What is a Fire Safety Evaluation System (FSES)?
A fire safety evaluation system (commonly referred to as a ?FSES?) is a method of demonstrating that a building or occupancy provides a degree of safety that is equivalent to that provided by the prescriptive requirements of the Life Safety Code. NFPA 101A Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety is referenced by the Life Safety Code and offers a detailed set of requirements that must be followed to prepare an FSES to assess both active and passive fire protection features in a building to determine if the overall conditions can be considered equivalently safe to that provided if the building complied with the Life Safety Code. NFPA 101A provides detailed worksheets that must be completed to assess an occupancy. NFPA 101A does not offer an FSES process for all occupancies. Currently, FSES processes are prescribed for: business, detention and correctional, educational, health care, and residential board and care occupancies. It is the current policy of the Office of the State Fire
A fire safety evaluation system (commonly referred to as a “FSES”) is a method of demonstrating that a building or occupancy provides a degree of safety that is equivalent to that provided by the prescriptive requirements of the Life Safety Code. NFPA 101A Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety is referenced by the Life Safety Code and offers a detailed set of requirements that must be followed to prepare an FSES to assess both active and passive fire protection features in a building to determine if the overall conditions can be considered equivalently safe to that provided if the building complied with the Life Safety Code. NFPA 101A provides detailed worksheets that must be completed to assess an occupancy. NFPA 101A does not offer an FSES process for all occupancies. Currently, FSES processes are prescribed for: business, detention and correctional, educational, health care, and residential board and care occupancies. It is the current policy of the Office of the State Fire
