101: Life Safety Code Handbook

$395.95

Gain Unmatched Access to Unparalleled Life Safety Knowledge.

Make the right safety decisions in the built environment to help save lives and avoid costly violations, errors, and work interruptions. The NFPA 101®Life Safety Code® Handbook delivers fundamental criteria for providing appropriate levels of protection in new and existing occupancies.

The NFPA 101, Life Safety Code Handbook features the complete code text along with expert commentary designed to make it easier to comprehend and apply provisions and explain technical language. Make better safety decisions in the built environment to help save lives and avoid costly violations, errors, and work interruptions.

Features of the 2024 NFPA 101 handbook include:

  • Side-by-side requirements for new and existing occupancies
  • Hundreds of full-color illustrations, photos, and tables that assist in explaining code requirements
  • A matrix overview comparing the 2021 and 2024 editions to view substantive changes at a glance
  • “Historical Notes” highlight historic fire events that have influenced changes to the code over the years.

Ever wonder what the difference is between an NFPA handbook and a code or standard? We’re glad you asked.

NFPA codes and standards both provide requirements for achieving outcomes. Handbooks take a deeper dive, providing the full text of a code or standard as well as expert commentary and features such as graphics, decision trees, testing procedures, case studies, sample forms and checklists, and other helpful aids to give a better understanding of the reasoning behind the requirements and how to apply them.

JUST REMEMBER:

  • A code or standard is a framework, a set of rules to follow with a goal to achieve a certain result
  • A handbook is a connector, linking requirements to application by helping you understand the reasoning behind a code or standard

The simplest way to think about it is that codes and standards list the technical requirements while handbooks explain those requirements to clarify how to apply them.

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