NFPA 909 Code for the Protection of Cultural Resource Properties - Museums, Libraries, and Places of Worship
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1.1 Scope.
1.1.1 This code describes principles and practices of protection for cultural resource properties (including, but not limited to, museums, libraries, and places of worship), their contents, and collections, against conditions or physical situations with the potential to cause damage or loss.
1.1.2 This code covers ongoing operations and rehabilitation and acknowledges the need to preserve culturally significant and character-defining building features and sensitive, often irreplaceable, collections and to provide continuity of operations.
1.1.3* Principles and practices for life safety in cultural resource properties are outside the scope of this code. Where this code includes provisions for maintaining means of egress and controlling occupant load, it is to facilitate the evacuation of items of cultural significance, allow access for damage limitation teams in an emergency, and prevent damage to collections through overcrowding or as an unintended consequence of an emergency evacuation.
1.1.4 Library and museum collections that are privately owned and not open to the public shall not be required to meet the requirements of this code.
Protect your community's most treasured facilities by following the latest fire safety and security guidelines in the 2010 NFPA 909.
NFPA 909 Code for the Protection of Cultural Resource Properties - Museums, Libraries, and Places of Worship describes principles and practices of fire safety for cultural resource properties (museums, libraries, and places of worship); their contents; and those who operate, use, or visit them, through a comprehensive fire protection program.
The 2010 edition is a complete revision that reflects the addition of security to the Committee’s scope and includes technical changes such as
· Expansion of the code's goals and objectives to include 'hazards other than fire
· New requirement for a vulnerability assessment
· New chapters on planning for protection, emergency operations, and security
· A new annex describing commonly used premises protection systems and equipment
Additional changes improve safety with
· Reorganization of requirements pertaining to construction, alteration, addition, and renovation projects into one chapter
· Addition of design and installation requirements to reduce the risk of corrosion damage in dry-pipe and preaction sprinkler systems
· New requirements for sprinkler protection inside some exhibit cases
· Annexes pertaining to renovation of historic structures and fire ratings of archaic materials have been deleted and are now part of NFPA 914 Code for Fire Protection of Historic Structures
NFPA 909 also covers ongoing operations and rehabilitation and acknowledges the need to preserve culturally significant and character-defining building features and sensitive, often irreplaceable, collections and to provide continuity of operations. (Softbound, 169 pp., 2010)
