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Apply industry best practices for safety in animal housing facilities with the 2009 NFPA 150!

Improve health and welfare of animals while protecting human life and property with the 2009 NFPA 150: Standard on Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities. This Standard covers all types of animal housing facilities where animals are kept for any purpose, including barns, stable, kennels, animal shelters, veterinary facilities, zoos, laboratories, and racetracks. The Standard is divided into three major sections:

• Section 1 (Chapters 1-3) contains administrative requirements
• Section 2 (Chapters 4-10) provides general requirements for all facilities housing animals
• Section 3 (Chapters 11-13) includes specific requirements focused on the class of the facility

Updated to respond to industry developments and trends, changes in the 2009 NFPA 150 include:

• Clarifications regarding the use of Quick Response Sprinklers in areas allowed by NFPA 13
• Recognition of various type of smoke control/management systems and allows numerous detection options for initiating the operation of the system
• New options to utilize different fire test protocols to determine flame spread and fire behavior characteristics of interior finish materials.