Receipt Requirements
Documents required during the examination
Architectural detection:
- Engineering plans for the facility stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
- In the event that sealed plans are not available and their presence is required during the inspection, executive plans of the facility are requested.
Receipt firefighting systems:
- Confirm the presence of the person concerned and the representatives of the implementing company. This company must be accredited in its field of work by the Prevention and Self-Protection Department.
- The company executing the firefighting systems work, represented by its representatives on site, is responsible for providing the following documents upon inspection:
- Design schemes and hydraulic calculations approved by Civil Defense.
- All catalogs and documents approving materials used in fire extinguishing systems.
- Performance charts for fire pumps and inspection reports.
- The company executing the firefighting systems work, represented by its representatives on site, is responsible for providing all the inspection and measurement tools necessary to complete the detection and receipt procedures.
- Checking the extent of the stakeholders’ compliance with the plans stamped with the Civil Defense seal in terms of the nature of the occupancies and spaces, as the changes made by the owner without consulting the Civil Defense may lead to changing the mechanical requirements in the building.
- Carrying out detection and receipt work through inspection, examination and testing, after matching the sealed schemes. Below are some of the main points that are checked during the receipt of a manual extinguishing system (rubber, linen, or hydrant hoses):
- Verify the capacity of the pump used for the firefighting system according to the plans stamped with the Civil Defense seal (taking into account the calibration of the pumps in the event of a hydronic system).
- Ensure that the pump room requirements for the hydronet system are provided.
- Ensure the size of the stock allocated for firefighting according to the plans stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
- Ensure that the system’s extensions are connected, with the necessity of matching the diameters of these extensions, the locations of the cabins, and the hydronet points to the plans stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
- Ensure that hose cabinets are installed at a height that is easy for building occupants to use.
- Ensure that the necessary protections are placed for the hydronic points and ensure that their extensions are protected from weather conditions.
Automatic extinguishing system (water sprinklers):
- Ensure that the extensions for the system are connected, with the necessity of matching the diameters of these extensions to the schemes stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
- Ensure the capacity of the pumps used for the firefighting system according to the plans stamped with the Civil Defense seal (taking into account the calibration of the pumps).
- Ensure the size of the stock allocated for firefighting according to the schemes stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
- Fire pump inspection certificates and pump performance chart.
- Ensure that the pump room conforms to the required specifications in terms of ventilation, lighting, insulation, etc.
- Ensure that water sprinklers are distributed in the building according to schemes stamped with the Civil Defense seal, taking into account all obstacles and air conditioning and ventilation openings.
- Ensure the method of storage, the nature of the stored materials and their height, and compare them with what has been approved in the schemes stamped with the Civil Defense seal, and if there are any differences in any of these standards, a request will be made to re-study the mechanical engineering schemes as they are on the ground (As Built) in order to approve them again.
- Ensure that the number of clamps and supports in the sprinkler network is sufficient.
- If special types of sprinklers are used, the type and model number of the sprinkler must be checked with what has been approved in the schemes stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
- In the event that there are chemical materials inside the facility, a safety guide for each material (Material Safety Data Sheet) is requested to be studied in the Chemical Department and the appropriate prevention systems and extinguishing agents are determined based on it. If approved, the names of the chemical materials that were studied are matched with what is on the ground.
- In the event that there are additional systems (such as fixed extinguishing systems, kitchen stove extinguishing systems, automatic water throwers, etc.), they are received, tested and examined based on the design schemes stamped with the Civil Defense seal.
Mechanical ventilation system:
Ensure that ventilation schemes, locations of fire and smoke retardants, and the capacity of fans approved in the plans match the reality on the ground
Taking into account the sequence of operation of the fans in the event that there is more than one floor in the case of smoke control, and that the fans must be of the fire-resistant type.
Positive pressure and smoke control systems:
Checking the extent of compliance with the design schemes approved by the Civil Defense for these systems in terms of the locations of the fans, their capacities, the dimensions of the air ducts, the availability of all required valves.....etc.
Documents required while receiving fire alarm systems:
- Ensure that the building to be inspected is the building for which a license is required.
- Confirming the presence of the person concerned and the representatives of the implementing company, “provided that it is accredited in its field of work by the Prevention and Self-Protection Department.”
- Ensure that the building has Civil Defense approval when requesting construction licenses (the presence of sealed design schemes), otherwise the schemes are requested for study and approval.
- Start with the architectural aspects and the nature of occupancy and compare them with the schemes, because any modification may lead to a difference in the required systems.
- Carrying out detection and receipt work through inspection, examination and testing, after matching the sealed schemes on the ground, and following the receipt steps included in the receipt form attached, a copy of which is in the appendix. The following are some of the necessary details for receiving a traditional automatic alarm system:
- Checking fire alarm systems:
- Checking the fire alarm control panel
- Ensure that the control panel is located in a safe, accessible location and monitored around the clock
(Monitoring room, security room, reception room, or central control room) and fixed vertically to the wall, clearly visible, and the site has good ventilation.
- Ensure that the control panel is manufactured and designed according to international specifications and is approved by the Prevention and Self-Protection Department.
- Ensure the presence of visual signals and audio signals that show the location of the area, open circuit malfunctions, short circuit malfunctions, malfunctions in the charging circuit or batteries, malfunctions in the bell circuit, and malfunctions in the electrical supply.
- Ensure that the following components are present and tested:
* A button to silence the bells.
* A button for evacuation.
*A button to reprogram or check.
* Ensure that the panel gives light and audio signals in the following cases:
- Disconnecting the electrical supply: (disconnecting the fuse for the electrical supply).
- Disconnecting the fuse for fire areas or disconnecting one of the wires connected to one of the areas.
- Disconnecting the fuse for the bell circuit or disconnecting one of the wires connected to the circuit.
- Checking for a technical malfunction in the panel or a grounding malfunction.
- Ensure that there are 2 rechargeable batteries and the voltage of each battery is 12 volts connected in series and connected to the charging circuit to be charged.
- Ensure that there is an information board showing the locations of occupancy in each area, the method of dealing with the sign in the event of a malfunction or fire, and the sequence of the correct procedure in dealing with the accident.
- Ensure that there are additional systems (air conditioning systems, water sprinkler systems, elevator systems, etc.) connected to the control panel.
- Inspection of fire detectors:
- Ensure that the quality of detectors is appropriate in the locations where they are installed.
- Ensure that detectors are distributed and installed according to international specifications approved by Civil Defense.
- Ensure that detectors are designed and manufactured according to international specifications and are approved by the Department of Prevention and Self-Protection.
- Ensure that there is an audio and visual malfunction signal on the control panel when dismantling one of the detectors in one of the areas.
- Ensure that there is a fire light signal on the control panel when a heat source is light on a thermal detector installed in one of the areas, or a smoke source is light on a smoke detector in one of the areas, or other detectors are tried, then the bells and alarms go off, and the location of the area is verified from the control panel. Pressing the button to silence the bells, then the tested detectors are cleaned and reinstalled, after which the reprogramming button is pressed to reset.
- Ensure that there is good ventilation in the locations where the detectors are installed (no moisture, dust, etc.) to reduce false alarms.
- Checking manual firing points:
- Ensure that the manual firing points are well attached to the wall and installed at the main exits and in accordance with the international specifications approved by the Civil Defense.
Trying manual firing points depends on the quality and specifications of the unit, so that it is ensured that there is a light and sound signal on the control panel in one of the areas when one of the wires connected to the unit is disconnected.
- Checking audio and visual alerts:
- Ensure that the sound coming from the bells is continuous, audible, and distinct from any sounds coming from other means, so that the sound level is not less than stipulated, taking into account the sound frequency due to the walls, when pressing the release button on the control panel.
- Verify that there is a malfunction in the bell circuit when disconnecting any of the installed bells and that the bells are connected to two separate circuits.
- Ensure that the bells are distributed, installed, manufactured and designed according to the international specifications approved by the Civil Defense. Inspecting the electrical wires for alarm systems (verifying the quality and diameters of the wires):
- Ensure that the electrical wires are resistant to fire for half an hour and that the electrical circuit has no voltage loss according to the specifications.
- Ensure that the existing wires are insulated within pipes and channels as stipulated.
- Ensure that electrical calculations are in place. Ensure that additional systems connected to the alarm systems are working if the alarm system is working.
- If additional systems are found, they will be received, tested, and examined based on the sealed design schemes, as is the receipt forms.
