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The Canada Safety Council explains more on fire alarm safety for seniors: “Install a smoke alarm on each level of the home and outside all sleeping areas: in Ontario this is now the law. Anyone who sleeps with the bedroom doors closed should have a smoke alarm inside the bedroom. Test each alarm monthly and replace the battery twice a year.
- Ection 9.7.1. Application and General
- Ection 9.7.2. Containment
- Ection 9.7.3. Means of Egress
- Ection 9.7.4. Fire Alarm and Detection
- Ection 9.7.5. Suppression
Application
9.7.1.1. (1) This Section applies to buildings containing a care occupancy or retirement home. (2) Despite Sentence (1), this Section does not apply to a building or part of a buildingthat is a home or hospital regulated by Section 9.4. (3) Despite Sentence (1), if a building containing a care occupancy or retirement home also contains one or more other occupancies that are not governed by this Part, this Section does not apply to the fire safety systems, devices and structural elements of an...
Conflict
9.7.1.2. (1) In the event of a conflict between this Section and any other Section of this Part that applies to a care occupancy or retirement home, this Section prevails. (2) If a building containing a care occupancy or retirement home also contains one or more other occupancies that are governed by other Sections of this Part, the fire safety systems, devices and structural elements of all the occupanciesgoverned by this Part shall comply with the requirements that provide the greatest prot...
Additional requirements
9.7.1.3. (1) In addition to the requirements of this Section, (a) a building not greater than 6 storeys in building height shall comply with Subsections 9.5.2. to 9.5.5., and (b) a building greater than 6 storeys in building heightshall comply with Subsections 9.6.2. to 9.6.5. (2) Clause (1) (a) does not apply to a building not greater than 3 storeys in building heightthat provides sleeping accommodation for not more than four persons.
Self-closing devices
9.7.2.1. (1) Doors opening onto corridors that are access to exits and that serve resident suites, and resident sleeping rooms not within suites, in care occupancies and retirement homesshall be equipped with self-closing devices. (2) Sentence (1) does not apply (a) in buildings 3 storeys or less in building height that provide sleeping accommodation for 10 or fewer persons, and (b) in buildingswhere all of the corridors referred to in Sentence (1) are subdivided in accordance with Sentence (...
Emergency lighting
9.7.3.1. (1) Emergency lighting shall be provided in exit stairways, public corridors and other principal access to exits. (2) The emergency lighting shall be (a) designed to provide illumination for a duration of at least 30 min, (b) supplied by a source of energy that is separate from the primary electrical supply for the building, and (c) designed to be automatically activated when the power to the buildingis interrupted. (3) The emergency lighting shall provide illumination that is at lea...
Fire signal to fire department
9.7.4.1. (1) Fire alarm systems shall have provision for notifying the fire department in accordance with Article 3.2.4.7. of the 1990 Building Code that a fire alarm signal or alert signalhas been activated. (2) Fire alarm systems equipped with a monitoring service that complies with CAN/ULC-S561, “Installation and Services for Fire Signal Receiving Centres and Systems” are deemed to comply with Sentence (1). (3) Sentence (1) does not apply to buildings equipped with an interconnected smoke...
Sprinkler signal to fire department
9.7.4.2. (1) Sprinkler systems required by this Section shall have provision for notifying the fire department in accordance with Article 3.2.4.7. of the 1990 Building Codethat the sprinkler system has been activated. (2) Sprinkler systems equipped with a monitoring service that complies with CAN/ULC-S561, “Installation and Services for Fire Signal Receiving Centres and Systems” are deemed to comply with Sentence (1). (3) Sentence (1) does not apply where the fire alarm system or interconnect...
Smoke alarms
9.7.4.3. (1) A smoke alarm shall be installed in each suite and in each sleeping room not within a suite. (2) Smoke alarms shall be installed with permanent connections to an electrical circuit and shall have no disconnect switch between the overcurrent device and the smoke alarm. (3) Battery-operated smoke alarmsare deemed to be in compliance with Sentence (2). (4) Smoke alarms required in Sentence (1) shall conform to CAN/ULC-S531, “Standard for Smoke Alarms”. (5) Smoke alarmsrequired in Se...
Sprinkler systems
9.7.5.1. (1) An automatic sprinkler system shall be installed in each buildingin accordance with NFPA 13, “Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems”. (2) Despite Sentence (1), in a building not greater than 3 storeys in building heightthat provides sleeping accommodation for not more than 10 persons, a sprinkler system may be installed in accordance with NFPA 13D, “Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in One- and Two-Family Dwellings and Manufactured Homes”, except tha...
If you need help or advice with your smoke alarms, contact your local fire department for assistance. Other important actions: Install smoke alarms in each bedroom, in the hallway outside the bedrooms and on each level of your home, including the basement in line with the appropriate Provincial or Territorial and Federal Fire and Building Codes.
Oct 12, 2021 · And chapter 30 of NFPA 101 does not require a fire alarm system unless the facility exceeds 11 units and is four or more stories in height. But section 32.2 does require manual fire alarm pull stations in each residential board and care unit when a complete fire alarm system is needed. Emergency plans, drills, and training are required for ...
Focus on these six priorities to help aging family members protect themselves against fire in the home. 1. Smoke Alarms. Install a smoke alarm on each level of the home and outside all sleeping areas: in Ontario this is now the law. Anyone who sleeps with the bedroom doors closed should have a smoke alarm inside the bedroom.
Fire Safety for Canada’s Seniors and Their Caregivers. Be sure your home has fire and smoke alarms. More than 50% of home fire deaths occur between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., when most people are sleeping. According to the Canadian Safety Council, older adults face fire risk factors which do not affect the young. Weaker physical (and sometimes ...
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