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Facilities Life Safety Director Professional Qualifications
“Incendie à Rome 18 July 64 AD” 1785 Hubert Robert
NFPA 1082 Standard for Facilities Fire and Life Safety Director Professional Qualifications identifies the minimum job performance requirements for Building Fire and Life Safety Directors. It is a relatively new title (first edition 2019) that sets minimum standards for hiring criteria and job performance.
This title adds dimension and technical specifics that should be known to hiring committees in all education communities as the list of sample job descriptions indicate:
Director of Campus Safety Gustavus University
Executive Director for Campus and Public Safety Boise State University
Assistant Director Campus Safety College of the Canyons
NFPA 1082 job requirements, and the requirements of all NFPA titles, may be implied in the “familiar with all applicable codes and standards” general-purpose language. The two main First Draft committees met online in July and November produced provisional revisions in the link below:
Building Fire and Life Safety Directors
Public input on the 2026 Revision will be received until January 4, 2024.
You may submit comments on the proposed changes directly to the NFPA 1082 committee (CLICK HERE). You may also click in to our daily colloquia when we can walk you through the NFPA public outreach on all of its titles generally. This title in a standing item on our periodic Human Resource colloquium; open to everyone. See our CALENDAR.
Public Safety & National Public Radio Studios | Sacred Heart University
Issue: [16-142]
Category: Public Safety, Human Resources
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Joe DeRosier, Josh Evolve, Marcelo Hirschler
Guide for Safe Confined Space Entry and Work
Plymouth State University | Grafton County New Hampshire
Guide for Safe Confined Space Entry and Work
This guide supplements existing confined space regulations, standards, and work practices by providing additional guidance for safe confined space entry and work. References are provided throughout the guide and annexes to direct the reader to other regulations and standards or other content that might be applicable.
This guide provides the following:
Information to identify, evaluate, assess, and then eliminate, mitigate, or control hazards that are present or that may occur during entry into or work in and around confined spaces.
Information on how to understand confined space safety and safeguard personnel from fire, explosion, and other health hazards that are uniquely associated with confined spaces.
Information regarding training, qualifications, and competencies required for personnel responsible for confined space hazard identification, hazard evaluation, and hazard control for personnel who work in and around confined spaces.
Information on confined space rescue best practices.
Information concerning confined space hazards and safety practices that are applicable to all types of confined spaces.
Information regarding hazards adjacent to confined spaces that might affect the safe conditions necessary for entry and work in a confined space.
This guide provides criteria for eliminating, mitigating, or controlling hazards in the confined space design phase.
Agricultural Building Power
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Community Risk Assessment
Château de Meudon
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
MORE >> Disaster Resiliency and NFPA Codes and Standards
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
LEARN MORE:
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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