Fire Prevention and Suppression Guidelines in Buildings
Instructions:
There are several standards and guidelines that apply to fire prevention and suppression in buildings. OSHA has promulgated several standards under Subpart H of 29 CFR 1910. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) published the Fire Protection Handbook and several guidelines. Most local building codes also address design and construction of buildings to reduce the risk of fires. Discuss how these standards and guidelines interface with each other. Review 29 CFR 1910.6 athttp://www.osha.gov to see which NFPA guidelines have been incorporated by reference. How does incorporation by reference affect the enforcement of NFPA guidelines? Do you believe incorporating certain guidelines is a good approach by OSHA?
There are several standards and guidelines that apply to fire prevention and suppression in buildings. OSHA has promulgated several standards under Subpart H of 29 CFR 1910. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) published the Fire Protection Handbook and several guidelines. Most local building codes also address design and construction of buildings to reduce the risk of fires. Discuss how these standards and guidelines interface with each other. Review 29 CFR 1910.6 athttp://www.osha.gov to see which NFPA guidelines have been incorporated by reference. How does incorporation by reference affect the enforcement of NFPA guidelines? Do you believe incorporating certain guidelines is a good approach by OSHA?
Solution.
Fire Prevention and Suppression Guidelines in Buildings
Introduction
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, under Subpart H of 29 CFR 1910, has promulgated several standards and guidelines concerning fire prevention and suppression in buildings. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has also published the Fire Protection Handbook and several guidelines that are used to prevent fire in buildings. Local building codes also provide guidelines on building designs that help in reducing deaths and injuries caused by fire.
Discuss how these standards and guidelines interface with each other
The OSHA, NFPA and local building codes interface with each other by ensuring that there is safety in workplaces and in living environments for everybody nationwide, hence reducing deaths, injuries and loss of property through fire in buildings.
How Does Incorporation by Reference Affect the Enforcement of NFPA Guidelines?
OSHA’s weakness is that it is slow in updating standards. Therefore, it has incorporated by reference such organizations such as American Industrial Hygiene Association, AIHA, which anticipates, recognizes, evaluates and controls factors that may cause injuries at workplaces, NFPA whose main mission is to eliminate death and injury and loss of property caused by fire and electricity and the Compressed Gas Association which develops safety guidelines concerning use of gases (Vetter, 2016). Incorporation by reference has given OSHA a chance to enforce the NFPA guidelines and has made it possible for the enforced guidelines to be updated more frequently.
Do you believe incorporating certain guidelines is a good approach by OSHA?
I believe that incorporating certain guidelines is a good approach by OSHA because OSHA can hold people accountable for consensus standards concerning safety even if that particular standard is not present in OSHA’s codes (Jeffress, 1999). This means that people have the responsibility of complying with all the standards that OSHA has incorporated by reference without contesting.
Conclusion
OSHA’s mission is to ensure a safe and
healthy workplace for every working person in the nation. It has incorporated
by reference certain organizations that provide guidelines for fire prevention
and suppression making sure that people comply with the guidelines as OSHA can
hold them accountable if they ignored them.
References
Jeffress, C. (1999). OSHA’s core mission is to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for every working man and woman in the nation. | Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Osha.gov. Retrieved 7 January 2017, from https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=98&p_table=TESTIMONIES
Vetter, R. (2016). Incorporated by Reference · IVES Training Group. Ivestraining.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017, from https://www.ivestraining.com/resource-center/articles-of-interest/articles/incorporated-by-reference/