User Manual

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Content
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................4
1.2 Scope .....................................................................................................................................................................5
1.3 Challenges .............................................................................................................................................................5
2 Fire Safety .................................................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Fire damage costs ...............................................................................................................................................6
2.2 Regulations .........................................................................................................................................................7
2.3 Fire safety management ......................................................................................................................................9
2.4 Fire protection measure ....................................................................................................................................10
2.5 Organization and Management .........................................................................................................................12
2.6 Particular challenges .........................................................................................................................................13
3 Fire detection ..........................................................................................................................................................14
3.1 Basic considerations ..........................................................................................................................................14
3.2 Fire detection in education facilities ..................................................................................................................15
4 Alarming, smoke control and evacuation .................................................................................................................24
4.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................24
4.2 Alarming ...........................................................................................................................................................24
4.3 Smoke control ...................................................................................................................................................26
4.4 Evacuation ........................................................................................................................................................27
5 Extinguishing ..........................................................................................................................................................30
5.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................30
5.2 Principles ..........................................................................................................................................................30
5.3 Extinguishing systems .......................................................................................................................................30
5.4 Manual extinguishing infrastructure ..................................................................................................................31
5.5 Areas requiring special attention .......................................................................................................................32
6 System integration and management ......................................................................................................................34
6.1 What are the needs? ..........................................................................................................................................34
6.2 Centralized monitoring......................................................................................................................................34
6.3 Networks and integration ..................................................................................................................................35
7 Appendix: Schools ...................................................................................................................................................37
7.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................37
7.2 Specific issues ...................................................................................................................................................37
8 References ...............................................................................................................................................................39
9 Share the experience ...............................................................................................................................................40