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Take the fast track to compliance! The 2012 NFPA 101® Handbook puts practical answers to Code questions at your fingertips so you're ready to apply requirements correctly.

The decisions you make on the job affect lives. That’s why when a new Life Safety Code® edition comes out, there’s no room for error and no time to lose. You need to get up-to-speed fast so you can hit the ground running, comply right the first time, and avoid costly mistakes, violations, and job delays. Your best source for the knowledge you need to master new requirements is the 2012 NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook.

Written by leading life safety authorities, this essential full-color NFPA 101 companion provides total compliance support with:

• Code text for new and existing buildings presented side-by-side for easy comparison -- this feature alone makes the Handbook a must!
• The full 2012 Life Safety Code text for easy access
• Expert commentary explains the reasoning and intent behind provisions and provide hands-on examples of how to apply rules, including new and revised provisions affecting health care occupancies, high-rise buildings, CO detection and alarms, and elevator use for occupant evacuation.
• More visuals than ever before! 300 photos and 400 charts, tables, illustrations, and diagrams -- not found in the Code -- all in full color for better visual clarification of NFPA 101 provisions
• Vertical rules alert you to Code additions and bullets signal deletions, so it’s easy to see what’s different in this edition.
• Matrix comparing the 2009 and 2012 NFPA 101 provides an overview of technical/substantive changes at-a-glance.

Life safety depends on you. Shorten the learning curve on the new Code and save lives.

Whether you're an architect, designer, contractor, engineer, AHJ, or inspector, you can depend on the 2012 Life Safety Code Handbook to make sure requirements are applied properly to protect building occupants

The following editions for this book are also available...

Format	Year	Publisher	Type	Title				Annual Price
	2009	NFPA	Handbook	NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook				$429.66	Buy
	2015	NFPA	Handbook	NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook				$429.66	Buy
	2018	NFPA	Handbook	NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook				$429.66	Buy

This book also exists in the following packages...

Year	Publisher	Title		Annual Price
VAR	NFPA	NFPA NFC Package with all NFPA Standards & NFPA Handbooks	[+]	$2,789.33	Buy
2006	NFPA	NFPA 1: Uniform Fire Code
2007	NFPA	NFPA 10: Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers
2002	NFPA	NFPA 10: Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers
1998	NFPA	NFPA 10: Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers
2002	NFPA	NFPA 11: Standard for Low-, Medium-, and High-Expansion Foam
1998	NFPA	NFPA 11: Standard for Low-Expansion Foam
2005	NFPA	NFPA 11: Standard for Low-, Medium-, and High-Expansion Foam
1999	NFPA	NFPA 11A: Standard for Medium- and High-Expansion Foam Systems
2000	NFPA	NFPA 12: Standard on Carbon Dioxide Extinguishing Systems
2008	NFPA	NFPA 12: Standard on Carbon Dioxide Extinguishing Systems
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About NFPA

The mission of the international nonprofit NFPA, established in 1896, is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.

The world's leading advocate of fire prevention and an authoritative source on public safety, NFPA develops, publishes, and disseminates more than 300 consensus codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks.

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