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National Fire Safety Code 1st Edition 2013

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  • PART I - PURPOSE, SCOPE AND APPLICATION: Outlines the purpose, scope, and applicability of the national fire safety code, detailing minimum standards and preventive measures.
  • PART II - ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT: Describes the roles of authorities in administration and enforcement of the fire safety code, including issuance of permits and certificates.
  • PART III - OFFENCES AND PENALTIES: Enumerates various offences within the fire code and corresponding penalties, highlighting responsibilities and legal liabilities.
  • PART IV - CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS: Classifies different building types under the code, providing guidelines for categorization based on usage and occupancy.
  • PART V - TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION: Defines construction types and their respective fire-resistance requirements, focusing on materials and structural designs.
  • PART VI - ACCESS, MEANS OF ESCAPE AND EXIT WAYS: Details access requirements and means of escape, including the design of exit routes to ensure safe evacuation.
  • PART VII - FIRE WALLS AND FIRE RESISTANCE CONSTRUCTIONS: Covers the specifications for fire walls and constructions to resist fire spreading, ensuring protection within buildings.
  • PART VIII - FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS: Explains fire suppression system requirements, emphasizing installation standards for various types of buildings.
  • PART IX - ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION IN BUILDING AND ATTENDANT FIRE HAZARDS: Describes electrical installation standards and associated fire hazards, providing guidelines to mitigate risks.
  • PART X - MISCELLANEOUS: Addresses miscellaneous topics such as smoke extraction and amendments to the code, balancing fire prevention and regulation compliance.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA NATIONAL CRFETY NATIONAL, FIRE SAFETY CODE! 2013 FIRST EDITION (2013) Fire Headquarter Area 10, Mohammed Buhari Way, PM.B. 43, Garki Abuja Tel: 0603 200 3557 PREFACE Disasters have become part of human existerce partly because ofthe level of our technological development, Fire outbreakis one emergency with very high Potential for threat to human lives, Property and the environment. Incidentally, most fire outbreaks are caused by human errors of omission or commission. therefore the levelof these errors are reduced to the barest minimum, {destruction of lives and property arising from fire outbreaks and related emergencies will be under control. ‘The National Fire Code is therefore to address conditions hazardous (olife and property arising from fire outbreak, unsafe building construciion and Occupancy of buildings, hazardous materials storage, transportation and other emergencies. The code will be subject to review every three years or as the emerging emergencies may \dentcation tags and shal be observed for leakage an obstruction ow and identification tags ‘ndinsructions onthe devices shal bechecked. |) Afiertesting, al piping and nozzles are tobe blown clean, using compressed air or nitrogen and the system property ‘charged and placed in the ‘normal ‘set condition and all tests shall conform with Standards Organisation of Nigeria's standards. Rising mains (dry or wet) 44) AllBuigings and Structures shllbe equipped with ising mains in accordance with Table X. “)__Risingmains shllbeinstaledin bulking of altypes of assembly use groups with an occupancy Joad of more than 300 regardless of he height ©) _Risingmains shallbe installedin building of four floors when such buildings are for (@) Business, Factory and Industry, Mercantile or Moderate Hazard storage more than 280 square meters in area per floor;or (b) Assembly, Inettuional, Residential Hotels orofany use group more than 930 square meters in area per floor 4) Rising mains shall be installed in buiding of more than four floors regardless ofthe area per Toor. <5) Rising mais sal exten rom the lowest pation ofthe bulking to 2 helah of 1.5 mabove tne Teisned oo of thet mest oor andoher atomic fre extncon system shall be islaled subject tothe approval of the Fire Service. 6) The umber of ising mains shal be such that al pars of every for area can Pe reached by «00mm hose siream from @ nozzle attached to 46m by 65mm clameter hose connectod 102 riseroutlet 7) The fisng mains may ls serve asthe water sprinkler system ise(s in bulings required to rave sytem or in buldings having boh systems and @ conto ave shall be instal in each sprinkler system orrising mains to allow the system toremain operational. (8) _ Ateach oorlevel, and notmorethan 1.5mete above he foot, here shale connected toeach fing main a 66mm hose connection and «20mm hose connection wth valves and counings ‘entering othe Fre Service requirement such hase connection sal be envied wih 2 No.30meter length hose with an approvednozzle and couplings to be hung in an approved rack orcabinet. 45 421. 128. (@)__Allrising mains shall be consiructed of approved materials. Ali pipes fitings and extra heavy gauge or schedule 40 galvanised steel pipes when the working pressure’ 4200x10° Nim* or twelve bars and all rising mains shall be constructed within specified by the approved authority, the reference to approved authority in this within the meaning contained in the Schedule tothis Code. (10) Rising main of 100mm size or 150mm size shall be capable of discharging a mini lies per second or 48litres 2er second respectively where more than one rising main with a residual pressure ofl least 448.2 Nim’ at the highest outlet of each rising main. (11) Rising mains shall be maintained in full operating conditions atl times Fire hydrants Fire hydrants installed on private properties shallbe located andinstalledas required for safety Fireexitdrils (1) Fire exit drils conforming with the provisions of this code shall be regularly cond coocupancies where specified by the provisions therein or by appropriate action of Service but with any necessary modifications in detail of procedures to make the drits effective fr theirintended purpose in any individual building. (2) Fire exit drills, where required by the Fire Service, shall be held with sufficient frequ least twice a year to familiarise all occupants with the dril procedure and to have the ofthe dill mater ofestablished routine. (3) Responsibility for planning and conduct of drills shall be assigned only to competent qualified to exercise leadership. (4) Inthe conduct of drills, emphasis shall be placed upon orderly evacuation under discipline rather than upon speed and no turning or horseplay shall be permitted. (5) __Diills shall include suitable procedures to make sure that all persons in the building or persons subjectto the drils actualy participated. (6) _Diilsshall be held at unexpected times and under varying conditions to stimulate the unu conditions obtained in case offre, (7) Allthe occupants of ulcings shall be schooled and drilled inthe duties they are to perform: case offre, panic, orother emergency in order tobe of greatest service in effecting orderly e fromthe buildings. (8) Onevacuation, all the occupants shall assemble at predetermined locations where roll calls shall be taken, 46 130, 0} PART IX ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION IN BUILDING AND ATTENDANT FIRE HAZARDS, Power Supply ‘The power supply toa fre protection instalation shall be from a maintained power supply such son Uninterupted Power Supply System which shall have an alternative power supply that can be started within a meximum of 60seconds after public power supply may have been removed since fie detection systems provide signals that may trigger of alarms for quick intervention offre fighters, quick evacuation and automatic actuation of automatic fre fighting mechanism. (2) The power back up system shall be monitored to be ready at all times for recharging the battery sources that take ove from public power supply inthe UPS system, (3) Where a direct batery source is the supply power ofthe fire system, an alternative power generation shall be used to charge the battery before itis allowed to go flat in the event of unusually long delay of pubic power supply returning tothe system andin the alternative, the {otal battery power requirerients ofthe fe protection shal be the product in Ampere Hour of, ‘current consumption (Amps) multiplied by the expected period Hours) of waiting for the main public powersupply,-forexamplo, 72 hoursor3 days, (4) Public power supply to all fre protection systems shall be maintainable, and shall have redundancy built into the design to ensure availablity of power for monitoring and sensing for every 24 hours, Automaticfire alarm systems 430. Automatic fire alarm systems (1) Where required by this Code, the plans and specifications for the automatic fire alarm system. shall show location and number ofthe sensing ations and signals with specications ofthe type, constaiction and aparatian af tha systam including ail automatic datacton devicas and installation ofall he equipment shallbe in accordance withthe provisions therein. (2) Aulomaticfire detection system shall be provided as follows - (@) Smoke sensitive detectors (ionized smoke detectors) for rooms where there is danger of explosion (bd) Rate of temperature rise detectors, where rapid temperature is to be expected or ‘where more sensitve detectors are unstable such as Kitchens, Restaurants or oven rooms where danger of explosion could be expected; (©) __Infta-ted detectors for indoor applications where operating conditions are severe, such as where carbonaceous materials such as wood, plastic, alcohol, petroleum products may cause fre; (4) Optical smoke detectors which reactto the visible mainly ight coloured smoke which ‘occurs usually at iitial stages of slow smouldering fires, in rooms encompassing electrical equipment and materials; 47 131. (©) Explosion proof or fame proof detectors in explosion and or fre hazard area such 25 ‘chemical plant; ( Air duct detector unit for monitoring ventilation and air conditioning system for smoke: andre aerosols; (@) Dual rate of rise or maximum temperature detectors for monitoring of road tunnels and rooms where normal heat detectors cannot be used due to aggressive chemical ‘atmospheres, dust accumulation or high humidity (>) Gas detector for monitoring dancerous level of fammables, such asin Kitchens using gas or cooking and gaseous molecules laden n an enclosed space; and (Molecule detector for sensing visible and invisible products uf vombustion in each dwelling unit of residential or mutifamily buildings. (3) Eachdetector shall provide an alarm suitable to wamn the occupants within the individual dweling ‘units and the ight application of automatic detectors shall be related tothe feload. Manual fire alarm systems and pull stations () 2) @ (4) 6) 48 ‘Where required by this Code, the plans and specifications for the manual fire alarm systems: shail show the location and number of all sensing stations and signal with specifications of the type, construction and operation of the system and installation of all equipment shall be in accordance with the provisions therein. ‘The manual fire alarm system shall be approved for the particular application and shall be Used for the fire protection signaling purposes only and alarm boxes shall be painted a distinctive red colour. ‘Amanual fre atarm system shal Ue insalle an meintained in full operating conition inthe locations described nthe following- {2) _allbuildings required to be equisped with an automatic ie alarm systemi(Except in ‘dwelling units); (b) ail new and existing buildings of use groups, such as Assembly, Education, except sanctuary such as churches, mosques and similar religious buildings; © all buildings of business use; anc (d)._allbuildings ofresidential use Manual Call Points shall be located in each common corridor of each floor including basements or cellars, so that from each common corridor door, not more than 30 meters will be traversed in order to reach manual station and stations shall be located as near as possibile and not more than 1.5meters from each exit way. Where corridors are not provided, manual stations shall be located so that any point in the building is not more than 30 meters froma station. ® (10) () (12) () 2 (1) Q 8 Where a stage is provided, a manual pul station shall be located adjacent to the lighting control andthe height of the manual pul station box shall not exceed 1.2 meters measured vertically from te floor Level Allwitin shallbe in accordance with the provisions ofthe National Building Code. ‘Audible alarms ofthe approved ho types shall be provided and in institutional occupancies, audible and visual alarms shall be provided and the operation of any fire alarm device shall » cause all audible or visual alarmsto operate. Each floor shall be zoned seperately and Ifthe floor area exceeds 1,800 square meters, ‘additional zoning shall be providad ang the length of any zone shall not exceed 60 meters in any direction Zoning indicator control panels shall be located in accordance withthe provisions ofthis Code ‘and announciators shalllockin unt the systems eset. Upon completion of a fire alarm system, the installation shall be subjected to a performance test to demonstrate its efficiency. All connections and wiring with signal devices disconnected shall develop an insulation resistance of notiess than one mega ohm. Supervision Except where fire suppression and rising main systems, fe alarm systems in residential occupancies of four floors and below, and automatic fire alarm devices protecting individual

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