NFPA 150 Standard on Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities
NFPA 150 賽場馬廄的消防安全標準

1.1 Scope.

1.1.1* This standard shall provide the minimum requirements for the design, construction, fire protection, and classification of animal housing facilities.

A.1.1.1 The requirements of NFPA 150 recognize the following fundamental principles

(1) Animals are sentient beings with a value greater than that of simple property.

(2) Animals, both domesticated and feral, lack the ability of 0self-preservation when housed in buildings and other structures.

(3) Current building, fire, and life safety codes do not address the life safety of the animal occupants. The requirements found in NFPA 150 are written with the intention that animal housing facilities will continue to be designed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the applicable building, fire, and life safety codes. The requirements herein are not intended to replace or rewrite the basic requirements for the human occupants. Instead, NFPA 150 provides additional minimum requirements for the protection of the animal occupants and the human occupants who interact with those animals in these facilities. NFPA 150 is divided into three major sections The first section, Chapters 1 through 3, contains only administrative requirements, while the second section, Chapters 4 through 10, provides general requirements for all facilities housing animals (i.e., facility subclassification, animal category, construction, means of egress, fire protection, and interior finish requirements), and the third section, Chapters 11–13, includes specific requirements focused on the class of the facility.

1.1.2 Animal housing facilities shall be designed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the adopted building, fire, and life safety codes and the requirements herein.

1.1.3 Where requirements of this standard differ from the adopted fire prevention, life safety, and building codes, the requirements of this standard shall govern the protection of the animal occupants and animal handlers.

Apply industry best practices for safety in animal housing facilities with the 2009 NFPA 150!

Improve health and welfare of animals while protecting human life and property with the 2009 NFPA 150 Standard on Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities. This Standard covers all types of animal housing facilities where animals are kept for any purpose, including barns, stable, kennels, animal shelters, veterinary facilities, zoos, laboratories, and racetracks. The Standard is divided into three major sections

·   Section 1 (Chapters 1-3) contains administrative requirements

·   Section 2 (Chapters 4-10) provides general requirements for all facilities housing animals

·   Section 3 (Chapters 11-13) includes specific requirements focused on the class of the facility

Updated to respond to industry developments and trends, changes in the 2009 NFPA 150 include

·   Clarifications regarding the use of Quick Response Sprinklers in areas allowed by NFPA 13

·   Recognition of various type of smoke control/management systems and allows numerous detection options for initiating the operation of the system

·   New options to utilize different fire test protocols to determine flame spread and fire behavior characteristics of interior finish materials.

(Softbound, 26 pp., 2009)