While studying the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code — a standard designed to help protect people during fires by ensuring safe exits, proper detection systems and clear evacuation routes — one recent ...

June 19, 2023 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Fire Protection Research Foundation have announced the winners of the Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal and the Harry C.

Fire doors are required to close and latch in order to provide protection during a fire. One strategy for locking classroom doors quickly is to leave the door hardware locked at all times but prevent ...

While it may be considered by some as a tedious and necessary evil, fire protection systems require and deserve a specific amount of inspection, testing and maintenance regimens to help ensure ...

The latest update to NFPA LiNK introduces AI-powered tools and workflow enhancements designed to help safety professionals apply codes and standards faster, more accurately, and with greater ...

Even before the pandemic, the traditional American office building was on life support. Now, real estate developers across the country are reinventing existing properties, often converting them into ...

Firefighters respond to a five-alarm fire in a row of apartment buildings in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 6. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS) A New Year’s celebration in the Swiss Alps turned ...

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Alice Epstein, director of risk control at CNA HealthPro, presented on compliance essentials for the life safety code in ...