Life Safety

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  1. 2. Indicates a recommendation or that which is advised but not required.
  2. 6. A facility, building, or structure used to house chambers and all auxiliary service equipment for medical applications and procedures at pressure above normal atmospheric pressure.
  3. 7. Required extinguisher type for a grease in a commercial kitchen.
  4. 11. An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a code or standard, or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure.
  5. 12. Required every 12 years on fire extinguishers to ensure the cylinder is safe.
  6. 13. An opening in a fire-rated assembly that must be properly sealed to maintain its integrity.
  7. 17. These doors must latch, be self-closing, and bear a visible label.
  8. 21. Categories shall be determined by following and documenting a defined procedure to determine a level hazard.
  9. 22. Acronym used during a fire emergency for staff response.
  10. 25. The continuous and unobstructed path of travel to leave a building in an emergency.
  11. 26. Manual device used to activate a fire alarm system.
  12. 28. Describes the required interval for code-compliant maintenance tasks.
  13. 29. A test instrument designed to continually check the balanced and unbalanced impedance from each line of an isolated circuit to ground and equipped with a built-in test circuit to exercise the alarm without adding to the leakage current hazard. (ELS)
  14. 30. Required in healthcare facilities to provide emergency power to life safety, critical, and equipment branches.
  15. 32. Program required when any life safety system is out of service for more than 4 or 10 hours.
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  1. 1. Substance used to seal penetrations in rated fire barriers.
  2. 3. Term used when a required fire or life safety component does not meet code or performance expectations.
  3. 4. The maximum time, in seconds, that the EPSS will permit the load terminals of the transfer switch to be without acceptable electrical power.
  4. 5. The NFPA code that addresses building construction, protection, and occupancy features to minimize danger to life from fire.
  5. 8. It displays the location of an alarm condition in a fire alarm system.
  6. 9. The process of transferring a medical gas in gaseous or liquid state from one container or cylinder to another container or cylinder (MED).
  7. 10. You must do this to prove that inspections, tests, and maintenance occurred.
  8. 14. The minimum clearance (in inches) required below a sprinkler head.
  9. 15. Required illumination duration (in minutes) for emergency lighting during power failure.
  10. 16. The acronym used to describe how to operate a portable fire extinguisher.
  11. 18. A fire alarm signal indicating a condition that needs attention but isn’t an alarm.
  12. 19. Class extinguisher for flammable liquids, combustible liquids, petroleum greases, tars, oils, oil-based paints, solvents, lacquers, alcohols, and flammable gases.
  13. 20. The process of capturing and carrying away gases vented from the patient breathing circuit during the normal operation of gas anesthesia or analgesia equipment.
  14. 23. The section of the code and standards that is provided for guidance and explanatory material.
  15. 24. Indicates a mandatory requirement.
  16. 25. The final door or opening in the egress path leading out of the building.
  17. 27. Type of material that expands when exposed to heat, sealing gaps in fire barriers.
  18. 31. Fire sprinkler heads must not have this on them unless it is from the manufacturer.