NFPA (Fire) 101A

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Apply the updated edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, to correctly determine equivalencies and avoid dangerous and costly errors.

Be prepared to confidently determine equivalencies – or evaluate if something maintains an adequate level of life safety – with the latest edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety. Essential for facility managers, inspectors, and code enforcers, NFPA 101A is used alongside NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, to facilitate equivalency requests using numerically based fire safety evaluation systems (FSESs). Mandatory values in each FSES reflect the requirements of the 2021 edition of NFPA 101.

NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, provides FSESs for a wide range of occupancy types. Each chapter presents a different system and includes the following occupancies:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, has seen numerous updates for the 2022 edition, including the following:

• Changes for mandatory safety values in the various fire safety evaluation systems
• Recognition of a 12-year compliance window for automatic sprinkler systems in existing high-rise buildings containing health care occupancies
• Revised numerical FSES scoring models to reflect the changes in the 2021 edition of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code

NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, also contains:

• Timesaving forms for recording building and life safety features
• Related worksheets
• Tools used to present an equivalency request to the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ)
• Procedure for determining evacuation capability in existing board and care facilities

Use the 2022 edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, to help ensure that equivalency is measured accurately against the requirements of the 2021 edition of NFPA 101. (Print, 96 pp., 2022)

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Published:

04/08/2021

Number of Pages:

89

NFPA (Fire) 101A

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NFPA 101A has been updated to incorporate revisions in the 2006 Life Safety Code®!

NFPA 101A consists of a number of alternative approaches to life safety. Each chapter is a different system independent of the others and is to be used in conjunction with the 2006 edition of NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code.

The 2007 edition of NFPA 101A presents changes to the existing five Fire Safety Evaluation Systems (FSES) to assure that they accurately measure equivalency against the requirements of the current edition of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code.

The FSES address the following occupancy types:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

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Published:

09/30/2009

Number of Pages:

86

NFPA (Fire) 101A

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Current Life Safety Code users will find up-to-code alternative life safety approaches in the 2013 edition of NFPA 101A.

Intended for use in conjunction with the most recent edition of NFPA 10: Life Safety Code, the 2013 NFPA 101A: Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety provides alternative approaches to life safety for the following occupancy types:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

Each chapter is a different system independent of the others. The 2013 edition of NFPA 101A contains forms for recording building and life safety features, related worksheets, and other tools involved in a formalized method for presenting an equivalency request to the AHJ.

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Published:

06/18/2012

ISBN(s):

9781455904198

NFPA (Fire) 101A

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Apply the updated edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, to correctly determine an equivalency and avoid dangerous and costly errors.

Be prepared to confidently determine an equivalency — or evaluate that it has an adequate level of life safety — with the latest edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety. Essential for facility managers, inspectors, and Code enforcers, NFPA 101A is used alongside NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, to facilitate an equivalency request using numerically-based fire safety evaluation systems (FSESs). Mandatory values in each FSES reflect the requirements in the 2018 edition of NFPA 101.

NFPA 101A provides FSESs for a wide range of occupancy types. Each chapter presents a different system independent of the others. Coverage includes the following occupancies:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

NFPA 101A also contains:

• Timesaving forms for recording building and life safety features
• Related worksheets
• Tools involved in a formalized method for presenting an equivalency request to the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ)

Use the 2019 edition of NFPA 101A to help ensure that equivalency is measured accurately against the requirements of the 2018 edition of NFPA 101. (Softbound, Approx. 88 pp., 2019)

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Published:

09/03/2018

Number of Pages:

96

NFPA (Fire) 101A

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Correctly determine an equivalency using the 2016 edition of NFPA 101A: Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety.

As a facility manager, inspector, or Code enforcer, having the latest edition of NFPA 101A keeps you in-the-know about how to determine an equivalency — or to evaluate that it has an adequate level of life safety. An essential companion to the 2015 NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code®, the 2016 edition of NFPA 101A: Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety facilitates an equivalency request using the numerically based fire safety evaluation systems (FSESs).

Mandatory values in each FSES reflect the requirements in the 2015 NFPA 101. NFPA 101A provides Code compliant FSESs for a wide range of occupancy types, including:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

Each chapter presents a different system independent of the others. NFPA 101A also contains timesaving forms for recording building and life safety features, related worksheets, and other tools involved in a formalized method for presenting an equivalency request to the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ).

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Published:

06/15/2015

ISBN(s):

9781455911677

Number of Pages:

97

NFPA (Fire) 101A

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NFPA 101A has been updated to incorporate revisions in the 2006 Life Safety Code®!

NFPA 101A consists of a number of alternative approaches to life safety. Each chapter is a different system independent of the others and is to be used in conjunction with the 2006 edition of NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code.

The 2007 edition of NFPA 101A presents changes to the existing five Fire Safety Evaluation Systems (FSES) to assure that they accurately measure equivalency against the requirements of the current edition of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code.

The FSES address the following occupancy types:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

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Published:

10/15/2006

Number of Pages:

84