ACHA Exam - NFPA 101 Flashcards
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What is the NFPA 101?
It is known as the Life Safety Code, is a comprehensive safety code that addresses the various aspects of life and property safety from fire and hazards from both man-made and natural events
What chapter of NFPA 101 is for New Health Care Occupancies
Chapter 18
What chapter of NFPA 101 is for Existing Health Care Occupancies
Chapter 19
What chapter of NFPA 101 is for New Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies?
Chapter 20
What chapter of NFPA 101 is for Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies?
Chapter 21
3.3.22* Area of Refuge
An area that is either (1) a story in a building where the building is protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system and has not less than two accessible rooms or spaces separated from each other by smoke-resisting partitions; or (2) a space located in a path of travel leading to a public way that is protected from the effects of fire, either by means of separation from other spaces in the same building or by virtue of location, thereby permitting a delay in egress travel from any level.
3.3.22.1 Accessible Area of Refuge
An area of refuge that complies with the accessible route requirements of ICC/ANSI A117.1, American National Standard for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities.
3.3.27* Atrium
A large-volume space created by a floor opening or series of floor openings connecting two or more stories that is covered at the top of the series of openings and is used for purposes other than an enclosed stairway; an elevator hoistway; an escalator opening; or as a utility shaft used for plumbing, electrical, air-conditioning, or communications facilities.
3.3.33* Birth Center
A facility in which low-risk births are expected following normal, uncomplicated pregnancies, and in which professional midwifery care is provided to women during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
3.3.221.1 Fire Protection Rating
The designation indicating the duration of the fire test exposure to which a fire door assembly or fire window assembly was exposed and for which it met all the acceptance criteria as determined in accordance with NFPA 252, Standard Methods of Fire Tests of Door Assemblies, or NFPA 257, Standard on Fire Test for Window and Glass Block Assemblies, respectively.
3.3.221.2 Fire Resistance Rating
The time, in minutes or hours, that materials or assemblies have withstood a fire exposure as determined by the tests, or methods based on tests, prescribed by this Code.
3.3.188.1* Ambulatory Health Care Occupancy
An occupancy used to provide services or treatment simultaneously to four or more patients that provides, on an outpatient basis, one or more of the following: (1) treatment for patients that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others; (2) anesthesia that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others; (3) emergency or urgent care for patients who, due to the nature of their injury or illness, are incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others.
3.3.188.2* Assembly Occupancy
An occupancy (1) used for a gathering of 50 or more persons for deliberation, worship, entertainment, eating, drinking, amusement, awaiting transportation, or similar uses; or (2) used as a special amusement building, regardless of occupant load.
3.3.188.7* Health Care Occupancy
An occupancy used to provide medical or other treatment or care simultaneously to four or more patients on an inpatient basis, where such patients are mostly incapable of self-preservation due to age, physical or mental disability, or because of security measures not under the occupants’ control.
3.3.162.2 Occupant Load
The total number of persons that might occupy a building or portion thereof at any one time.
Goals:
4.1.1* Fire
A goal of this Code is to provide an environment for the occupants that is reasonably safe from fire by the following means:
*Protection of occupants not intimate with the initial fire development
Improvement of the survivability of occupants intimate with the initial fire development
18.1.1.3 Total Concept:
18.1.1.3.1
All health care facilities shall be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated to minimize the possibility of a fire emergency requiring the evacuation of occupants.
18.1.1.3 Total Concept:
18.1.1.3.2
Because the safety of health care occupants cannot be ensured adequately by dependence on evacuation of the building, their protection from fire shall be provided by appropriate arrangement of facilities; adequate, trained staff; and development of operating and maintenance procedures composed of the following:
Design, construction, and compartmentation
Provision for detection, alarm, and extinguishment
Fire prevention procedures and planning, training, and drilling programs for the isolation of fire, transfer of occupants to areas of refuge, or evacuation of the building
18.1.1.4.1 Additions
Additions shall be separated from any existing structure not conforming to the provisions within Chapter 19 by a fire barrier having not less than a 2-hour fire resistance rating and constructed of materials as required for the addition. (See 4.6.7 and 4.6.11.)
18.1.1.4.2 Changes of Use or Occupancy Classification
Changes of use or occupancy classification shall comply with 4.6.11, unless otherwise permitted by one of the following:
A change from a hospital to a nursing home or from a nursing home to a hospital shall not be considered a change in occupancy classification or a change in use.
A change from a hospital or nursing home to a limited care facility shall not be considered a change in occupancy classification or a change in use.
A change from a hospital or nursing home to an ambulatory health care facility shall not be considered a change in occupancy classification or a change in use.
18.1.1.4.3 Rehabilitation
18.1.1.4.3.1
For purposes of the provisions of this chapter, the following shall apply:
A major rehabilitation shall involve the modification of more than 50 percent, or more than 4500 ft2 (420 m2), of the area of the smoke compartment.
A minor rehabilitation shall involve the modification of not more than 50 percent, and not more than 4500 ft2 (420 m2), of the area of the smoke compartment.
6.1.5.1* Definition — Health Care Occupancy
An occupancy used to provide medical or other treatment or care simultaneously to four or more patients on an inpatient basis, where such patients are mostly incapable of self-preservation due to age, physical or mental disability, or because of security measures not under the occupants’ control.
6.1.6.1* Definition — Ambulatory Health Care Occupancy
An occupancy used to provide services or treatment simultaneously to four or more patients that provides, on an outpatient basis, one or more of the following:
Treatment for patients that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others
Anesthesia that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others
Emergency or urgent care for patients who, due to the nature of their injury or illness, are incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others
18.2.2.2.5.2* Door Locking
Door-locking arrangements shall be permitted where patient special needs require specialized protective measures for their safety, provided that all of the following criteria are met:
Staff can readily unlock doors at all times in accordance with 18.2.2.2.6.
A total (complete) smoke detection system is provided throughout the locked space in accordance with 9.6.2.9, or locked doors can be remotely unlocked at an approved, constantly attended location within the locked space.
*The building is protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system in accordance with 18.3.5.1.
The locks are electrical locks that fail safely so as to release upon loss of power to the device.
The locks release by independent activation of each of the following:
Activation of the smoke detection system required by 18.2.2.2.5.2(2)
Waterflow in the automatic sprinkler system required by 18.2.2.2.5.2(3)
