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ES&H
Manual Fire Protection Supplement |
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Chapter 2: Fire Protection Design |
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1.0
Purpose
This document outlines the
considerations that need to be made to incorporate contemporary fire-protection
standards, while accommodating the unique features of the accelerator,
experimental apparatus, and a variety of associated workplace environments at
Jefferson Lab.
2.0
Scope
This document describes personnel
responsibilities, building fire-safety features, construction practices, fire
protection systems selection, system acceptance, fire protection water supply,
existing facilities, hazard prioritizations and mitigation, fire damage, actual
loss determination, and loss reporting.
New facilities or major renovation
of existing facilities requires a review of any existing fire-protection
systems and features within the affected area by Facilities Management. The design-review process includes reviews by
the Fire
Marshal early in the design phase. These include reviews at the 30-, 60-,
and 90‑percent design phase. These reviews may be conducted on a less
frequent basis, depending upon the size of the design project. Facilities
Management maintains all relevant files for each project, including design
criteria and rationale. Design reviews are also done for projects performed by
in-house staff, with peer reviews performed for each design.
Additional details regarding the design of new facilities are found in ES&H Manual
Chapter 3110 Facility Design and Modification Review.
Equivalent means of Fire Protection
and Exemption from prescriptive code requirements and DOE Orders are sometime
warranted. This document is used to identify existing equivalencies and
exemptions granted by DOE.
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Responsibilities
3.1
Fire Marshal
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Perform
building design evaluations.
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Reviews
and approves proposed projects and designs at multiple stages in the design
process for compliance with fire protection code requirements and site-specific
fire protection requirements.
3.2
Supervisors, Building Managers
and Area Work Coordinators
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Monitor the activities of personnel
within affected areas.
· Prevent any alteration to building construction features not coordinated with Facilities Management.
3.3
ES&H Professionals
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Ensure that space use is consistent with the fire
safety design.
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Provide guidance to line management
on limitations of potential space use.
· Participate as required in the planning processes for renovation and new construction.
3.4
Facilities Management Staff
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Ensure fire
protection water supply is adequate for design.
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Incorporate all applicable codes
standard requirements, equivalencies and exemptions into designs for new
construction and renovation projects.
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Fire-Safety Design
Considerations
4.1
Building Design Evaluation
Building designs are evaluated for
compliance with the traditional construction codes and standards along with
several additional considerations.
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International Code Council Inc.
International Building Codes.
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Site-specific requirements for
detection, suppression, life safety, and underground-water distribution
described in Fire
Protection Supplement Chapter 1 Site-Specific Requirements.
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Building features that provide for
Highly Protected Risk status or the best-protected class of industrial risks.
This status is achieved through incorporation of design features contained in FM
Global Property Loss Prevention Data Sheets.
· DOE-STD-1066-2016, Fire Protection
4.2
Fire Protection Water Supply
The City of Newport News provides
water for the Jefferson Lab site. There are three water-supply meter vaults to
the site:
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One 4-inch water meter is on Hogan
Drive (north of the facility).
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One 8-inch water meter is on
Jefferson Avenue (west of the facility).
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One 12-inch water meter is on Canon
Boulevard (southeast of the facility).
4.2.1
With
the exception of the Support Services (SSC) Building area, the site hydrant and
fire suppression systems are continuously connected to the Canon Boulevard and
Jefferson Avenue underground 24-inch concrete city mains. This supply
redundancy provides a high level of confidence in a continuous water supply for
most of the site. The SSC area is served by the separate municipal water
supply.
4.3
Equivalencies and Exemptions
4.3.1
Equivalency - Common Path of Travel for Injector
Area, Approved April 8, 1998 to exceed the maximum 100ft distance for
common path of travel [in an area protected by automatic sprinkler systems] by
15ft for the injector area of the tunnel enclosure.
4.3.2
Equivalency - Manual Pull Stations, Beam
Enclosure, Approval letter from Barbara Morgan to Bill Rust dated April 21, 1995,
permission to deviate from stations @ 200 foot intervals to stations @ 600 foot
intervals.
4.3.3
Equivalency - Fire Sprinkler Protection for
Experimental Halls A, B, C
Approval Letter: September 27,
2010.
Compensatory Action
Required:
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Implement a comprehensive and
rigorous Combustible Control Program - On February 8, 2011, Chapter 11: Combustible Loading
supplement was created to develop a method to actively control the accumulation
of transient combustible material in the Jefferson Lab experimental Hall’s and
the Accelerator Tunnel. Weekly inspections are conducted by the FPE and
documented electronically as well as hard copy.
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Provide further evaluation of the
need for additional suppression at the ceiling level in Hall B - Currently in the process of
evaluating what type of system best suites Hall-B’s needs in conjunction with
the upcoming experiment.3.
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Install flammable gas detectors at
locations where flammable gases are used - Currently in the process of evaluating the most
up-to-date VESDA gas detection equipment to install in line of the existing
VESDA piping.
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Maintain the existing active and
passive fire protection features. Specifically fire barriers, fire doors,
sprinkler systems, VESDA, fire alarm and smoke removal systems - Inspections are conducted per NFPA
throughout the Jefferson Lab site by outside contractors.
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Continue to have a qualified fire
protection engineer serve on the experimental planning committee - Both the Fire Protection Program
Manager and the Fire Marshal review all operational safety procedures and serve
on the experimental planning committee.
4.3.4
Equivalency - Request (NFPA 101) Equivalency,
Accelerator Tunnel Ramps, Approval letter February 4, 2008.
Compensatory Action
Required:
1.
The proposed design and facility
operations shall include the following additional safety controls:
Engineered
Controls:
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Fire Detection system for early
warning.
VESDA has been installed in the
tunnel extension.
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Fire Suppression System.
Dry sprinkler system has been
installed throughout the tunnel extension.
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Non-slip surface on the ramp.
Concrete floor was left in rough
surface condition.
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Lifting eyes in the ceiling above
the ramp to aid in material handling along ramp.
Lifting eyes have been installed
throughout tunnel extension.
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Emergency Lighting.
Emergency lighting has been
installed per NFPA requirements.
Administrative
Controls:
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Restricted access to able- bodied
personnel.
CANS will be installed for access
control.
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Posted exit signs.
Exit signs are installed throughout
the tunnel per NFPA.
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Personnel training.
SAF-113KD (Hall-D Conduct of
Operations) training incorporates Hall-D and the tunnel extension into its
program.
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Task hazard analyses of activities
in the tunnel extension.
Task hazard analyses are conducted
and approved before work moves forward in the tunnel.
2.
A change in the facility operations
from the proposed scope of work voids the equivalency approval.
No plans at the present time to
alter the scope of work.
3.
A change in the hazard
classification within the specific area voids the equivalency.
No changes in the hazard
classification in the specific area anticipated.
4.
Future revisions of the facility
FHA’s are to maintain a copy of the TJSO equivalency approval documentation and
supporting JSA information within an attachment.
All FHA’s from this point forward
will have equivalency documentation incorporated into the FHA package.
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References
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National Fire Protection Association
(NFPA) Codes and Standards, Current Editions
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International Building Codes
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DOE-STD-1066-2016,
Fire Protection
6.0
Revision
Summary
Periodic Review – 01/03/19 – No changes
per TPOC
Revision
0.3 – 06/02/16 – Periodic Review; removed reference to chapter that no longer exists
(Chapter 6730 Water Quality Management)
Revision
0.2 – 09/17/13 – Added
equivalencies paragraphs 4.3.1, 4.3.2; updated links
Revision
0.1 – 11/21/11 – Added
“Equivalencies and Exemptions” Considerations
Revision 0.0 – 09/28/09 – Initial Content
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