NFPA Journal - May/June 2019 - 21

Dispatches Briefs
NFPA 3000
events at C&E

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It's been just over
a year since NFPA
released its groundbreaking standard on
responding to active
shooter and other
hostile events, NFPA
3000™ (PS), Standard for an Active
Shooter/Hostile Event
Response (ASHER)
Program. Since then,
the standard has
been the subject
of countless news
articles and media
inquiries to NFPA. Its
influence will continue to grow with a
"conference within
a conference" on
NFPA 3000 planned
to take place along-

side the 2019 NFPA
Conference & Expo in
San Antonio, Texas,
in June.
The daylong
event, scheduled
for June 18, will feature a block of free,
informative sessions
from 8 a.m. to noon.
A block of more
interactive sessions
is scheduled for the
afternoon for $250
per person.
"Safety is something we all say we
want-but when it
comes down to the
realities of what it
takes to keep people
safe, we often turn
away because it's
uncomfortable,
expensive, or may
cause us to get
into arguments,"
said Michele Gay,
cofounder of Safe

and Sound Schools, a
national school safety
resource center
founded by parents
who lost children
in the 2012 Sandy
Hook Elementary
School shooting
in Newtown, Connecticut. "We need
community leaders
to work together, and
our policymakers to
champion, endorse,
and support collaboration." Gay, who lost
her youngest daughter at Sandy Hook,
will deliver remarks
during the NFPA
3000 events at C&E.
Visit nfpa.org/
activeshootersessions to register for
these events. More

"Over the last
century, NFPA has
produced more than
100 codes and standards for the benefit
of the responder community," said Chris
Dubay, vice president
of engineering at
NFPA. "As new threats
and hazards emerged,
our standards
committees came
together to address
different challenges
and opportunities.
Now is the time to
take that wealth of
knowledge and combine it in a way that is
relevant and accessible for responders
today. This undertaking blends the critical
information that

information about
C&E in general is
available at nfpa.org/
conference, and to
read the May/June
2018 NFPA Journal
cover story on the
development of NFPA
3000, go to nfpa.org/
writinghistory.

responders need to
know to stay safe and
delivers it in a format
that is more complete
and convenient."
The decision was
also made after
responders and
technical committee
members voiced concerns in recent years
over conflicting information within NFPA's
ERRS standards, a
lack of knowledge
about what different
technical committees
are working on, and
the sheer number of
standards preventing
technical committee members from
serving on all of the
committees involved
in matters they're
interested in.
More information
on this decision is
available under the

NFPA to
consolidate over
100 documents

In April, the NFPA
Standards Council
approved a plan
that will lead to the
consolidation of 114
current NFPA documents relating to
emergency response
and responder
safety (ERRS) into
38. The project will
begin in January
2020 and last five
years.

Event celebrates
the effectiveness
of home fire
sprinklers

"news releases"
section at nfpa.org/
pressroom.

Wang tapped
as C&E keynote
speaker

Tricia Wang, who
describes herself
as a "global tech
ethnographer," will
deliver the keynote
speech at this year's
NFPA Conference &
Expo (C&E).
"I live at the intersection of data,
design, and digital,"
Wang says on triciawang.com. "My life's
work is advancing
how organizations
use technology to
serve people. I love
helping organizations
uncover how their
bias toward the quantifiable comes at the
expense of profits
and people, and even
more importantly,
how to fix it."
In 2016, Wang
gave a TED Talk
titled "The Human
Insights Missing
from Big Data," in
which she detailed
the wrong decisions
companies can make
from interpreting
data without considering the human
elements behind it.
Big data earned its
reputation for success by quantifying
contained systems,
such as electrical
grids or genetic
code, but when
applied to more
dynamic systems
that involve humans,
"forces are complex
and unpredictable
and these are things
we don't know how
to model so well,"
Wang says. To watch
her full 15-minute
presentation, go to
ted.com/talks and
search for "Tricia
Wang."
This year's C&E
will be held in San
Antonio, Texas, June
17-20. For information visit nfpa.org/
conference.

This year's Home
Fire Sprinkler Week™
will be held May
19-25. Led by the Fire
Sprinkler Initiative®, a
project of NFPA, and
the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition® (HFSC),
the event tasks safety
advocates across the
country with hosting
events to promote the
life- and propertysaving power of home
fire sprinklers.
The goal of Home
Fire Sprinkler Week
is to have these
events occur in all
50 states within the
one week. Events are
also expected to take
place in Canada and
the United Kingdom.
"The alarming
number of home fire
deaths and injuries
each year should
be on the radar of
every decision maker
and member of the
media," said Lorraine
Carli, vice president
of Outreach and
Advocacy at NFPA
and president of
HFSC. NFPA data
shows that home
fires kill an average
of seven people a
day in the United
States, and the risk
of dying in a home
fire drops by about
85 percent when
sprinklers are present and working.
"Through these
events, we hope to
illuminate the fire
problem and its
solution on a national
scale," Carli said. "Fire
sprinklers have been
a US model building
code requirement
since 2009, yet challenges to its adoption
still exist. Taking action
collectively will send
a powerful message
that fire sprinklers are
widely accepted and
must be embraced in
every state."
For more information, go to nfpa.org/
firesprinklerweek.

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