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NFPA
72, “National Fire Alarm Code“,
establish the minimum requirements for design, installation, location,
performance, inspection, test and maintenance of fire detection
systems, fire notification, warning equipments and their components.
The purpose of this normative is to provide a reasonable level of
protection against fire, preserve human life and property, through
requirement definition for fire protection alarm installation based on
principles of engineering, testing data and field experience. The code
supplies the procedures for proper inspection as well as to evaluate
effectiveness and implementation, equipment selection, specifications,
design, installation, test, inspection, maintenance and usage of fire
detection and alarm systems.
In general terms the code includes: Components and type of systems;
public and private regulations; alarm trigger devices, alarm
supervision devices and alarm annunciation devices; requirements of
longitude and coverage; requirements of energy supply and trigger
circuit devices, signal line circuits, annunciation equipment circuit
and transmission technology; distances between devices and it`s
location; inter phase within fire protection alarms for security
functions, elevator controls to call and stop, suppression and
extinguishing activation; general testing and inspection of fire
protection alarms along with it’s periodicity.
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