NFPA 1452-2020 PDF Download

NFPA 1452-2020 is a comprehensive guide designed to assist fire department training officers and related professionals in training fire service personnel to conduct community risk reduction (CRR) for residential occupancies. The standard emphasizes the importance of locally developed risk reduction programs in ensuring community-wide fire and life safety.

The scope of NFPA 1452-2020 covers various types of residential occupancies, including single-family homes, multifamily residential buildings, apartments, townhouses, condominiums, and manufactured housing. It provides general principles to be applied in conducting home safety surveys in both rural and urban communities as part of the CRR process.

The 2020 edition of NFPA 1452 incorporates the latest information on designing and implementing CRR programs for residential occupancies. It has been reorganized with revised and expanded content to align with industry practices and developments. Notable changes include concise chapter formatting, inclusion of emerging issues and technologies related to residential hazards, revised terminology for consistency with related standards, and an expanded annex clarifying that the guide can be used by any organization conducting CRR programs.