in January 2020. The public input report will be posted no later than September 10th. A first reading, available to registered NFPA-access members, reveals little new content.
Public input on the 2025 revision is receivable until January 5, 2023.
We host a monthly teleconference that covers Energy-related consensus products. See our CALENDAR for the next online teleconference
University of California Merced Power Plant
Issue: [6-5] [12-79]
Category: Public Safety, Risk Management, #SmartCampus
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben
LINK TO LEGACY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NFPA WORKSPACE
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