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1 MEETING MINUTES NFPA Correlating Committee on Safety to Life (SAF-AAC) November 7, 2013 Second Draft Meeting Embassy Suites Atlanta Hartsfield Airport Hotel Atlanta, GA 1. Call to Order. The meeting was called to order by Chair Bill Koffel at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 7, 2013 at Embassy Suites Atlanta Hartsfield Airport Hotel, Atlanta, GA. 2. Introduction of Participants. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATED William Koffel, Chair Koffel Associates, Inc. Ron Coté, Nonvoting Secretary National Fire Protection Association Chad Beebe, Nonvoting Member ASHE AHA Rep. TC on Board & Care Facilities Warren Bonisch, Nonvoting Member Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation Rep. TC On Residential Occupancies Kenneth Bush, Nonvoting Member Maryland State Fire Marshal s Office Rep. TC on Mercantile & Business Occupancies David Collins, Principal The Preview Group, Inc. Rep. American Institute of Architects Michael DiMascio, Nonvoting Member Arup Rep. TC on Detention & Correctional Facilities Howard Hopper, Principal Underwriters Laboratories LLC Kenneth Isman, Principal National Fire Sprinkler Association J. Edmund Kalie, Principal Prince George s County Government David Klein, Nonvoting Member US Department of Veterans Affairs Rep. TC on Health Care Occupancies George McCall, Principal Wade Hampton Fire Department Rep. International Association of Fire Chiefs SAF-AAC Life Safety Correlating Committee Second Draft Meeting Minutes Page 1

2 Wayne Moore, Nonvoting Member Michael O Brian, Alternate to George McCall Isaac Papier, Principal Henry Paszczuk, Nonvoting Member Jake Pauls, Principal James Quiter, Principal Ronald Reynolds, Principal Eric Rosenbaum, Principal Aleksy Szachnowicz, Nonvoting Member Jeffrey Tubbs, Nonvoting Member Hughes Associates, Inc. Rep. Signaling Systems Correlating Committee Brighton Area Fire Authority Rep. International Association of Fire Chiefs Honeywell, Inc. Rep. National Electrical Manufacturers Association Connecticut Department of Public Safety Rep. TC on Interior Finish & Furnishings Jake Pauls Consulting Services in Building Use & Safety Rep. American Public Health Association Arup Virginia State Fire Marshal s Office Rep. International Fire Marshals Association Hughes Associates, Inc. Rep. American Healthcare Association Anne Arundel County Public Schools Rep. TC on Educational & Day-Care Occupancies Arup Rep. TC on Assembly Occupancies GUESTS Jonathan Humble Faimeen Shah Robert Solomon Tracy Vecchiarelli Jerry Wooldridge AISI Exova Warrington Fire UAE NFPA NFPA Reedy Creek Improvement District PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO DID NOT PARTICIPATE Wayne Holmes, Principal HSB Professional Loss Control 3. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes. The November 6, 2012 meeting minutes were approved as written and distributed. It was noted that in Item 4 Liaison Reports, relative to the Sprinkler Project, that NFPS 750 should have been NFPA New Codes and Standards Revision Process and Actions Permitted of Correlating Committees. Staff used the PowerPoint slides included in the agenda to explain the Second Draft phase of the revision process including the actions available to the CC. SAF-AAC Life Safety Correlating Committee Second Draft Meeting Minutes Page 2

3 5. Liaison Reports. Fire Alarm and Signaling Project Wayne Moore reported. NFPA 72 is in the Annual 2015 cycle (June 2014 Association Action) that will produce the 2016 edition. First Draft balloting has been conducted. The committees have addressed utilizing Internet/Ethernet connections to transmit alarm signals. Sprinkler Project Bill Koffel reported. NFPA 13/13D/13R are in the Annual 2015 cycle (June 2014 Association Action) that will produce the 2016 edition. First Draft balloting has been conducted and Correlating Committee will meet in December. Provisions related to sprinkler exemptions for health care patient clothes closets and apartment unit bathrooms are being coordinated with similar exemptions permitted by NFPA Update on NFPA 101A Revision. The Correlating Committee will be provided with the First Revisions balloted by the NFPA 101A Technical Committee on Alternative Approaches. If correlation issues are raised by CC members, Chair Bill Koffel will call a telephone conference meeting for the purpose of developing Correlating Notes. If no correlation issues are raised, the First Draft Report will move to publication and distribution. 7. Interior Finish and Furnishings Technical Committee Name and Scope Change. The Correlating Committee received, for information purposes, notification that the name/scope change as requested for BLD/SAF-INT (formerly FUR) had been approved by the Standards Council. 8. Fire Protection Features Technical Committee Scope Expansion. The Correlating Committee reviewed the scope changes drafted by the BLD/SAF-FIR committee in response to a directive from the BLD-AAC and SAF-AAC correlating committees. The CC further revised the draft language to move the portion related to special hazards to a separate sentence. The CC directed that the revised language be returned to BLD/SAF- FIR for its concurrence or further change. The revised language reads as follows: BLD/SAF-FIR Scope: This committee shall have primary responsibility for documents on construction compartmentation, including the performance of assemblies, openings, and penetrations, as related to the protection of life and property from fire and other circumstances capable of producing similar consequences. The committee shall also have primary responsibility for special hazards as related to the protection of life and property from fire and other circumstances capable of producing similar consequences. 9. Supplemental Operating Procedures. The discussion on Supplemental Operating Procedures (SOP) that began at the November 2012 meeting continued. NFPA Standards Administration has clarified that only subjects not addressed by the Regulations and those not addressed by other Standards Council-issued directives are allowed to be considered SAF-AAC Life Safety Correlating Committee Second Draft Meeting Minutes Page 3

4 for inclusion in SOP. All SOP are required to be approved by the Standards Council. The Safety to Life SOP were last approved in 2002 and unapproved items have been added since. The Correlating Committee was not ready to abandon the SOP without studying if anything should be retained for submittal to the Council for approval or if recommendations should be made to the Council to include something new in the Regulations. The BLD-AAC and SAF-AAC chairs will appoint a small task group to address the issue. The task group will be asked to complete its work before the technical committees begin work on the 2018 edition of the Code (by October of 2014). 10. Assigning Responsibility for Definitions to Technical Committees. The Correlating Committee received the task group s report that assigned each defined term to a specific technical committee. The CC created a Second Correlating Revision that will add the TC assignment to each definition for the 2015 edition. When the TCs begin work on the 2018 edition, Public Input on definitions will be assigned to the applicable committee for action. The task group was discharged. 11. Update on Hazardous Materials Task Group. The task group has been formed from volunteers from TCs responsible for NFPA 101 and NFPA Jeff Tubbs agreed to chair the task group. The task group s scope will include consideration of health hazards and MAQs for inclusion in NFPA Guideline on References to Proprietary Products and Services. The guideline was noted as received and played a role in the creation of a Second Correlating Revision (SCR-16) on annex material related to fire stopping. 13. Recommended Changes to / Life Safety Evaluation from SAF-AXM Chair Jeff Tubbs. The Correlating Committee agreed that it was outside its scope to make the technical changes recommended by Jeff Tubbs, but agreed that the changes made for better treatment of the subject than what the Assembly Occupancies Committee had been able to achieve in the limited time available to it. Jeff Tubbs agreed to pursue a Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) that, if successful, could be issued as part of the 2015 edition of the Code by the Standards Council. 14. Carbon Monoxide Detection Correlation. The Correlating Committee agreed that correlation concerns dictate that the chapter for new residential board and care facilities should include requirements for carbon monoxide detection and alarm as is done in all the chapters applicable to new residential occupancies. The CC could not agree on language and directed that the BLD/SAF-BCF committee pursue a Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) that, if successful, could be issued as part of the 2015 edition of the Code by the Standards Council. TC Chair Chad Beebe agreed to convene a task group to develop/approve language that could be included in the TIA ballot. 15. Correlating Committee Review and Action on Second Draft Report as Prepared by the SAF Technical Committees. The Correlating Committee reviewed the in-process Second Draft as presented in Terra, the TCs Second Revisions, the TC responses to Correlating Notes from the First Draft, and other supporting materials. Based on its SAF-AAC Life Safety Correlating Committee Second Draft Meeting Minutes Page 4

5 review, the CC drafted/approved Second Correlating Revisions (SCR). The SCR will be balloted after NFPA editorial staff have incorporated the changes into the Second Draft. 16. Notes to Technical Committees for Next Revision Cycle. Correlating Committee members were provided the opportunity to assign topics to the TCs for consideration during the next revision cycle. BLD/SAF-FIR and BLD/SAF-MEA were asked to consider how means of egress remoteness, particularly remoteness of exit accesses, is affected by vertical openings used for egress. BLD/SAF-AXM was asked to continue its work toward improving the provisions for the Life Safety Evaluation should the TIA addressed in item 13 of these minutes fail. BLD/SAF-BCF was asked to continue its work toward implementing provisions for carbon monoxide detection and alarm should the TIA addressed in item 14 of these minutes fail. 17. Other Business. Chair Bill Koffel recognized the service of TC chairs who will be relinquishing the chair position due to tenure limitations at the end of the current revision cycle: Warren Bonisch BLD/SAF-RES, Ken Bush BLD/SAF-MER, Mike DiMascio BLD/SAF-DET, Jim Lathrop BLD/SAF-MEA, and Alex Szachnowicz BLD/SAF-END. 18. Next Meeting. The Correlating Committee agreed to meet in a web-based, joint teleconference with the Building Code Correlating Committee for purposes of planning for the 2018-edition revision cycle. The meeting will be held in the February-March 2015 time frame. 19. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 4:25 p.m. Minutes prepared by Ron Coté and Kelly Carey SAF-AAC Life Safety Correlating Committee Second Draft Meeting Minutes Page 5