Victorian Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING REGULATIONS 2018 - SCHEDULE 8

Schedule 8—Essential safety measures

Regulation 214

Part 1—Building fire integrity

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Building elements required to satisfy prescribed fire-resistance levels
2	Materials and assemblies required to have fire hazard properties
3	Elements required to be non-combustible, provide fire protection, compartmentation or separation
4	Wall-wetting sprinklers (including doors and windows required in conjunction with wall-wetting sprinklers)
5	Fire doors (including sliding fire doors and their associated warning systems) and associated self‑closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms
6	Fire windows (including windows that are automatic or permanently fixed in the closed position)
7	Fire shutters
8	Solid core doors and associated self-closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms
9	Fire-protection at service penetrations through elements required to be fire-resisting with respect to integrity or insulation, or to have a resistance to the incipient spread of fire
10	Fire protection associated with construction joints, spaces and the like in and between building elements required to be fire-resisting with respect to integrity and insulation
11	Smoke doors and associated self-closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms
12	Proscenium walls (including proscenium curtains)

Part 2—Means of egress

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Paths of travel to exits
2	Discharge from exits (including paths of travel from open spaces to the public roads to which they are connected)
3	Exits (including fire-isolated stairways and ramps, non fire-isolated stairways and ramps, stair treads, balustrades and handrails associated with exits, and fire-isolated passageways)
4	Smoke lobbies to fire-isolated exits
5	Open access ramps or balconies for fire-isolated exits
6	Doors (other than fire or smoke doors) in a required exit, forming part of a required exit or in a path of travel to a required exit, and associated self-closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms

Part 3—Signs

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Exit signs (including direction signs)
2	Signs warning against the use of lifts in the event of fire
3	Warning signs on sliding fire doors and doors to non-required stairways, ramps and escalators
4	Signs, intercommunication systems, or alarm systems on doors of fire-isolated exits stating that re-entry to a storey is available
5	Signs alerting persons that the operation of doors must not be impaired
6	Signs required on doors, in alpine areas, alerting people that they open inwards
7	Fire order notices required in alpine areas

Part 4—Lighting

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Emergency Lighting

Part 5—Fire fighting services and equipment

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Fire hydrant system (including on-site pump set and fire-service booster connection)
2	Fire hose reel system
3	Sprinkler system
4	Portable fire extinguishers
5	Fire control centres (or rooms)

Part 6—Air-handling systems

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Smoke hazard management systems— (a)     automatic air pressurisation systems for fire‑isolated exits; (b)     zone smoke control system; (c)     automatic smoke exhaust system; (d)     automatic smoke-and-heat vents (including automatic vents for atriums); (e)     air-handling systems that do not form part of a smoke hazard management system and which may unduly contribute to the spread of smoke;
	(f)     miscellaneous air-handling systems serving more than one fire compartment to which Sections 5 and 6 of AS/NZS 1668.1 The use of ventilation and air conditioning in buildings—Part 1: Fire and smoke control in buildings, as in force or as re-issued or as published from time to time; (g)     other air-handling systems.
2	Car park mechanical ventilation system
3	Atrium smoke control system (see item 1(d) for smoke and heat vents)

Part 7—Automatic fire detection and alarm systems

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Smoke and heat alarm system
2	Smoke and heat detection system
3	Atrium fire detection and alarm system

Part 8—Occupant warning systems

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Sound system and intercom system for emergency purposes
2	Building occupant warning system

Part 9—Lifts

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Stretcher facilities in lifts
2	Emergency lifts
3	Passenger lift fire service controls

Part 10—Standby power supply system

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Standby power supply system

Part 11—Building clearance and fire appliances

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Open space around large isolated buildings
2	Vehicular access around large isolated buildings

Part 12—Mechanical ventilation and hot, warm and cooling water systems

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Safety measure
1	Mechanical ventilation systems incorporating cooling tower systems (other than a system serving only a single sole-occupancy unit in a Class 2 or 3 building or a Class 4 part of a building)
2	Mechanical ventilation systems incorporating hot and warm water systems (other than a system serving only a single sole-occupancy unit in a Class 2 or 3 building or a Class 4 part of a building)