February 27, 2004—Residents of Louisiana are now protected by the most up-to-date editions of two key safety codes. The 2003 editions of NFPA1, Uniform Fire Code (UFC), and NFPA 101, Life Safety Code are effective in Louisiana as of January 1, 2004.
Both codes are widely used across the country to protect people and property in new and existing buildings. NFPA’s Life Safety Code, used in all 50 states, mandates building design construction, operation, and maintenance requirements to protect building occupants from the dangers caused by fire, smoke, and toxic fumes. NFPA 1 integrates the two most widely adopted fire codes in the country, NFPA 1, Fire Prevention Code and the Uniform Fire Code. The latest edition of NFPA 1 provides requirements necessary to establish a reasonable level of fire safety and property protection from hazards created by fire and explosion.
Code enforcers in Louisiana have participated in an NFPA training program that covered the code’s requirements and ways it can be best utilized. NFPA makes this training and the associated codebooks available free to government code enforcement officials in the state. Free training and codebooks help to reduce costs for Louisiana taxpayers. In addition, such training ensures that code enforcers have the latest reference materials.
NFPA 1 and NFPA 101 are all part of a full set of codes for the built environment developed by NFPA and its partners. The Comprehensive Consensus Codes (C3) represents the only full set of construction-codes that have been developed through processes accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a private, nonprofit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. The 300 NFPA technical committees responsible for developing and updating all codes and standards include 6,000 volunteers, representing enforcing authorities, installation and maintenance, labor, research and testing, insurance, special experts, consumers, and other users.
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