Prevention

The Fire Safety Plan is required to be prepared, approved and implemented in buildings containing:

• Assembly occupancy
• Care, care and treatment or detention occupancy
• Residential occupancy where occupant load exceeds 10 persons
• A retirement home
• Business and personal services occupancy where occupant load exceeds 300 persons
• Mercantile occupancy (retail) where occupant load exceeds 300 persons
• High hazard industrial occupancy where occupancy load exceeds 25 persons
• Medium hazard industrial occupancy where occupancy load exceeds 100 persons
• Low hazard industrial occupancy where occupancy load exceeds 300 persons

The Fire Safety Plan is also required for buildings and premises:

• Containing 4 storeys or more, counting storeys below grade
• Outdoor tire storage facilities
• Buildings and open areas where quantities of flammable and combustible liquids exceed 500L
• Laboratories where flammable and combustible liquids are used
• Hazardous extraction operations
• Boarding, Lodging and Rooming houses
• Building used as a convalescent home or children’s custodial homes providing sleeping accommodation for more than 3 persons
• Recreational camps regulated under Health Protection and Promotion Act
• Supported group living residences and intensive support residences regulated under the Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008