ACHA Exam - NFPA 101

Question 1

What is the NFPA 101?

Answer 1

It is known as the Life Safety Code, is a comprehensive safety code that addresses the various aspects of life and property safety from fire and hazards from both man-made and natural events

Question 2

What chapter of NFPA 101 is for New Health Care Occupancies

Answer 2

Chapter 18

Question 3

What chapter of NFPA 101 is for Existing Health Care Occupancies

Answer 3

Chapter 19

Question 4

What chapter of NFPA 101 is for New Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies?

Answer 4

Chapter 20

Question 5

What chapter of NFPA 101 is for Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies?

Answer 5

Chapter 21

Question 6

3.3.22* Area of Refuge

Answer 6

An area that is either (1) a story in a building where the building is protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system and has not less than two accessible rooms or spaces separated from each other by smoke-resisting partitions; or (2) a space located in a path of travel leading to a public way that is protected from the effects of fire, either by means of separation from other spaces in the same building or by virtue of location, thereby permitting a delay in egress travel from any level.

Question 7

3.3.22.1 Accessible Area of Refuge

Answer 7

An area of refuge that complies with the accessible route requirements of ICC/ANSI A117.1, American National Standard for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities.

Question 8

3.3.27* Atrium

Answer 8

A large-volume space created by a floor opening or series of floor openings connecting two or more stories that is covered at the top of the series of openings and is used for purposes other than an enclosed stairway; an elevator hoistway; an escalator opening; or as a utility shaft used for plumbing, electrical, air-conditioning, or communications facilities.

Question 9

3.3.33* Birth Center

Answer 9

A facility in which low-risk births are expected following normal, uncomplicated pregnancies, and in which professional midwifery care is provided to women during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum

Question 10

3.3.221.1 Fire Protection Rating

Answer 10

The designation indicating the duration of the fire test exposure to which a fire door assembly or fire window assembly was exposed and for which it met all the acceptance criteria as determined in accordance with NFPA 252, Standard Methods of Fire Tests of Door Assemblies, or NFPA 257, Standard on Fire Test for Window and Glass Block Assemblies, respectively.

Question 11

3.3.221.2 Fire Resistance Rating

Answer 11

The time, in minutes or hours, that materials or assemblies have withstood a fire exposure as determined by the tests, or methods based on tests, prescribed by this Code.

Question 12

3.3.188.1* Ambulatory Health Care Occupancy

Answer 12

An occupancy used to provide services or treatment simultaneously to four or more patients that provides, on an outpatient basis, one or more of the following: (1) treatment for patients that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others; (2) anesthesia that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others; (3) emergency or urgent care for patients who, due to the nature of their injury or illness, are incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others.

Question 13

3.3.188.2* Assembly Occupancy

Answer 13

An occupancy (1) used for a gathering of 50 or more persons for deliberation, worship, entertainment, eating, drinking, amusement, awaiting transportation, or similar uses; or (2) used as a special amusement building, regardless of occupant load.

Question 14

3.3.188.7* Health Care Occupancy

Answer 14

An occupancy used to provide medical or other treatment or care simultaneously to four or more patients on an inpatient basis, where such patients are mostly incapable of self-preservation due to age, physical or mental disability, or because of security measures not under the occupants’ control.

Question 15

3.3.162.2 Occupant Load

Answer 15

The total number of persons that might occupy a building or portion thereof at any one time.

Question 16

Goals:
4.1.1* Fire

Answer 16

A goal of this Code is to provide an environment for the occupants that is reasonably safe from fire by the following means:

*Protection of occupants not intimate with the initial fire development

Improvement of the survivability of occupants intimate with the initial fire development

Question 17

18.1.1.3 Total Concept:
18.1.1.3.1

Answer 17

All health care facilities shall be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated to minimize the possibility of a fire emergency requiring the evacuation of occupants.

Question 18

18.1.1.3 Total Concept:
18.1.1.3.2

Answer 18

Because the safety of health care occupants cannot be ensured adequately by dependence on evacuation of the building, their protection from fire shall be provided by appropriate arrangement of facilities; adequate, trained staff; and development of operating and maintenance procedures composed of the following:

Design, construction, and compartmentation

Provision for detection, alarm, and extinguishment

Fire prevention procedures and planning, training, and drilling programs for the isolation of fire, transfer of occupants to areas of refuge, or evacuation of the building

Question 19

18.1.1.4.1 Additions

Answer 19

Additions shall be separated from any existing structure not conforming to the provisions within Chapter 19 by a fire barrier having not less than a 2-hour fire resistance rating and constructed of materials as required for the addition. (See 4.6.7 and 4.6.11.)

Question 20

18.1.1.4.2 Changes of Use or Occupancy Classification

Answer 20

Changes of use or occupancy classification shall comply with 4.6.11, unless otherwise permitted by one of the following:

A change from a hospital to a nursing home or from a nursing home to a hospital shall not be considered a change in occupancy classification or a change in use.

A change from a hospital or nursing home to a limited care facility shall not be considered a change in occupancy classification or a change in use.

A change from a hospital or nursing home to an ambulatory health care facility shall not be considered a change in occupancy classification or a change in use.

Question 21

18.1.1.4.3 Rehabilitation

Answer 21

18.1.1.4.3.1
For purposes of the provisions of this chapter, the following shall apply:

A major rehabilitation shall involve the modification of more than 50 percent, or more than 4500 ft2 (420 m2), of the area of the smoke compartment.

A minor rehabilitation shall involve the modification of not more than 50 percent, and not more than 4500 ft2 (420 m2), of the area of the smoke compartment.

Question 22

6.1.5.1* Definition — Health Care Occupancy

Answer 22

An occupancy used to provide medical or other treatment or care simultaneously to four or more patients on an inpatient basis, where such patients are mostly incapable of self-preservation due to age, physical or mental disability, or because of security measures not under the occupants’ control.

Question 23

6.1.6.1* Definition — Ambulatory Health Care Occupancy

Answer 23

An occupancy used to provide services or treatment simultaneously to four or more patients that provides, on an outpatient basis, one or more of the following:

Treatment for patients that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others

Anesthesia that renders the patients incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others

Emergency or urgent care for patients who, due to the nature of their injury or illness, are incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance of others

Question 24

18.2.2.2.5.2* Door Locking

Answer 24

Door-locking arrangements shall be permitted where patient special needs require specialized protective measures for their safety, provided that all of the following criteria are met:

Staff can readily unlock doors at all times in accordance with 18.2.2.2.6.

A total (complete) smoke detection system is provided throughout the locked space in accordance with 9.6.2.9, or locked doors can be remotely unlocked at an approved, constantly attended location within the locked space.

*The building is protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system in accordance with 18.3.5.1.

The locks are electrical locks that fail safely so as to release upon loss of power to the device.

The locks release by independent activation of each of the following:

Activation of the smoke detection system required by 18.2.2.2.5.2(2)

Waterflow in the automatic sprinkler system required by 18.2.2.2.5.2(3)

Question 25

18.2.2.2.10.1 Horizontal Sliding Doors

Answer 25

Horizontal-sliding doors, as permitted by 7.2.1.14, that are not automatic-closing shall be limited to a single leaf and shall have a latch or other mechanism that ensures that the doors will not rebound into a partially open position if forcefully closed.

Question 26

18.2.2.2.10.2 Horizontal Sliding Doors

Answer 26

Horizontal-sliding doors serving an occupant load of fewer than 10 shall be permitted, provided that all of the following criteria are met:

The area served by the door has no high hazard contents.

The door is readily operable from either side without special knowledge or effort.

The force required to operate the door in the direction of door travel is not more than 30 lbf (133 N) to set the door in motion and is not more than 15 lbf (67 N) to close the door or open it to the minimum required width.

The door assembly complies with any required fire protection rating and, where rated, is self-closing or automatic-closing by means of smoke detection in accordance with 7.2.1.8 and is installed in accordance with NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives.

Where corridor doors are required to latch, the doors are equipped with a latch or other mechanism that ensures that the doors will not rebound into a partially open position if forcefully dosed.

Question 27

18.2.2.5.1.1 Horizontal Exits

Answer 27

Not less than 30 net ft2 (2.8 net m2) per patient in a hospital or nursing home, or not less than 15 net ft2 (1.4 net m2) per resident in a limited care facility, shall be provided within the aggregated area of corridors, patient rooms, treatment rooms, lounge or dining areas, and other similar areas on each side of the horizontal exit.

Question 28

18.2.2.5.1.2 Horizontal Exits

Answer 28

On stories not housing bedridden or litterborne patients, not less than 6 net ft2 (0.56 net m2) per occupant shall be provided on each side of the horizontal exit for the total number of occupants in adjoining compartments.

Question 29

18.2.2.5.2 Horizontal Exits

Answer 29

The total egress capacity of the other exits (stairs, ramps, doors leading outside the building) shall not be reduced below one-third of that required for the entire area of the building.

Question 30

18.2.2.5.4 Horizontal Exits 8’-0” Corridors

Answer 30

A horizontal exit involving a corridor 8 ft (2440 mm) or more in width and serving as a means of egress from both sides of the doorway shall have the opening protected by a pair of swinging doors arranged to swing in opposite directions from each other, with each door having a clear width of not less than 41 1/2 in. (1055 mm), or by a horizontal-sliding door that complies with 7.2.1.14 and provides a clear width of not less than 6 ft 11 in. (2110 mm).

Question 31

18.2.2.5.5 Horizontal Exits 6’-0” Corridors

Answer 31

A horizontal exit involving a corridor 6 ft (1830 mm) or more in width and serving as a means of egress from both sides of the doorway shall have the opening protected by a pair of swinging doors, arranged to swing in opposite directions from each other, with each door having a clear width of not less than 32 in. (810 mm), or by a horizontal-sliding door that complies with 7.2.1.14 and provides a clear width of not less than 64 in. (1625 mm).