From sprinklers, alarms, and egress to emergency lighting, smoke barriers, and special hazard protection, today's NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code® is your blueprint for safety! The 2006 edition incorporates the latest technologies, advances, and safety strategies to help you meet today's challenges and achieve higher levels of protection for building occupants than ever before. 429 pp.

To reduce fire injuries and deaths, this latest LSC edition mandates that the following occupancy types must be sprinklered:

• All new 1- and 2-family dwellings
• All existing nursing homes
• Existing nightclub assembly occupancies where occupant load exceeds 100 people
• New nightclub assembly occupancies regardless of occupant load

A new chapter on existing building rehabilitation provides greater flexibility to encourage adaptive reuse without sacrificing life safety.

In previous Code editions, modifications to existing buildings had to comply with provisions for new construction. The 2006 Life Safety Code's new Chapter 43 introduces specific requirements for:

• Repairs
• Renovations
• Additions
• Reconstruction
• Change of use or occupancy classification
• Historic buildings

Other important changes affect:

• Health care occupancy suites
• Alcohol-based hand-rub solution dispensers in corridors of health care occupancies
• Smoke control systems in new malls
• Crowd managers in assembly occupancies
• Stair descent devices for people with disabilities
• Stair width in certain new buildings to improve counter-flow between occupants and first responders.

NFPA 101 2006 Life Safety Code Handbook

When a new Code edition comes out, getting up-to-speed quickly on the latest requirements is essential. No other source accelerates the learning curve to help you apply the 2006 NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code® correctly like NFPA's 2006 Life Safety Code Handbook.

Written by professionals who understand your needs this exclusive guide is your link to authoritative advice direct from the source. Just open the Handbook to access the full 2006 LSC text, insightful commentary, hands-on examples of code application, plus hundreds of helpful photos, illustrations, and tables so you can grasp even the most complex provisions. 1200 pp.

Get the expert backup you require to maximize safety and effectiveness as you:

• Comply with new requirements for sprinklers in residential, assembly, and health care occupancies.
• Enhance safety in assembly occupancies with revised rules that affect main entrance dimension, crowd managers, and inspection of means of egress.
• Work with the new flexible guidelines for existing building rehabilitation.
• Improve protection of patients and staff in health care facilities by implementing new and revised provisions concerning alcohol-based hand-rub solution dispensers, sleeping and treatment suites, and more.
• Facilitate fast and safe escape with revised criteria relating to egress requirements for stairs in buildings with large occupant loads.

Self-adhesive tabs attach directly to the pages of your 2006 Life Safety Code® or Handbook for quick and easy access to the requirements you reference most. Find out why so many Code users won't work without them!