CHAPTER 9

FIRE SAFETY REPORT

9.1 PURPOSE

Fire safety report is to document the provision of fire protection and

life safety features in the building and/or plants/installations. This
report would serve as a useful reference to fire safety managers,
building owners, registered inspectors, the Relevant Authority and to
qualified persons appointed to carry out any subsequent additions
and alteration works. Where the nature of the additions and
alteration works would require the updating of the fire safety report,
the qualified person shall be responsible to submit revised and
updated report to the building owner/s and the Relevant Authority.

9.2 SUBMISSION OF REPORT ON FIRE PROTECTION & LIFE SAFETY FEATURES

9.2.1 Qualified Person should submit a report on fire protection and life
safety features when making BP submission for projects such as:-

(iii) large industrial buildings (gross floor area greater than 5000 sq
m); and

(iv) petroleum/chemical plants and installations;

(v) buildings exceeding 24m in habitable height where fire rated

drywalls are used for the construction of protected shafts for
staircases and/or lifts; and

(vi) buildings exceeding one storey using fire rated board

protection for structural steel.

9.3 CONTENTS OF THE REPORT

9.3.1 The write-up of the report on fire protection and life safety features
should include the following subjects. However, qualified person
could expand or modify the report to suit his presentation:-

A Project Description
B Fire Safety Design Concept
C Fire Engine Accessibility
D Means of Escape

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 E Structural Fire Precautions
F Control and Exhaust of Smoke and Toxic Fumes
G Fire Fighting Systems
H Fire Alarm System
I Emergency Power Supply
J Emergency Evacuation Lighting
K Emergency Voice Communication System
L Two-Way Emergency Communication System
M Emergency Lift Control
N Areas of Fire Risk
O Fire Scenario
P Fire Safety Management
Q Conclusion

9.4 BRIEF EXPLANATORY NOTES FOR OUTLINE REPORT ON FIRE

PROTECTION AND LIFE SAFETY FEATURES

A Project Description

A description of the project with brief outline of the facilities

provided. For industrial and petroleum/chemical plants and
installations, details of the following are to be provided:-

(i) A diagrammatic process flow chart with a brief

description of the process/activities that will be carried
out;

(ii) The raw materials to be used;

(iii) The nature of the products; and

(iv) All hazardous chemicals, flammable liquids, solvents etc

that will be handled/stored.

B Fire Safety Design Concept

This would include the safety design concept incorporated in

the project such as the application of design and provision of
areas of refuge, smoke barriers, additional compartment
walls/ doors in sectionalizing the large atrium floors etc and
other added fire safety features provided over and above
the intent of the Code of Practice for Fire Precautions in
Buildings 2002.

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C Fire Engine Accessibility

This would briefly outline the driveways, which are paved to

withstand the load of fire engines, to be provided.

D Means of Escape

This would include the description of the escape routes that

would be taken by occupants in the building in a fire
scenario, besides the provision of the number, type and
location of staircases, etc as outlined under Chapter 2 of the
Code of Practice for Fire Precautions in Buildings 2002.

E Structural Fire Precautions

This would outline the fire resistance rating and the type of
structural protection to elements of structures, compartment
walls/floors, types and methods of fire stoppings to ducts,
cavity and curtain walling construction, and types and rating
of all fire doors.

F Control and Exhaust of Smoke and Toxic Fumes

This would include the description of the type of system to be

provided to car parks, atrium, staircases and lobbies, air-
conditioning units etc.

G Fire Fighting System

This would include the active protection system such as

portable fire extinguishers, hose reels, dry/wet rising mains,
sprinkler system, gas flooding system, fixed/portable water
monitors, fixed water spray, drenchers etc.

H Fire Alarm System

This would include the provision of passive fire protection

system such as automatic fire detection systems (smoke or
heat type), 'break the glass' fire alarm system. Besides naming
the type of automatic system, the description should also
include where the detectors would be generally located in
fire risk areas/rooms such as lift motor rooms, electrical switch
rooms, MDF, IDF and PABX rooms electrical ducts and
enclosed elevator shafts, and how, when any of the systems is
activated, the public, the people in the Fire Control Room
and the nearest fire station or approved fire alarm monitoring
company are alerted.

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I Emergency Power Supply

This would include the description of how the emergency

power system operates in times of loss of normal electric
power supply to any part of the building and the areas or
systems that will be designed to receive emergency power.

J Emergency Evacuation Lighting

This would include the description of the system designed in

accordance with SS CP 19 - Code of Practice for the
Installation & Maintenance of Emergency Evacuation Lighting
in Power Supply Systems in Buildings, and the location of exit
signs etc and the types of battery system, and designed time
for the switchover to emergency lighting system from the time
the normal power supply is cut off.

K Emergency Voice Communication System

This would involve the description of the provision of the one-

way zoned and electrically monitored emergency paging
system to critical areas such as lobbies, corridors, exit
stairways, toilets, restaurant, shop and offices, M&E plant
rooms. The emergency public address system which
generally complies with SS CP 25 would include
communication between Fire Command Centre and all parts
of the building through electrical loudspeakers.

L Two-Way Emergency Communication System

This would describe the operation of the 2-way zoned and

coded voice communication system, which is electrically
supervised from the central control located in the Fire
Command Centre including the provision of slave telephones
to critical areas such as:

(i) every fire fighting lobby including 1st storey;

(ii) all fire fighting related mechanical equipment rooms

inclusive of sprinkler pump room, wet rising main pump
room, hose reel pump room etc;

(iii) all rooms housing smoke control equipment;

(iv) all lift machine rooms;

(v) any other locations as may be required by the Relevant

Authority.

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M Emergency Lift Control

This would describe the function of the Emergency Lift Control

conforming to the requirements under SS CP 2 – Code of
Practice for Installation, Operation & Maintenance of Electric
Passenger & Goods Lifts. The description of the emergency lift
control would also include the sequence of events in case of:

(i) power failure;

(ii) fire emergency; and

(iii) both power failure and fire emergency.

N Areas of Fire Risk

This would briefly describe the areas of fire risk such as AC

plant room, generator room, oil tank room etc and the type
of fire protection/detection system proposed.

O Fire Scenario

Under this subject, the qualified person would have to assume

the outbreak of a fire in one of the critical floors or areas and
describe the sequence of operation of the fire protection and
life safety design features.

P Fire Safety Management

This would include a brief description of the general

management of the fire protection and life safety features.

Q Conclusion

This would include the summing up of the outline concepts

and systems that have been designed for the project.