RA 9154 (FIRE CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES)

An integrated piping system connected to a source

of an extiguishing agent which suppresses fires when Automatic Fire Suppression System
actuated by its automatic detecting device
The head of the City Fire Station or the Municipal Fire Station Fire Marshalll
Fires involving ordinary combustible materials such as woods,
Class A Fires
cloth, rubber and plastics
Fire involving flammable liquids and gases Class B Fires
Fires involving energized electrical equipment Class C Fires
Fires involving incombustible materials such as sodium,
Class D Fires
magnesium, potassium and other similar materials
Fires in cooking appliances that involve combustible cooking media
Class K Fires
(vegetable or animal oils and fats)
A system of vertical pipes in a bldg to wchic fire hoses can be attached
Standpipe System
on each floor
A standpipe system in wc the pipes are normally not filled with water Dry Standpipe
A pipeline system filled with water and connected to a constant water
supply for the use of BFP and the occupants of the bldgs solely for fire Combination Standpipe
suppression purposes
Any visual or audible signal produced by a device or system to warn
the occupants of the bldg or fire fighting elements of the presence or Fire Alarm
danger of fire
A fire resistive door prescribed for openings in fire separation walls
Fire Door
or partitions
Any condition or act in which increases or may cause an increase in the
probability of the occurrence of fire, or which may obstruct, delay,
Fire Hazard
hinder or interfere with fire fighting operations and the safeguarding
of life and property
The time duration that a material or construction can withstand the
Fire resistance Rating
effect of standard fire test
A wall designed to prevent the spread of fire Firewall
Buildings 15 meters or more in height High-Rise Building
A passageway from one bldg to another, or through or around a wall in
Horizontal Exit
approximately the same floor level
A continuous and unobstructed route of exit from one point in a bldg
Means of Egress
to a public way
The purpose for which a bldg or space is used Occupancy
The maximum no. of persons that may be allowed to occupy a
Occupant Load
particular bldg or space
A mechanical device consisting of likages and horizontal bars across a
door, w/c when pushed from the inside will cause the door to open Panic Hardware
and facilitates exit from the bldg., structure or facility
A bldg. that is unsafe in case of fire because it will burn easily Fire Trap
An integrated network of hydraulically designed piping system installed
Sprinkler System
in a bldg., structure or area with outlets arranged in systematic pattern
RULE 8 (FIRE SAFETY ENFORCERS)
Inspection of bldg. to asses/ensure compliance with Fire Code
Recommendation of corrective actions for violations & defects Fire Safety Inspector
Preparation of Documents
Review Plans and Specifications including the fire protection
system to determine compliance with fire code, building code and
other life and safety standards Plan Evaluator
Inspection of bldg. during construction to determine compliance with
approved plans & specs
Review reports of Fire Safety Enforcers and recommend
approval to Fire Marshall
Assist the Fire Marshall in Fire Code Implementation
Chief of FSES
Supervise the Fire Safety Inspectors
Recommend to Fire Marshall filing of appropriate chargers against
violators
RULE 9 (EMFORCMENT & ADMINISTRATIION OF FIRE SAFETY MEASURES)
Certificate of Occupancy
Business Permit Fire Safety Inspection Requirements
Permit to Operate
Building Permit Evaluation Plan Requirement
Building Plan Review
Inspection during Construction Fire Safety Evaluation and
Inspection after Completion of Construction Inspection
Business Inspection and Routine/Annual Inspection
The bldg. plans ad specs are endorsed to the Fire Dept.
Building Plan Review
Based on findings, an FSEC or NOTICE OF DISAPPROVAL will be issued
1. A detailed design analysis of the fire safety features to be installed in the building (Design)
2. Requirement to obtain FSEC (Fire Safety Evaluation Clearance)
3. Report submitted by the Engineer-of-record or the Architect-of-record containing a detailed Fire Safety Compliance Report (FSCR)
design analysis of all fire safety features to be installed that certifies by the Fire Code.
4. Used to be called as Fire and Life Safety Assesment Report 1 (FALAR 1)
1. A certification that approved plans and specifications were duly implimented (Construction)
2. Requirement to obtain FSIC (Fire Safety Inspection Certificate) Fire Safety Compliance and Commissioning
3. Report submitted by Contractor/CM certifying prescribe by FSCR were duly implimented and Report (FSCCR)
and all protection and life safety were installed and complies Fire Code
4. Used to be called as Fire and Life Safety Assesment Report 2 (FALAR 2)
1. A report conducted annual maintenance on fire safety and protection systems (Maintenance)
2. Requirement to obtain FSIC (Fire Safety Inspection Certificate)
Fire Safety Maintenance Report (FSMR)
3. Report submitted by the Building Owner or his authorized representative
4. Used to be called as Fire and Life Safety Assesment Report 3 (FALAR 3)
1. Codes and standards used in the design
2. Project description building classification occupancy, hazzards of contents
3. Descriptions of exits, travel distances, fire supression, FDAS, evacuation system, smoke control Contents samples for FSCR
management, emergency power supply, emergency lighting, fire department access
4. Basis of design, calculations, design criteria, etc.
1. Certification that the FSCR were implimented and that the completed building compiles with
the Fire Code
2. As-built plans Contents samples for FSCCR
3. Testing and commissioning certificates
4. Descriptions of changes made in the design, if any. Standards used for these changes, if any.
1. Building classification, occupancy, hazards of contents, number of the active exits
2. Maintenance and testing records for fire pumps, sprinkler system, portable extinguishers,
sprinkler system, portable extinguishers, standpipes, FDAS, smoke management system, Contents samples for FSMR
pressurization fans, emergency power supply
3. Results of annual fire pump flow test, annual main drain testn standpipe water flow test
1. Prerequisite for the Building Permit
2. Requires review of the plans by the Plan evaluator. Issued by the Fire Marshall upon Fire Safety Evaluation Clearance (FSEC)
determination that the design and plans are in accordance with the Fire Code.
1. Prerequisite for the Certificate of Ocuupancy, Business Permit, Permits to Operate, etc.
2. Requires inspection of the building by Fire Safety Inspector, issued by the Fire Marshall Fire Safety Evaluation Clearance (FSIC)
based on the findings from the inspection
Prerequisite for constrution: Building Permit
Prerequisite for Building Permit: FSEC
Scenario 1 for Building Permit
Prerequisite for FSEC: Building plan review
Prerequisite for Building plan review: FSCR
Prerequisite for constrution: Certificate of Occupancy
Prerequisite for Certificate of Occupancy: FSIC Scenario 2 Certificate of Occupancy
Prerequisite for FSIC: Fire safety inspection + FSCCR
Prerequisite to operating a business: Business Permit
Prerequisite to Business Permit: FSIC Scenario 3 Business Permit
Prerequisite to Business Permit: Fire safety inspection + FSMR
RULE 10 (FIRE SAFETY MEASURES) Occupancy In Fire code
Buildings used for gathering 50 or more persons
Assembly
Buildings used as special amusement buildings
Buildings used for gathering of 6 or more persons for the purposes of instructions Education
Buildings in which 4 or more clients receive care, maintenance, and supervision by the people
who are not their relatives or guiardiance for less than 24 hours per day Day Care
Example: Child day care center
Building used for purposes of medical or other treatment or
care of persons, where such occupants are mostly incapable of self-preservation
because of age, physical or mental disability, or because of security measures not Health Care
under the occupants’ control.
Example: Hospitals,nursing homes and birth centers
Residential board and care buildings are those used for lodging and boarding of
four (4) or more residents, not related by blood or marriage to the owners or operators,
for the purpose of providing personal care services (no nursing care)
a. Group housing arrangement for physically or mentally handicapped persons
who normally attend school in the community
b. Group housing arrangement for physically or mentally handicapped persons
who are undergoing training in preparation for independent living, for paid
employment, or for other normal community activities.
Residential Board & Care
 Residential Board & Care
c. Group housing arrangement for the elderly that provides personal care services
but that does not provide nursing care
d. Social rehabilitation, alcoholism, drug abuse, or mental health
problems that contain a group housing arrangement and that provide personal
care services but do not provide acute care.
e. Assisted living facilities
f. Other group housing arrangements that provide personal care services but not
nursing care
Building used to house one (1) or more
persons under varied degrees of restraint or security where such occupants are
Detention & Correctional
mostly incapable of self-preservation because of security measures not under the
occupants’ control.
Occupancies are those occupancies in which sleeping accommodations
are provided for normal residential purposes and include all buildings designed to
provide sleeping accommodation.
Residential
Examples: hotels, motels, apartelles, pension houses, inns, apartments,
condominiums, dormitories, lodging or rooming houses, and single and two -family
dwellings, and the likes.
Stores, markets, and other rooms, buildings, or
structures for the display and/or sale of merchandise.
Examples: malls, supermarkets, department stores, shopping
centers, flea markets, restaurants of less than fifty (50) persons capacity, public/private
dry and wet markets, water refilling stations, drugstores, hardwares/construction Mercantile
supplies, showrooms, and auction rooms.
Office, storage, and service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and
located in the same building should be considered part of the mercantile occupancy
classification.
Building used for the transaction of business other than that
covered under Mercantile, for the keeping of accounts and records, and similar
purposes.
Business
Examples: General offices, city/municipal halls, business process outsourcing
(BPO), call centers, Internet shops, massage parlors, beauty parlors, barbershops of
less than fifty (50) occupants, and court houses.
Ffactories that make products of all kinds and properties which shall include but not be limited to
product processing, assembling
and disassembling, mixing, packaging, finishing or decorating, repairing, and material
Industrial
recovery, including factories of all kinds, laboratories, dry cleaning plants, power
plants, pumping stations, smokehouses, gas plants, refineries, sawmills, laundries, and
creameries
Buildings or structures utilized primarily for the storage
or sheltering of goods, merchandise, products, vehicles, or animals
Examples: warehouses, cold storages, freight terminals, truck and marine Storage
terminals, bulk oil storage, LPG storage, parking garages, hangars, grain elevators,
barns, and stables.
Two (2) or more classes of occupancies occurring/located/situated/existing
in the same building and/or structures so intermingled that separate safeguards are Mixed Occupancies
impracticable.
Buildings or structures which cannot be properly
Special Structures
classified in any of the preceding occupancy groups.
Low Hazard
Moderate Hazard Classification of Hazard Contents
High Hazard
Low combustibility that no self-propagating fire therein can occur and
that, consequently, the only probable danger requiring the use of emergency exits will be Low Hazard
from panic, fumes or smoke or fire from some external source.
Those which are liable to burn with moderate rapidity or to give off a considerable
volume of smoke but from which neither poisonous fumes nor explosions are to be expected Moderate Hazard
in the event of fire
Those which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity or from which poisonous gases or
High Hazard
explosions are to be expected in the event of fire
A continuous and unobstructed route of exit from one point in a building,
Means of Egress
structure or facility to a public
That portion of means of egress that leads to an exit Exit
That portion of means of egress that is separated from all other spaces of a building or
structure by construction, location, or equipment as required to provide a protected way Exit Access
of travel to the exit discharge.
That portion of a means of egress between the termination of an exit and a public way. Exit Discharge
Fire resistance rating of the exit inclosure if exit connects 3 storeys or less 1 hour
Fire resistance rating of the exit inclosure if exit connects 4 storeys or less 2 hours
Minimum number of exits for 0-500 occupant load 2 exits
Minimum number of exits 501-999 occupant load 3 exits
Minimum number of exits 1000 or more occupant load 4 exits
1/2 of the maximum overall diagonal
Location at a distance if 2 exits are requires
dimension
Maximum dead end limits 6 meters
Doors from a room to an exit or to a way of exit access swing with exit travel
Yard, courts, open space that lead to a public
All exits shall directly terminate at exterior exit discharge
way
Travel distance to exits for individual rooms with the maximum occupant load of 6 15 meters from any point in the room
Minimum headroom 2.0 meters
Provide a self-closing mechanism for exit doors Doors
When serving a room or area with an occupant load of 50 or more persons
When used in an exit door Swing out door
When serving a high hazard contents area
Clear opening of door/ Exit door width 0.71 meters
Maximum door leaf width 1.22 meters
Minimum width of existing stairs 0.915 meters
Minimum width of new stairs if occupant load is 0-49 0.915 meters
Minimum width of new stairs if occupant load is 50-1999 1.120 meters
Minimum width of new stairs if occupant load is 2000 above 1.420 meters
Maximum riser height of existing stairs .205 meters
Maximum riser height of new stairs .180 meters
Minimum riser height of new stairs .100 meters
Minimum tread depth of existing stairs .230 meters
Minimum tread depth of new stairs .280 meters
Maximum height between landings of new and existing stairs 3.66 meters
Minimum width clear of all obstructions, except projections not
more than one hundred fourteen millimeters (114 mm) at or 1.120 meters
below handrail height on each side
Maximum slope 1:12
Maximum cross slope 1:48
Maximum rise for a single ramp run 0.760 m
Handrail dimensions from upper surface of a tread .760m-.865m
Values of illumination floors of means of egress shall be at all points 10.7 lux
Not allowed as fire escape or means of egress Ladders
Any visual or audible signal produced by a device or system to warn the occupants
Fire Alarm
of the building or firefighting elements of the presence or danger of fire
A fire alarm system activated by the presence of fire, where the signal is
Fire Alerting System
transmitted to designated locations instead of sounding a general alarm
High rise buildings, hospitals, schools, hotels, apartments 4 storeys or taller, Mallls Fire Alarm Required
Assembly occupancies with at least 1,000 occupant load
Schools, hospitals, bussinesses, hotels, etc. 4 storeys or taller Wet Stand Pipe Required
Hazardous occupancies exceeding 1,860 sqm. per floor
Buildings with approved sprinkler system Wet Stand Pipe Exceptions
All buildings must within of a nozzle attached of 22m 6 meters
Minimum diameter of wet stand pipes 64mm diamtere