Original NFPA 1200 technical committee discharged; two committees established
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards Council has disbanded the original NFPA 1200, Standard for Organization, Operation, Deployment, and Evaluation of Public Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service, project and discharged the technical committee (TC). The original project will be replaced by two projects. Each project will have its own TC. The newly established committee projects are as follows:
TC name: Career Fire and Emergency Service Organization and Deployment. This committee shall have primary responsibility for documents on the organization, operation, deployment, and evaluation of all-career public fire protection and emergency medical services.
TC name: Volunteer Fire and Emergency Service Organization and Deployment. It has primary responsibility for documents on the organization, operation, deployment, and evaluation of all-volunteer public fire protection and emergency medical services.
Combination career/volunteer fire departments have been excluded from both projects, at least for now, explains the NFPA, to avoid “the problems of definition and line-drawing that drew objection to other approaches.”
The NFPA 1200 TC voted to withdraw NFPA 1200 from the 1997 Fall revision cycle after it had received numerous public comments after a Report on Proposals for NFPA 1200 was published.
NFPA 1201, Standard for Developing Fire Protection Services for the Public, which had been assigned to the original NFPA 1200 TC, was reassigned to the TC on Fire Service Administrative Risk Management. NFPA 1201, the Standards Council notes, can be reconfirmed, revised, or incorporated all or in part into NFPA 1250, Recommended Practice in Fire Service Administrative Risk Management, or addressed by some other approach.
