Gravenhurst Volunteer Fire Department

If you answer YES to any of the following questions, you require a fire safety plan.

Do you have a business or property where;

1. People assemble, such as a restaurant or a meeting hall?

2. People are provided care or detained such as a nursing home?

3. People live, and there are more than ten people with sleeping accommodation?

4. There is office space and the total occupant load exceeds 300? (Occupant load calculation - m² divided by 9.3m²/person)

5. People shop and the total occupant load exceeds 300? (Occupant load calculation – m² divided by 3.70m²/person)

6. It is a high hazard industrial occupancy and the occupant load exceeds 25? - High hazard examples: spray painting operations, chemical manufacturing or processing etc. (Occupant load calculation – varies depending upon use)

7. It is a medium hazard industrial occupancy with an occupant load more than 100? - Medium hazard examples: repair garages, woodworking factories, dry cleaning etc. (Occupant load calculation – varies depending upon use)

8. It is a low hazard industrial occupancy with an occupant load more 300? - Low hazard examples: storage garages, warehouses etc. (Occupant load calculation – varies depending upon use)

9. The building has more than four storeys including below grade levels?

10. The property is used as a storage or salvage yard?

11. More than 500 liters of flammable and combustible liquids are present?

12. More than 250 liters of Class I flammable and combustible liquids are present?

13. There is a laboratory?

14. It is a boarding, lodging or rooming house with sleeping accommodations for more than four persons?

15. It is a Home For Special care with sleeping accommodations for more than three and less than ten?

16. There are more than two dwelling units and they share common exit facilities and interior access, OR one is above the other with interior access, OR one is above the other and they share a common exit?