The NFPA 72®: Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Fire Alarm Systems Online Training is a building block of the CFPE Learning Path and CFI-I Learning Path—a series of web-based training that can help you plot a successful journey to advanced certification.
Learn how to apply NFPA 72® requirements for inspection, testing, and maintenance to ensure dependable fire alarm and emergency systems.
Proper inspection, testing, and maintenance are critical to signaling system effectiveness. This course covers NFPA 72 requirements for inspecting, testing, and maintaining fire alarm and signaling systems. The lessons review general provisions in NFPA 72®, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code®,involving management of inspections, tests, and system impairments. The training also addresses personnel responsibilities and qualifications.
Learn how the requirements for acceptance, periodic inspections, and tests differ from one another. These differences result in specific qualification requirements for the persons doing the work. Most of the actual test methods for fire alarm equipment do not vary for new work versus periodic testing; however, some testing requirements for new work do not apply to existing systems.
In this training, you'll learn how to navigate NFPA 72 to locate specific requirements and frequencies for the testing and visual inspection of fire detection and alarm system components. Specific requirements for properly conducting smoke detector functional and sensitivity tests are covered in detail, as well as test methods for several other common types of initiating devices. Last but not least, you will gain insight into how some commonly employed test methods do not meet the requirements of NFPA 72.
Upon completion you should be able to:
- Define terms related to the inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm systems.
- Recognize general requirements for the inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm systems.
- Identify the purpose of inspections.
- Describe the requirements of acceptance inspections and periodic inspections.
- Identify the testing and maintenance requirements for fire alarm and signaling
Who Will Benefit:
Anyone whose job involves designing, reviewing, evaluating or installing fire alarm systems, including: designers, installers, electrical contractors, architects, project managers and AHJs.
Continuing Education Credit:
Complete this one-hour course and qualify for 0.1 CEU. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be prompted to download the CEU certificate directly from the course site.
Please verify applicability with your professional board or organization before registering.
Group Training:
For more information or to receive a price quote for NFPA group training, please call 877-336-3280 or e-mail: grouptraining@nfpa.org.