Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
Safety reference plans are the drawings of a facility,
updated after each construction project to include the applicable items
required under this Section. These plans shall be updated to reflect all
additions, alterations, and other changes to these facilities that affect the
arrangement, use, rated capacity, student capacity, or other information
required to be shown. They shall serve as a means of indicating the
safety-related conditions of a facility, as an aid in developing emergency exit
plans, and in other circumstances where reference to overall layouts is
necessary.
a) Each local school board
shall maintain up-to-date safety reference plans for all facilities owned or
used by the district for any school purpose. Each set of safety reference plans
shall include:
1) A site plan meeting the
requirements of subsection (e);
2)
Schematic floor plans as described in subsection (f);
3) An attic plan meeting the requirements of
subsection (h), if required pursuant to subsection (g); and
4) Any additional drawings and/or schedules
that may be necessary to effectively describe the nature and operational
characteristics of the facility in question.
b) Safety reference plans shall be drawn to
scale, using a medium suitable for reproduction and revision. Each safety
reference plan and revision shall be titled, dated, signed, and certified by
the architect or engineer responsible for its preparation.
c) Two complete sets of safety reference
plans shall be provided for each facility, one to be kept by the board of
education in a safe place and one to be kept on the site to which it
applies.
d) Whenever safety
reference plans are completed or updated, they shall be submitted to the
regional superintendent for review and approval.
e) Each site plan shall be drawn to a scale
sufficient to show the required information clearly and legibly, and shall
include a legend. The site plan shall include the location and identification
of:
1) Highways, boulevards, avenues, or
streets bordering the site;
2) Each
building or other structure on the site;
3) Each building located on adjacent property
less than 75 feet away from a school building;
4) Public fire hydrants and municipal fire
alarm boxes adjacent to or on the site;
5) Utility supply services (water, gas,
electricity, etc.) leading into the site and into each building or other
structure, their size, and the location of shut-offs for each
service;
6) Primary walkways, fire
lanes, and bus loading and unloading zones;
7) Play areas and automobile parking areas,
and the surfacing material of each;
8) Landscaping or other materials or areas on
the site that might impede ingress or egress;
9) Fences and gates, and their respective
heights;
10) Elevation with respect
to sea level and location with respect to floodways and floodplains;
and
11) Unusual terrain.
f) Each schematic floor plan shall
be drawn for one floor of a building, to a scale sufficient to show the
required information clearly and legibly, and shall include a legend. Each
floor plan shall include the following information.
1) The identification of each fire area shown
on the plan, and a statement establishing the height in stories, construction
type, protection classification, and plan classification of each fire
area.
2) The elevation of each
floor level with respect to the floor level of the lowest street floor. The
street-floor plan shall show the difference in elevation between its floor
level and the grade level outside at each point of ingress-egress from the
building to a point 12 feet from the building line.
3) The location of all existing or proposed
partitions and walls, the identification of those partitions and walls required
to have a fire resistance rating, and the rating that is required.
4) The identification of each room and space
as to its occupancy and use.
5) The
designation of the rated population capacity and student enrollment capacity
for each floor and each occupied room or space on that floor.
6) The identification of the areas protected
or proposed to be protected by a sprinkler or fire detection system.
7) The location, arrangement, and width of
each stairway, ramp, fire-resistive passageway, fire escape, and slide escape
that serves as a required means of exit, and of each corridor, passageway,
primary egress aisle, or balcony that provides the required path of travel to
each of these exits.
8) The
location, direction of swing, width, type, and, where required, fire rating of
each door located in the path of travel to a required exit or serving as part
of a required exit.
9) The
locations of vertical openings and the existing or proposed protection for
them.
10) The existing or proposed
locations of fire alarm boxes, fire alarm horns and lights, exit lights,
emergency lighting, and fire alarm control panel.
11) The location of primary air distributing
or recirculating fans and designation of the areas served by each
one.
12) The location and
identification of fuel burning equipment (both permanent and
moveable).
13) On the basement
plan, or lowest street floor plan if no basement exists, the location and
height of service tunnels and under-floor crawl spaces along with the existing
or proposed method of separating these tunnels and spaces from adjacent
occupied spaces.
g) A
plan shall be included for each attic that:
1)
Is used, or can be used, for storage purposes; or
2) Is of combustible construction and used as
an open-plenum chamber; or
3) Has
an average clear height from the top of the ceiling below to the underside of
the roof joists or slab (if no joists exist) of more than 42 inches.
h) Each attic plan shall show:
1) The construction of the roof and
ceiling;
2) The slope of the roof
and other details as necessary to illustrate the size and arrangement of the
attic;
3) Access doors, ducts, and
other openings into the attic and existing or proposed protection for these
openings;
4) Existing or proposed
fire-stopping for subdividing attics; and
5) The existing or proposed automatic
protection (sprinkler or fire detection) and the area to be
protected.
