Campus Fire Marshal

You are responsible for identifying control areas and/or lab suites for the buildings on your campus. This can be done via identifying fire-resistant rated construction from record drawings. Fire barriers used to separate control areas should be field verified for integrity.

RSS Chemicals 

Assumptions for each building: Within RSS Chemicals, default settings are: 

  • 2016 code year
  • Building is not equipped throughout with an automatic fire sprinkler system
  • each floor is a separate, single control area
  • B-occupancy
  • each floor is the first story above grade plane
  • Hazardous materials are not in approved storage

If all of the above are correct, no changes are needed to set up control areas.

Refer to RSS Chemicals & MAQ Tutorials for information on how to update these items :
•    Code year
•    Sprinkler coverage
•    Floor level relative to grade plane
•    Occupancy type (done separate per control area)
•    Creating control areas and assigning rooms to control area
•    Approved storage (per hazard category and physical state)