Not strictly. The Building Code of Australia (BCA) has traditionally been a technical design specification. It provides information that enables designers to nominate installation standards for physical safety measures. Section I of the Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions of the BCA lists these safety measures. I would call the planning and management of evacuation a “management procedure”. In this way it is more about how the building is occupied rather than how it is constructed.
The introduction of the performance based BCA in 1996 enables published technical standards (and other evidence of suitability) for management procedures and other risk controls to be considered as installation standards for alternative solutions.
AS3745-2002 Emergency Control Organisations and Procedures for Buildings is not a referenced standard in the Building Code of Australia. I had an associate recently ask me whether (and how) it should be considered and applied in assessment of compliance with the relevant performance requirements in the BCA2010. (more…)
