By Dean Samet, CHS
In the July 2010 Environment of Care News article Ensuring Effective Fire Alarm and Automatic Sprinkler Systems, The Joint Commission (TJC) reintroduced a manual method of fire alarm transmission policy. This policy is meant to be applied when the four traditional methods of transmitting fire alarm signals to the local fire department cannot be achieved per the 2000 NFPA 101, Life Safety Code® (LSC), Section 9.6.4 Emergency Forces Notification, which in turn references the 1999 NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm Code®.
