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Should NFPA 730 go from guide to code?

November 28, 2012Tess Nacelewicz

SILVER SPRING, Md.—A proposal to change NFPA 730, the National Fire Protection Association standard governing security systems, from a best-practices recommendation to a code is generating concerns from the security industry.The controversy is about whether NFPA 730 should be changed from a guide to a code, giving it the force of law if municipalities adopt that code, according to Joe Gittens, director of standards for the Security Industry Association. “A guideline can be a standard,...

Joe Gittens, Richard Roux