CAFAA IN-PERSON TRAINING
COURSE TITLE:
Fire Alarm Systems Testing and Inspections per NFPA 72-2025 and NFPA 4 -2021 (Integrated systems)
DATE:
Friday, May 16, 2025
LOCATION:
Brea Civic & Cultural Center - Conference Center
1 Civic Center Circle, Brea, CA 92821
*NOTE: Parking is underground*
SAGIV WEISS-ISHAI, P.E.
CA Licensed Fire Protection Engineer
27 yrs. experience in Fire Protection Engineering
Principal AHJ member – NFPA 72 Technical Committee SIG-PRO since 2012
AHJ Member national elevator safety Code ASME A17.1 – Emergency Operations & Hoistway Technical committees
NFPA 72 and ASME A17.1 Task Group member on Fire Service Access Elevators & Occupant Evacuation Elevators
AHJ Member – Calif. State Fire Alarm Code Advisory Committee
Chair of the elevator committee for the CA Existing Building Code
Served as Fire Code Official on the Calif State – Bldg. Fire & Other Code Advisory Committee to the Calif. Bldg. Stds. Commission
AHJ Member 2019-2020 CSFM Elevator Work Group to Changes in CBC Chapter 30 – Elevators
Past President – Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) of the Nevada-Northern CA Chapter
COURSE OUTLINE:
- Routine inspections and testing of fire alarm systems are crucial for ensuring they function correctly and protect lives and property, often mandated by local authorities and insurance companies. These checks typically include visual inspections, functional tests, and testing of components like detectors, control panels, and notification devices.
- NFPA 72-2025 Chapter 14 outlines the requirements for fire alarm system inspection, testing, and maintenance, including notification procedures and schedules for various components of fire alarm systems, encompassing initial acceptance testing, routine inspections, and reacceptance testing.
- The 2025 California Fire Code (CFC) which will become effective in CA on January 1st, 2026, has adopted NFPA 4 - 2021 Edition: "Standard for Integrated Fire Protection and Life Safety System Testing,". NFPA 4 focuses on verifying the interoperability and coordinated performance of interconnected fire protection and life safety systems, ensuring they function as designed during an emergency.
- Integrated testing includes the interface between the fire alarm system and other life-safety and fire protection systems in the building, such as sprinkler, fire pump and other suppression systems, smoke control, elevator recall & shunt, ERRCS, ERCES and many other systems.
- This training will discuss and clarify the associated and specific requirements of NFPA 72-2025 Chapter 14 and NFPA 4-2021 regarding fire Alarm and signaling systems testing, Inspections and maintenance, who is responsible for what, which sequence and features are required to be tested and the relationship between the AHJs, Inspectors and contractors and the required responsibilities of each trade.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Five and one-quarter (5.25) Continuing Education Hours (CEH) will be awarded to students on completion of training. The CEHs can be converted to Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the WBFAA. There is no cost for conversion if you are a WBFAA member. Cost may apply to non-members.
Our goal for in-person training is to be able to offer at least one in-person training session, in each region, per topic. And offer multiple topics throughout 2025.
FPE and CAFAA will be developing new course material to meet the ever-changing needs of our membership, for a fresh, high-quality, California-centric curriculum.
Sagiv Weiss-Ishai, P.E. (Calif. Licensed Fire Protection Engineer) is the principal trainer for FPE and will be the instructor.
*Disclaimer: As the course trainer, Mr. Weiss-Ishai will not be representing the SFFD policies or procedures in his course delivery. *
WHO CAN BENEFIT BY ATTENDING THE CLASS:
Fire Alarm Systems Personnel: Designers, Installers, Technicians, Service personnel, Vendors, Engineers.
Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and Code Officials Personnel: Fire, Building, Elevator, Electrical, Code Enforcers and Permit Plans Reviewers.
Professionals: Architects, Electrical and Fire Protection Engineers.
Fire Service Personnel: Fire Plan Review Inspectors, Fire Field Inspectors.
MATERIALS PROVIDED:
- Each student will receive a HARD copy booklet (2-slide per page format, double-sided) at the training site. No electronic files will be sent.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
7:30am - 8:00am Continental breakfast
8:00am - 9:45am Training and Q&A
9:45am - 10:00am Break
10:00am - 12:00pm Training and Q&A
12:00pm - 12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm - 1:45pm Training and Q&A
1:45pm - 2:00pm open Q&A session on any class related topic
ENROLLMENT FEES
$199 for California FPOs/AHJs
$299 for employees of a CAFAA member company
$399 for non-CAFAA member attendees
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