“Fire & Safety Management”

Business Continuity & Emergency Awareness

Presented By
M. V. Deshmukh
Director,
Maharashtra Fire Service

Agenda
1. Concepts of Business Continuity
Management

2. Fire Prevention & Fire Protection

Requirements as per National Building Code
2005 and Maharashtra Fire Prevention and
Life Safety Measures Act 2006.

3. Questions & Answers

 Business Continuity Management
• Uncertainty is a way of life!
• Organizations need to
proactively respond to disasters
• Business Continuity and
Emergency Awareness helps to
be prepared
• Better preparation leads to
effective response to emergency
situations
• Your company’s survivability and
the survivability of other
companies in your supply chain
depend on you
• Economic dependence of the
community-at-large…

What is Business Continuity Management?

Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Identifies potential impacts
• Provides a framework for Continuity Management
• Helps defining the Disaster Recover Plan (DRP)

Prepare Initial Recovery Resumption

BCP response Activities Activities

Ongoing Plan After operations stabilise

Disaster
Maintenance at recovery location

Updated BCP
Risk
BCP Maintenance
Mitigation
Strategies

Proactive actions Post disaster activities

 Safe Built Environment
Built around the philosophy of creating and maintaining Safe
Built Environment for people and property by ensuring:
Structural Safety

Health Safety

Fire Safety

Construction Safety

Electric Safety

Environment Safety

Life Safety

Public Safety 5

Classification of Buildings as per NBC 2005

Group A Residential

Group B Educational

Group C Institutional

Group D Assembly

Group E Business

Group F Mercantile

Group G Industrial

Group H Storage

Group J Hazardous

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 SAFETY CONCERNS

One of the distinct developments brought out in
NBC-2005 is an emphasis on safety concerns in
buildings

NBC-2005 considered safety as an important

requirement in buildings starting from
construction stage till it exists.

Ensures safe built environment for all types of

occupancies.

PART 4 : FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY

Deals with Safety from Fire.
Exits in Building V/S Importance of Life Safety.
Involvement of Qualified & Trained Fire Protection
Engineers from the very beginning.
Standards Laid Down to provide safety from fire.
Potential Panic Hazard – measures to minimize Panic
hence control on accidents.
Flexibility V/S Rigidity.
Limitation of Height and areas of Building for Occupants
Safety.
Phasing out of Ozone Depleting Substance- Under
Country Program.
New standards have been already developed and put in
place for Halon alternative clean agents.

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 NBC 2005 - Philosophical Change
Test Divided into
various Clauses resulting in increased Understanding,
Technological Correction & better Application :-
Fire Prevention.
Life Safety.
Fire Protection.
Besides, Provisions specific to High rise buildings and also useful
information on Industrial Venting have been retained with some useful
updates.

ABSOLUTE SAFETY FROM FIRE IS

NOT ATTAINABLE IN PRACTICE

The objective of this part is to specify measures that will provide

that degree of safety from fire which can be reasonably
achieved.

The Code endeavors to avoid requirements that might involve
unreasonable hardships or unnecessary inconvenience or
interference with normal use and occupancy of buildings, insist
upon compliance with minimum standards for fire safety
necessary in public interest.

It is desirable to use such equipments/installation duly certified
under the BIS Certifications Marks Scheme.

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 FIRE PREVENTION
Classification of Buildings (9)

Fire Zones (3)

Types of Construction (4)

Requirements common to all Occupancies

Heating/Smoke venting
Surface and Interior Finish
Glazing/Casement/Skylights/Louvers
Passive systems

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LIFE SAFETY
General Exit Internal Staircases
requirements External Staircases
Occupants Load Pressurization of
Capacities of Exit escape routes
Arrangement of Exits Ramps
Number of Exits Refuge Area
Doorways Fire Lifts/Fire Tower
Corridors/Passage Emergency escape
ways lighting/ Illumination
Horizontal Exits Fire detection and
Warning

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Minimum Requirements for Fire Fighting Installations
as per Table-23.
Type of Installation
1) Fire Extinguisher Water Supply (in l )
2) Hose Reel 10) Underground Static Water
3) Dry Riser Storage Tank
4) Wet Riser 11) Terrace Tank
5) Down comer Pump Capacity (in l/min.)
6) Yard Hydrant 12) Pump near underground static
7) Automatic Sprinkler System water storage tank (Fire Pump) with
8) Manually Operated Electric minimum pressure of 3.5 kg/cm2 at
Fire Alarm Systems terrace level.
9) Automatic Detection and 13) At the Terrace Tank Level with
Alarm System. minimum pressure of 2.0 kg/cm2.

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Fire Protection (Components)

Extinguishers Manual Fire Alarm

Small Bore Hose System
Reels Automatic Fire Alarm
Dry Riser System
Underground Storage
Wet Riser Tank
Down comer Terrace Tank
Yard Hydrant system Ground level Pumps
Automatic Sprinkler Terrace level Pumps
Installation

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 Passive Fire Protection
Fighting Natural Calamities – Common
Guiding Document.
Refuge Area for High Rise Buildings
Types of Construction and Openings
Fire Stops/Enclosure of Openings
Air-conditioning/Ventilation (dampers)
Surface of Flame Spread definitions
Glazing/Skylights (Wired Glass)

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Passive Fire Protection

• Travel Distance based on Type of
Construction.
• Occupant Load.
• Number of Exits in Building.
• Width of Staircases and Passage
• Compartmentation of floor area.
• The existing building regulatory media are normally
silent / deficient with respect to many of NBC
provisions, in general and disaster resistant
mitigation features, in particular
• Many countries have comprehensive national
building code or national standards/ for disaster
protection for earthquake resistant/ cyclone
resistant design and construction practices which
are recommendatory and do not have the
mandatory status for local application.
• There are equally good examples of providing
protection to People and Property through safe
construction by insisting on mandatory building
codes (Seattle, NBC of Canada, UK Building
Regulations, Japanese Codes)
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ENFORCEMENT
The Building Regulatory Media consist
of
Building Byelaws
Building Rules
Planning Standards
Development Control Rules
Fire Act / Regulations
These regulatory Town Planning Act / Rules
documents have Hazard Mapping Rules
to be brought in Water Supply Byelaws
line with Drainage Byelaws
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Therefore, the National Building Code
should be made part or integrated with the
building regulatory documents like the
building bye-laws, planning standards,
building rules or development control
rules and also made part of the building
regulatory practices at various stages
governing building development in cities,
towns and villages

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ENFORCEMENT
Techno-Legal
• This could either Regime
be incorporated in the local building
regulatory documents or made as ‘deemed to satisfy’
provisions by reference. Then automatic compliance
is met with. Where needed, it can be adopted or
adapted to cater to local variations, if any. This
provides a Techno-legal Regime

• Maharashtra Government initiative is a pioneering

step, as per provisions of Maharashtra Fire
Prevention & Life Safety Measures Act 2006,
provisions of NBC 2005 are mandatory. Some of the
State / City Governments have made NBC 2005 as
part of the Building Rules / Fire Protection Rules for
mandatory effect

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 ENFORCEMENT
Introducing Techno-legal regime
through provisions in building
regulatory media and its application
during the stages of

• Building Permit
• Development Permit
• Supervision Control
• Completion Certificate
• Occupancy Permit
• Periodic Renewal Certificate
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ENFORCEMENT
To mandatorily associate the right level of
professionals (architects, engineers, structural
engineers, supervisors, town planners, urban
designers, landscape architect, fire protection
engineers & professionals for utility services)of
degree/diploma or certificate level depending on

• The nature of building (type, size, area, height)

• The location ( mega /metro city, medium/small
town and villages)
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 90% content of all City Building Byelaws are based on
contents of Part II and Part III of NBC; 5% based on
Part IV and balance 5% on all other Parts

Part II Administration of NBC contain

A series of reforms in building permit process.

Provisions for ensuring and certification of safety of
buildings against natural disaster by engineer and
structural engineer.

Provision for two stage permit for high rise residential
and special buildings.

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Adoption of NBC 2005

WAY FORWARD

Provision for periodic renewal certificate of occupied

buildings from structural, fire, electrical and health
safety point of view.

Provision for empowering engineers and architects for
sanctioning plans of residential buildings upto 500m².
Therefore Part II of NBC 2005 to be used in full / part for
revamping existing Building Byelaws

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 Adoption of NBC 2005
WAY FORWARD
 Fire Safety norms are very rarely included in Building Rules.
Some Fire Safety regulations (excepting Mumbai, Delhi,
Kolkata) are provided recently

 Part-IV of NBC contain revamped Fire safety norms through

detailed provisions on Fire Prevention, Life Safety and Fire
Protection

Therefore full adoption of Part IV of NBC 2005 should be

done, without any variations. Some contents can be
directly included in the Building Rules on exit
requirements, fire protection options.
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Towards Safe Built

Thank you for your kind attention
Environment ....

Questions & Answers

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