Document NO.:RD-517E-39-001
Version: D 2017.04.28
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incapable of safely evacuating the area unassisted.
What to do when the alarm sounds:
1. Alert small children in the home to quickly follow the
family escape plan.
2. Leave immediately by your escape plan. Every second
counts, so don’t waste time getting dressed or picking up
valuables.
3. In leaving, don’t open any inside door without first feeling
its surface. If hot, or if you see smoke seeping through
cracks, don’t open that door! Instead, use your alternate
exit. If the inside of the door is cool, place your shoulder
against it, open it slightly and be ready to slam it shut if
heat and smoke rush in.
4. Stay close to the floor if the air is smoky. Breathe
shallowly through a cloth, wet if possible.
5. Once outside, go to your selected meeting place and make
sure everyone is there.
6. Call the fire department from your neighbor’s home -not
from yours!
7. Don’t return to your home until the fire officials say that it
is all right to do so.
Note:
These guidelines will assist you in the event of a fire,
however, to reduce the chance that fires will start, practice
fire safety rules and prevent hazardous situations.
Recommended Locations for Alarms:
Locate the first alarm in the immediate area of the
bedrooms. Try to monitor the exit path as the bedrooms are
usually farthest from the exit. If more than one sleeping
area exists, locate additional alarms in each sleeping area.
Locate additional alarms to monitor any stairway as
stairways act like chimneys for smoke and heat.
Locate at least one alarm on every floor level.
Locate an alarm in every bedroom.
Locate an alarm in every room where electrical appliances
are operated (i.e. portable heaters or humidifiers).
Locate an alarm in every room where someone sleeps with
the door closed. The closed door may prevent an alarm not
located in that room from waking the sleeper.
Smoke, heat, and combustion products rise to the ceiling
and spread horizontally. Mounting the smoke alarm on the
ceiling in the center of the room places it closest to all
points in the room. Ceiling mounting is preferred in
ordinary residential construction.
When mounting an alarm on the ceiling, locate it at a
minimum of 12" (30cm) from the side wall (Refer to
Diagram 5).
Diagram 5
Put smoke alarm at both ends of a bedroom hallway or
large room if the hallway or room is more than 9.1 m (30 ft)
long.
Smoke alarms in rooms with ceiling slopes greater than 1m
in 8 m horizontally shall be located on the high side of the
room. Install a smoke alarms on sloped, peaked or cathedral
ceilings between 500mm and 1500mm from the highest
point of the ceiling. (See Diagram 6).
Diagram 6
• For single floor plan and multiple floor plan, please refer to
diagram 7.
