Fire protection system standards

1. Fire Protection
System Standards
&Approvals

2. What is standard?
▪ A technical standard is an established norm or requirement for a repeatable technical
task.
▪ It is usually a formal document that establishes uniform engineering or technical
criteria, methods, processes, and practices.
▪ A fire protection standard is a document with mandatory provisions to indicate
requirements for planning, installation and maintenance of fire extinguishing systems.
▪ Overall requirements demanded from the components, such as performance,
specifications and listings, is to some degree included.

3. List of Fire Protection System Standards &Approvals
List of Fire Protection Standards
▪ India Standard (IS)
▪ National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
▪ Factory Mutual (FM)
▪ National Building Code (NBC)
List of Approvals
▪ FM Approval
▪ Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
▪ Loss Prevention Control Board (LPCB)

4. Indian Standard (IS)
▪ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the national Standards Body of India working
under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public
Distribution, Government of India.
▪ A series of Indian Standards covering fire safety of buildings in general principles of fire
grading details of construction, exit requirements and exposure hazards have been
formulated.

5. NFPA (NationalFireProtectionAssociation)
▪ The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is an international nonprofit
organization devoted to eliminating death, injury, property and economic loss due to
fire, electrical and related hazards.
▪ NFPA delivers information & knowledge through more than 300 consensus codes &
standards, research, training, education.
▪ NFPA widely known as codes & standards organization. There 300 code & standards are
designed to minimize the risk & effect of fire by establishing criteria for building,
processing, design, service & installation around the world.
NFPA Standards- nfpa.org

6. FM Global (FactoryMutual)
▪ FM Global is an American mutual insurance company, that specializes in loss prevention
services primarily to large corporations throughout the world in the Highly Protected
Risk (HPR) property insurance market sector.
▪ The company employs a non-traditional business model whereby risk and premiums are
determined by engineering analysis as opposed to historically based actuarial calculations.
▪ This business approach is centered on the belief that property losses can be prevented or
mitigated.
▪ FM Global engineering personnel regularly visit insured locations to evaluate hazards and
recommend improvements to their property or work practices to reduce physical and financial
risks if a loss occurs.
FM Standards- www.fmglobal.com/research-and-resources/fm-global-data-sheets
FM Approval Guide- www.approvalguide.com/CC_host/pages/public/custom/FM/login.cfm

7. NBC (NationalBuildingCode)
▪ National Building Code of India covers the detailed guidelines for construction, maintenance
and fire safety of the structures.
▪ National Building Code of India is published by Bureau of Indian Standards and it is
recommendatory document.
▪ Guidelines were issued to the States to incorporate the recommendations of National
Building Code into their local building bylaws making the recommendations of National
Building Code of India as mandatory requirement.
Volume -1
Part IV- Fire and Life Safety

8. Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
▪ Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is the largest and best known independent, not-for-
profit testing laboratory in the world. .
▪ UL conducts safety and quality tests on a broad range of products.
▪ The laboratory provides a full spectrum of conformity and quality assessment services to
manufacturers and other organizations.
▪ It also assists jurisdictional and provincial authorities, offers educational materials to
consumers, and works to strengthen safety systems around the world.
▪ It conducts tests on products in these areas to see whether they meet standards set by UL
engineers in conjunction with input from manufacturers and product users, but it will
also test products to see whether they meet standards set by outside entities.
▪ UL hands out one of three different designations to products that pass its tests: UL listed,
UL recognized, or UL certified.

9. Loss Prevention Control Board (LPCB)
▪ The Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) is the leading international
Certification Body in the fields of security and fire protection.
▪ The LPCB approval process involves assessment and testing of products to ensure that
they meet quality standards set by a team of experts who may be regulators, insurers,
designers, manufacturers, installers, engineers and scientists.
▪ Approval of products is usually based on testing undertaken by the LPCB’s world-
renowned testing laboratories.
▪ This approval is maintained by regular audits to ensure that the product continues to
meet the approval criteria.

10. Codes For Standards
No. Description IS NFPA FM NBC
1 External Hydrant System IS 13039
NFPA 14 FM 4-4N
NBC Part 4
2 Internal Hydrant System IS 3844
3 Automatic Sprinkler System IS 15105 NFPA 13 FM 2-0
4 Fire Alarm & Detection System IS 2189 NFPA 72
FM 5-40
FM 5-48
5 Fire Extinguisher IS 2190 NFPA 10 FM 4-5
6 Fire Pump House IS 12469 NFPA 20 FM 3-7

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