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Schedule 8—Essential safety measures
Regulation 214
Part 1—Building fire integrity
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 1 | Emergency Lighting |