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What is NYC FC § 401.4.3?

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This section outlines the required content for a comprehensive fire safety and emergency action plan, detailing the responsibilities of fire safety staff, emergency reporting procedures, occupant notification protocols, and site plans. It applies to building owners responsible for developing and maintaining these plans as mandated by the commissioner.

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401.4.3 Content.

FC § 401.4.3

The rules shall specify the information to be contained in the comprehensive fire safety and emergency action plan, which shall include the following information and documentation, and/or such other information and documentation as the commissioner may prescribe: 1. The designation of an FLS director and other FLS staff, and their respective duties and responsibilities, including FLS staff responsible for the operation of building elevators, fire protection systems, mechanical ventilation systems, building utilities, and other building service equipment.

2.The procedures for reporting a fire or other emergency to the department, including the primary and alternative means of such reporting.

3.The procedures for coordinating with firefighting, emergency medical service and other emergency response personnel, including notifying such personnel upon arrival of the location of the emergency and the response thereto.

4.The means provided for receiving and monitoring public emergency notification systems in accordance with FC 401.9.

5.The procedures for notifying building occupants of a fire or other emergency, including the primary and alternative means of such notification, the alarm or tone sounded to alert building occupants, and the information communicated to building occupants.

6.The actions to be taken in response to a fire and each type of non-fire emergency, and whether the response will require the sheltering in place, in-building relocation, partial or full evacuation of building occupants, or combination thereof, and the procedures for each such response.

7.The procedures for accounting for building occupants after such occupants have been in-building relocated, or partially or fully evacuated to a safe area.

8.The procedures for identifying any persons on the premises who are qualified and willing to provide cardio-pulmonary resuscitation or other emergency medical care to building occupants upon notification by the FLS director.

9.Site plans indicating the following: 9.1. Surrounding buildings and streets, including cross streets, and fire apparatus access roads. 9.2. The location of building occupant assembly areas.

10.A written description of the following building components and service equipment and their location, as applicable: 10.1. Access to and egress from the building, including entrances and exits. 10.2. Corridors and exit passageways providing access to exit stairwells or exit discharges. 10.3. Stairwells with letter designation. 10.4. Access and convenience stairs. 10.5. Elevators, with bank letter and car number designations. 10.6. Fire command center. 10.7. Floor warden and firefighter telephones. 10.8. Manual fire alarm boxes. 10.9. Fire department connections, and sprinkler and standpipe system control valves. 10.10. Areas of the building not protected by a sprinkler system. 10.11. Emergency power generators and associated fuel storage. 10.12. Evacuation and in-building relocation routes. 10.13. Areas of refuge and in-building relocation areas. 10.14. Any evacuation assistance devices. 10.15. Automatic external defibrillators required by law to be maintained for public use.

11.Sprinkler system and standpipe system riser diagrams, identifying the locations of the following, as applicable: 11.1. Water supply. 11.2. Fire department connections. 11.3. Gravity and pressure tanks. 11.4. Fire pumps. 11.5. Water supply control valves. 11.6. Piping, except branch sprinkler piping.

12.Locations of hazardous material storage in quantities requiring a permit, and hazardous material operations and facilities regulated by this code.

13.Procedures for identifying in advance building occupants who require assistance to participate in the plan because of an infirmity or disability or other special need, and approved procedures for providing for such assistance.

14.A fire safety maintenance program.

15.A building information card in accordance with FC 401.3.4.

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