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National Fire Codes - Authoritative?
Posted by: PMK140 (IP Logged)
Date: March 09, 2007 05:36PM
There are some 400 documents encompassed in the NFPA’s National Fire Codes. There are codes, standards, recommended practices, and guides. The NFPA has specifically defined what each type of document is. All of the National Fire Codes are peer-reviewed. Each is promulgated through the NFPA consensus system. That system has been recognized as an ANSI standard, and is widely accepted.
Some of the National Fire Code component document Codes and Standards have been adopted as or into local, state and federal laws.
Here’s my point, are all of these documents “authoritative?” Are any of them authoritative? Are some authoritative and others not, if so, which ones? These are presented as rhetorical questions. But in some courtrooms a fire investigator which testifies that NFPA is not “authoritative” has been asked these questions, and not only about 921. An Example – “Sir are telling this courtroom that the National Electric Code, which is the law in this state, has no authority – is not authoritative?”
Pat Kennedy, CFEI, CFPS, MIFireE
Fire and Explosion Analyst
Sarasota, Florida
[www.kennedy-fire.com]
Some of the National Fire Code component document Codes and Standards have been adopted as or into local, state and federal laws.
Here’s my point, are all of these documents “authoritative?” Are any of them authoritative? Are some authoritative and others not, if so, which ones? These are presented as rhetorical questions. But in some courtrooms a fire investigator which testifies that NFPA is not “authoritative” has been asked these questions, and not only about 921. An Example – “Sir are telling this courtroom that the National Electric Code, which is the law in this state, has no authority – is not authoritative?”
Pat Kennedy, CFEI, CFPS, MIFireE
Fire and Explosion Analyst
Sarasota, Florida
[www.kennedy-fire.com]
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