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NFPA 72 Document Information:
Title
National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code
National Fire Protection Association
Publication Date:
Jan 1, 2010
Scope:
NFPA 72 covers the application, installation, location,
performance, inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm
systems, supervising station alarm systems, public emergency alarm
reporting systems, fire warning equipment and emergency
communications systems (ECS), and their components.
The provisions of this chapter apply throughout the Code unless
otherwise noted.
Purpose.
The purpose of this Code is to define the means of signal
initiation, transmission, notification, and annunciation; the
levels of performance; and the reliability of the various types of
fire alarm systems, supervising station alarm systems, public
emergency alarm reporting systems, fire warning equipment,
emergency communications systems, and their components.
This Code defines the features associated with these systems and
also provides information necessary to modify or upgrade an
existing system to meet the requirements of a particular system
classification.
This Code establishes minimum required levels of performance,
extent of redundancy, and quality of installation but does not
establish the only methods by which these requirements are to be
achieved.
This Code shall not be interpreted to require a level of
protection that is greater than that which would otherwise be
required by the applicable building or fire code.
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