Be prepared to confidently determine equivalencies and evaluate levels of safety.
NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, provides alternative approaches to life safety. This guide is essential for facility managers, inspectors, and code enforcers, and the methods contained in this guide can be used to help determine equivalency where used as part of the technical documentation submitted to the authority having jurisdiction.
NFPA 101A is intended to be used alongside NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, to facilitate equivalency requests using numerically based fire safety evaluation systems (FSESs). Each chapter presents a system for a different occupancy. Occupancies addressed include the following:
- Health care
- Residential board and care
- Detention and correctional
- Business
- Educational
The 2025 edition includes: changes to several worksheets for the various fire safety evaluation systems to ensure equivalency is measured accurately against the requirements of the 2024 edition of NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®.
