Fire Safety Equivalency System
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The Fire Safety Equivalency System (FSES) is a system used in the United States to evaluate the overall level of a buildings fire safety. Taking into account that different types of occupancies have different risks associated, separate FSES forms are used for different occupancies. There are FSES evaluation forms for health care, prisons and jails, office and laboratory buildings, and overnight accommodations in National Parks. [1]
FSES values are standardized in the Life safety code National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 101A.
A FSES evaluation defines the relative impact of a deficiency or proposed improvement to the building. It also provides a means of comparing the effectiveness of proposed improvements by producing a comparative baseline and readily shows the relative gain in fire safety for proposed improvements. [2]
Fire sprinklers have an extensive impact on fire safety and are therefore allotted a high value in the FSES.
[edit] Sources
- ^ Nelson, Harold System for Fire Safety Evaluation of Health Care Facilities
- ^ Huggins, Roland The Impact of Fire Sprinklers on Building Fire Safety Hospital Engineering and Facilities Management (2003)
