Скачать или смотреть The Importance of Mass Notification Systems Meeting Codes and Standards

When it comes to preparing a risk assessment for your campus or facility, whose responsibility is it to utilize best practices to ensure life-safety? What if the product you think is safe does not meet proper fire, electrical or other life safety standards? What if it lacks essential elements for performance to ensure it works during an active shooter attack, severe weather event or some other emergency?

Having a product-agnostic, “governing” body like NFPA or IBC that works with the UL standards committees to set the bar for safety requirements allows stakeholders to have a higher degree of trust that their mass notification system (MNS) has been tested to perform and execute to a life safety standard.

Meeting codes and standards should be a level of entry for all MNS manufacturers. When manufacturers do this, they ensure that campuses ultimately invest in on-premises and wide area speakers and distributed recipient mass notification system (DRMNS) solutions that work and perform properly. Further, it is important that a MNS system be inspected according to a life safety standard.

Compliance should never be optional or “value engineered” out of the project. Choosing products and solutions that meet codes and standards, such as NFPA 72, International Building Code (IBC/IFC) and the UL 2572 standard, is one way to ensure best practices and better outcomes. www.mercurynotifications.com