In recent years, concerns about school safety have intensified, prompting educators and administrators to seek effective ways to protect students and staff from a variety of threats. From active ...

Fire doors are required to close and latch in order to provide protection during a fire. One strategy for locking classroom doors quickly is to leave the door hardware locked at all times but prevent ...

Because today’s performance-based codes focus on outcomes rather than wiring methods, networked lighting systems can deliver ...

While studying the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code — a standard designed to help protect people during fires by ensuring safe exits, proper detection systems and clear evacuation routes — one recent ...

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Alice Epstein, director of risk control at CNA HealthPro, presented on compliance essentials for the life safety code in ...

In response to changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Life Safety Code, CannonDesign has launched REALIZE Life Safety Solutions — a suite of services and software solutions ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is being urged to adopt an updated life safety code regulation after providers warned the edition slated to go into effect could cause “unnecessary nursing ...

August 4, 2021 – The NFPA Fire & Life Safety Policy Institute announced the launch of the Ecosystem Assessment Tool that will help users identify gaps in a community’s capacity to support safety and ...

Even before the pandemic, the traditional American office building was on life support. Now, real estate developers across the country are reinventing existing properties, often converting them into ...

The Department of Administrative Services, Office of Life Safety & Emergency Management, publishes this annual report to comply with the reporting requirements contained in Section 485 of the Higher ...