Fire Safety Evaluation System

The Fire Safety Evaluation System (FSES) is a system used in the United States to evaluate the overall level of a building's fire safety. FSES applies to health care, prisons and jails, offices, laboratory buildings, and overnight accommodations in National Parks.^[1]

FSES values are provided in the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety.

A FSES evaluation defines the relative impact of a deficiency or proposed improvement to the building. It also provides a means of comparing the effectiveness of proposed improvements by producing a comparative baseline and readily shows the relative gain in fire safety for proposed improvements.^[2]

Fire sprinklers have an extensive impact on fire safety and are therefore allotted a high value in the FSES.

Sources

1. Nelson, Harold System for Fire Safety Evaluation of Health Care Facilities Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine
2. Huggins, Roland The Impact of Fire Sprinklers on Building Fire Safety^[usurped] Hospital Engineering and Facilities Management (2003)