NFPA responds to the coronavirus: Building & life safety

Fact sheet

NEW! Outdoor Heater Safety

Many restaurants, schools, offices, and other businesses have been using outdoor spaces to stay open and running amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This fact sheet includes information to help ensure that propane heaters and electric heaters for outdoor heating are used safely and in accordance with NFPA 1, Fire Code (2018 edition).

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Fact sheets

Building and Life Safety Issues for Safely Reopening Schools

This fact sheet provides some tips for helping to maintain fire protection and life safety, enabling students, teachers, and other staff members to return to school under the safest conditions possible.

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Building and Life Safety for Tents

This fact sheet focuses mostly on the use of tents by restaurants, but most of these considerations are applicable to the use of tents for any occupancy type.

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Re-opening buildings safely

Fire and Life Safety Checklist for Reopening a Building*

As stay-at-home policies begin to ease in many states, building owners and facility managers are preparing to re-open their doors. This checklist helps make sure they’re truly ready, offering guidelines to ensure that fire protection systems and life safety features are functioning properly.

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Ensuring Safety As Buildings Re-open to a New Normal fact sheet

This fact sheet gives guidelines for specific issues to be addressed for many buildings, including offices, restaurants, and retails stores, with particular attention to adjustments that might be needed for the physical configuration as well as the operational use.

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Guidance for Maintaining Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems Regardless of Occupancy Status*

Use this fact sheet as a guide to ensure that fire protection and life safety systems are maintained in all commercial and multi-occupancy residential buildings throughout this global pandemic.

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Guidance for remote video inspection (RVI)**

The fact sheet offers guidance on remote video inspection (RVI), which could be an alternative to physical inspection. This information was adapted from Conducting Remote Video Inspections, a white paper developed by the Building Code Development Committee (BCDC) of NFPA.

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NFPA responds to the coronavirus

BUILDING & LIFE SAFETY

Fact sheet

NEW! Outdoor Heater Safety

Fact sheets

Building and Life Safety Issues for Safely Reopening Schools

Building and Life Safety for Tents

Re-opening buildings safely

Fire and Life Safety Checklist for Reopening a Building*

Ensuring Safety As Buildings Re-open to a New Normal fact sheet

Fact sheets

Guidance for Maintaining Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems Regardless of Occupancy Status*

Guidance for remote video inspection (RVI)**

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