Apply the updated edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, to correctly determine an equivalency and avoid dangerous and costly errors.

Be prepared to confidently determine an equivalency -- or evaluate that it has an adequate level of life safety -- with the latest edition of NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety. Essential for facility managers, inspectors, and Code enforcers, NFPA 101A is used alongside NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, to facilitate an equivalency request using numerically-based fire safety evaluation systems (FSESs). Mandatory values in each FSES reflect the requirements in the 2018 edition of NFPA 101.

NFPA 101A provides FSESs for a wide range of occupancy types. Each chapter presents a different system independent of the others. Coverage includes the following occupancies:

• Health care
• Residential board and care
• Detention and correctional
• Business
• Educational

NFPA 101A also contains:

• Timesaving forms for recording building and life safety features
• Related worksheets
• Tools involved in a formalized method for presenting an equivalency request to the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ)

Use the 2019 edition of NFPA 101A to help ensure that equivalency is measured accurately against the requirements of the 2018 edition of NFPA 101.