Fire Code

BUILDING SYSTEM
DESIGN
FIRE CODE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FIRE CODE OF THE d. Provision on Fire Safety
PHILIPPINES Construction, Protective and
01
Warning System
SECTION 2
SECTION 4
SECTION 5
SECTION 7
FIRE CODE OF THE

PHILIPPINES
03 FIRE CODE OF THE
PHILIPPINES
02 a. InspectionRequirement
b. Safety Measures for Hazardous
Materials
RULE 10: fire safety measures
c. Safety Measures for Hazardous

Operation/Processes
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
04 coverage
DIVISION 1
Chapter 2 DIVISION 2
05
DIVISION 5
FIRE SAFETY IN
BUILDINGS,
STRUCTURES AND
FACILITIES
Republic Act No. 9514
Fire Code of the

Philippines of 2008
Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008 01
SECTION 2. It is the policy of the State to ensure
public safety, promote economic development through
the prevention and suppression of all kinds, of
destructive fires, and promote the professionalization of
the fire service as a profession. Towards this end, the
State shall enforce all laws, rules and regulations to
ensure adherence to standard fire prevention and
safety measures, and promote accountability in the fire
protection and prevention service.
Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008
SECTION 4. Applicability of the Code. ‑ The provisions of

the Fire Code shall apply to all persons and all private and
public buildings, facilities or structures erected or
constructed before and after its effectivity.
SECTION 5. Responsibility for the Enforcement of this

Code. ‑ This Code shall be administered and enforced by
the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), under the direct
supervision and control of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Protection, through the hierarchy of organization as provided
for in Chapter VI of Republic Act No. 6975.
SECTION 7. Inspections, Safety Measures, Fire

Safety, Constructions and Protective and/or Warning
Systems. ‑ As may be defined and provided in the rules
and regulations, owners, administrators or occupants
of buildings, structures and their premises or facilities
and other responsible persons shall be required to
comply with the following, as may be appropriate:
a) Inspection Requirement ‑ A fire safety inspection shall be conducted by the Chief,

BFP or his duly authorized representative as prerequisite to the grants of permits
and/or licenses by local governments and other government agencies concerned,
b) Safety Measures for Hazardous Materials ‑ Fire safety measures shall be required
for the manufacture, storage, handling and/or use of hazardous materials
c) Safety Measures for Hazardous Operation/Processes ‑ Fire safety measures shall

be required for the hazardous operation/processes
d) Provision on Fire Safety Construction, Protective and Warning System ‑ Owners,

occupants or administrator or buildings, structures and their premises or facilities, except
such other buildings or structures as may be exempted in the rules and regulations to be
promulgated under Section 5 hereof, shall incorporate and provide therein fire safety
construction, protective and warning system, and shall develop and implement fire
safety programs
RULE 10: FIRE SAFETY

MEASURES
CHAPTER 1. COVERAGE
This Rule covers the fire safety measures for
buildings, structures and facilities, hazardous
materials and wastes, hazardous operations and
processes, and miscellaneous hazardous
premises and/or conditions that by its very nature
or relation to life, property and environment pose
threat or danger.
CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES
AND FACILITIES
DIVISION 1. SCOPE
A. This Chapter deals with life safety from fire and like emergencies in buildings, structures and facilities. It
covers construction, protection and occupancy features to minimize danger to life from fire, smoke, vapor
and fumes before buildings are vacated. It also discusses procedures and guidelines in fire drills required for
all types of occupancies to prevent panic in times of emergencies. It specifies the number, size, and
arrangement of means of egress sufficient to permit prompt and safe escape of occupants from buildings, or
structures or facilities in case of fire or other conditions dangerous to life and property.
B. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prohibit a better type of design, building construction, more
exits, or otherwise safer conditions than the requirements specified in this Chapter.
C. Nothing in this Rule is intended to prevent the use of new methods or devices, provided sufficient
technical data are submitted to demonstrate that the new method or device is equivalent in quality, strength,
fire resistance, effectiveness, durability, and safety to that prescribed by this Rule

AND FACILITIES
DIVISION 2. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

A. Every building or structure, new or old, designed for human occupancy shall
be provided with exits sufficient to permit the fast and safe escape of occupants
in case of fire or other emergencies. The design of exits and other fire safety
construction shall be such that reliance for safety of life in case of fire or other
emergencies will not depend solely on any single fire safety construction.
Additional safeguards shall be provided for life safety in case any single
safeguard is ineffective due to some human or mechanical failure.

AND FACILITIES
B. Every building or structure shall be designed, constructed, equipped,

maintained and operated to avoid danger to lives and ensure safety of its
occupants from fire, smoke, vapor and fumes, during the period of escape from
the building or structure.
C. Every building or structure shall be provided with exits of kind, number,

location and capacity appropriate to the individual building or structure, with due
regard for the character of the occupancy, the number of persons exposed, the
fire protection available and the height and type of construction of the building or
structure, to afford all occupants convenient facilities for escape.

AND FACILITIES
D. Every exit of buildings or structures shall be arranged and maintained

to provide free and unobstructed egress from all parts thereof at all
times. No lock or fastening device that would prevent escape from the
inside of any building shall be installed except in mental, penal, or
correctional institutions where personnel are continually on duty and
effective provisions are made to evacuate occupants in case of fire or
other emergencies.

AND FACILITIES
E. Every exit shall be clearly visible. The route to the exit shall be
conspicuously marked in such a manner that every occupant of a
building or structure will readily know the direction of escape. Each route
of escape, in its entirety, shall be so arranged or marked that the way to
a place of safety outside is unmistakable. Any doorway not constituting
an exit shall be marked to minimize its possible confusion as an exit.
Likewise, passage constituting a way to reach an exit shall be marked to
minimize confusion.
AND FACILITIES
F. All means of egress shall be provided with adequate and reliable illumination.
G. Fire alarm systems or devices shall be provided in every building or structure

of such size, arrangement, or occupancy, to provide adequate warning to
occupants.
H. Every building or structure, section, or area thereof of such size, occupancy

and arrangement such that the reasonable safety of a number of occupants may
be endangered by the blocking of any single means of egress due to fire or
smoke, shall have at least two means of egress remote from each other, so
arranged as to minimize any possibility that both may be blocked by any one fire
or other emergency conditions

AND FACILITIES
I. Every vertical way of exit and other vertical openings between floors of a
building shall be suitably enclosed or protected to afford reasonable safety
of occupants while using exits and to prevent spread of fire, smoke, or
fumes through vertical openings from floor to floor before occupants have
entered exits.
AND FACILITIES
J. Required Fire Safety Programs/Measures
In addition to the requirements, lessees or occupants of buildings,

structures or facilities shall observe all pertinent fire safety measures.
1. All occupants or lessees of buildings, structures or facilities shall organize themselves, and
develop and implement fire safety programs to include among others, fire prevention in the
premises, notification of the BFP on the existence of fire, evacuation of persons and initial
firefighting. The building owner shall take the initiative of formulating the fire safety program
for his/her building and of organizing the occupants to implement the programs.

AND FACILITIES
2. In buildings, leased to and used by one (1) or several companies or

persons, the management of each company or each person shall be
responsible for fire safety measures within the leased or occupied areas.
The building owner shall be responsible for the common areas in the
building such as the means of egress, utilities and building services
equipment or systems.

AND FACILITIES
3. In building structures or facilities, such as condominium and the like,

where some units of the building are not yet sold, the provisions of para 2
above shall apply. When all condominium units have been sold,
responsibility for fire safety measures in the common areas such as the
means of egress, utilities, building equipment/system and the building as a
whole, shall devolve jointly upon all individual unit owners, occupants and
building administrators.
CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND
FACILITIES
DIVISION 5. MEANS OF EGRESS

SECTION 10.2.5.13 EMERGENCY EVACUATION PLAN
An emergency evacuation plan shall be posted on strategic and
conspicuous locations in the building containing the following basic
information:
1. “You Are Here/ room number/ building” Marking
2. Fire Exits
3. Primary Route to Exit (Nearest to the viewer)
4. Secondary Route to Exit (Second nearest to the viewer)
CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND
FACILITIES
5. Fire alarm pull stations and annunciators

6. Fire extinguishers/ hose cabinets
7. Emergency Light
8. First Aid Kits locations (if applicable)
9. Emergency Call stations (if applicable)
10. Areas of safe refuge (for high-rise building)
11. Assembly areas instructions
12. “In Case of Emergency” instructions
SECTION 9. Violations, Penalties and Abatement of Fire Hazards.
‑ Fire hazards shall be abated immediately. The Chief, BFP or
his/her duly authorized representative, upon the report that a
violation of this Code or other pertinent laws, rules and
regulations is being committed, shall issue notice/order to comply
to the owner, administrator, occupant or other person responsible
for the condition of the building or structure, indicating among
other things, the period within which compliance shall be effected,
which shall be within ten (10) to fifteen (15) days after the receipt
of the notice/order, depending on the reasonableness to
adequately comply with the same.
If after the lapse of the aforesaid period, the owner, administrator, occupant or
other responsible persons failed to comply, the Chief, BFP or his/her duly
authorized representative shall put up a sign in front of the building or structure
that it is a fire hazard. Specifically, the notice shall bear the words
“WARNING: THIS BUILDING/STRUCTURE IS A FIRE HAZARD”, which
shall remain posted until such time that the owner, administrator, occupant or
other persons responsible for the condition of the building, structure and their
premises or facilities abate the same, but such period shall not exceed fifteen
(15) days from the lapse of the initial period given in the notice/order to
comply.
Finally, with the failure of the owner, administrator, occupant or other
persons responsible for the condition of the building, structure and their
premises or facilities to comply within the period specified above, the
Chief, BFP may issue order for such abatement. If the owner,
administrator or occupant of buildings, structure and their premises or
facilities does not abate the same within the period fixed in said order,
the building, structure, premises or facilities shall be ordered closed by
the Chief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative notwithstanding
any permit clearance or certificate earlier issued by the local authorities.
Any building or structure assessed and declared by the Chief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative as a
firetrap on account of the gravity or palpability of the violation or is causing clear and present imminent fire
danger to adjoining establishments and habitations shall be declared a public nuisance, as defined in the Civil
Code of the Philippines in a notice to be issued to the owner, administrator, occupant or other person responsible
for the condition of the building, structure and their premises or facilities. If the assessed value of the nuisance or
the amount to be spent in abating the same is not more than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), the
owner, administrator or occupant thereof shall abate the hazard within Fifteen (15) days, or if the assessed value is
more than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), within thirty (30) days from receipt of the order declaring
said building or structure a public nuisance; otherwise, the Chief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative
shall forthwith cause its summary abatement. Failure to comply within five (5) days from the receipt of the notice
shall cause the Chief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative to put up a sign in front of the building or
structure, at or near the entrance of such premises, notifying the public that such building or structure is a “FIRE
TRAP”, which shall remain until the owner, administrator, occupant or other person responsible for the condition
of the building, structure and their premises or facilities abate the same within the specified period.
SUMMARY
Republic Act 9514 established the Philippines' comprehensive fire code
and repealed P.D. No. 1185, series of 1977. It reiterates the State’s policy
of ensuring public safety and promoting economic growth by preventing
and suppressing all kinds of destructive fires. That this code composed of
different kinds of code in every part of the building system.
The Fire Code of the Philippines “ Section 2”. It stated that the policy of
the State to ensure public safety, promote economic development through
the prevention and suppression. In other words that this code implies the
safeness and the good provision of the certain system of the building.

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BUILDING SYSTEM

FIRE CODE OF THE

c. Safety Measures for Hazardous

Fire Code of the

SECTION 4. Applicability of the Code. ‑ The provisions of

SECTION 5. Responsibility for the Enforcement of this

SECTION 7. Inspections, Safety Measures, Fire

a) Inspection Requirement ‑ A fire safety inspection shall be conducted by the Chief,

c) Safety Measures for Hazardous Operation/Processes ‑ Fire safety measures shall

d) Provision on Fire Safety Construction, Protective and Warning System ‑ Owners,

RULE 10: FIRE SAFETY

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

DIVISION 2. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

B. Every building or structure shall be designed, constructed, equipped,

C. Every building or structure shall be provided with exits of kind, number,

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

D. Every exit of buildings or structures shall be arranged and maintained

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

G. Fire alarm systems or devices shall be provided in every building or structure

H. Every building or structure, section, or area thereof of such size, occupancy

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

In addition to the requirements, lessees or occupants of buildings,

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

2. In buildings, leased to and used by one (1) or several companies or

CHAPTER 2. FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES

3. In building structures or facilities, such as condominium and the like,

DIVISION 5. MEANS OF EGRESS

5. Fire alarm pull stations and annunciators

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