PROPRAC ( RA9514 - “Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008”) Flashcards
RA9514
“Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008”
Any act that would remove or neutralize a fire hazard
Abatement
Any person who acts as agent of the owner and manages the use of a building for him
Administrator
Descriptive of materials that are easily set on fire
Combustible, Flammable or Inflammable
Any liquid having a flash point
at or above 37.8_C (100_F)
Combustible Liquid
A normally open device installed inside an air duct system which automatically closes to restrict
the passage of smoke or fire
Damper
A continuous passageway for the
transmission of air
Duct System
The active principle of burning, characterized by the heat and light of combustion
Fire
A building unsafe in case of fire because it will burn easily or because it lacks adequate exits or
fire escapes.
Fire Trap
Any visual or audible signal produced by a device or system to warn the occupants of the building or fire fighting elements of the presence or danger of fire to enable them to undertake immediate
action to save life and property and to suppress the
fire
Fire Alarm
A fire resistive door prescribed for
openings in fire separation walls or partitions.
Fire Door
The portion of a roadway or public way that should be kept opened and unobstructed at all
times for the expedient operation of fire fighting units
Fire Lane
A box or cabinet where fire hoses, valves and other equipment are stored and arranged for fire
fighting.
Hose Box
The purpose for which a building or
portion thereof is used or intended to be used
Occupancy
- Any street, alley or other strip of land unobstructed from the ground to the sky, deeded,
dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated for
public use
Public Way
An integrated network of
hydraulically designed piping installed in a building,
structure or area with outlets arranged in a systematic
pattern which automatically discharges water when
activated by heat or combustion products from a fire.
Sprinkler System
- A system of vertical pipes in a
building to which fire hoses can be attached on each floor, including a system by which water is made
available to the outlets as needed
Standpipe System
An enclosed vertical space of passage that extends from floor to floor, as well as from the
base to the top of the building.
Vertical Shaft
A continuous and unobstructed
route of exit from one point in a building, structure or facility to a public way consisting of three (3) distinct parts: exit, access and exit discharge
Means of Egress
The maximum number of persons
that may be allowed to occupy a particular building,
structure, or facility, or portions hereof.
Occupant Load
A mechanical device consisting of
linkages and horizontal bars across a door, which when pushed from the inside will cause the door to
open and facilitates exit from the building, structure
or facility.
Panic Hardware
Fires involving ordinary combustible materials such as wood, cloth, rubber and plastics
Class A Fire
Fires involving flammable liquids and gases
Class B Fire
Fires involving energized electrical
equipment
Class C Fire
Fires involving combustible materials, such as sodium, magnesium, potassium, and other
similar materials
Class D Fire
Fires in cooking appliances that involve combustible cooking media (vegetable or animal oils
and fats).
Class K Fire
Rule 8
Fire Safety Enforcers
Those of such low combustibility that no self-propagating fire therein can occur and that,
consequently, the only probable danger requiring the
use of emergency exits will be from panic, fumes or
smoke or fire from some external source
LOW HAZARD
Those which are liable to burn
with moderate rapidity or to give off a considerable volume of smoke but from which neither poisonous
fumes nor explosions are to be expected in the event
of fire
MODERATE HAZARD
Those which are liable to burn with
extreme rapidity or from which poisonous gases or explosions are to be expected in the event of fire
HIGH HAZARD
Means of Egress
Minimum Width
not be less than 915 mm
How many exit are for (500) but not more than one thousand (1,000)
(500-999)
not be less than three (3)
✓ Means of egress shall be so arranged that there are
no dead-end pockets, hallways, corridors, passage
ways or courts, whose depth exceeds ____
unless otherwise specified in individual occupancies
six meters (6 m)
A door from a room to an exit or to a way of exit access shall be of the ____,_____. It
shall swing with exit travel
side-hinged, swinging type
The minimum headroom shall not be ____ nor any projection from the ceiling be
_____ from the floor.
less than two meters (2 m), less than two meters (2 m)
Door openings in means of egress shall ____ in clear width. When a pair of doors is provided, not less than one of the doors shall provide _____ clear width opening
not be less than 710 mm, not be less than 710 mm,
No single door in a doorway shall exceed ____ in width
(1.22 m)
Not allowed as fire escape or means of egress
LADDERS
Emergency lighting facilities shall be arranged to
maintain the specified degree of illumination in the
event of failure of the normal lighting for a period of _____
at least 1.5 hours.
The width of any exit access corridor serving fifty (50) or more persons shall
not be less than 1.12 m
✓Exits shall be so arranged that the total length of travel from any point to reach an exit will ____ ) in any place of assembly for spaces not protected by approved, supervised
sprinkler system and _____ in areas
so protected
not exceed 46 m, 61m
Parts of Fire Sprinkler
Orifice
Thread
Plug
Frame
Glass Bulb
Deflector
Parts of Fire Exit Door
Door Hinges
Mortuse Locks
Fire Exit Hardware
Door Closers
Lock Cylinders
Door Accessories Series
