Revised for clarity and to help standardize the use of symbols, the 2018 edition of NFPA 170: Standard for Fire Safety and Emergency Symbols presents uniform symbols used for fire safety, emergency, and associated hazards.
NFPA 170 provides designers, engineers, architects, and emergency planners with key information -- including the new symbol for tornado.
The Standard provides symbology for emergency management mapping, and emergency evacuation diagrams and plans. This edition includes:
Use NFPA 170 to improve communication between building occupants, designers, installers, and first responders.
This edition is essential for the fire service, as well as for architectural and engineering drawings, insurance diagrams, fire fighting operations, and pre-incident planning sketches. Annexes provide explanatory material and symbols for life safety planning.