Fire Protection Association (FPA)

The Fire Protection Association (FPA) produces technical documents that provide invaluable information and guidance on all fire safety needs, from staff training and educational resources through to detailed technical reference materials.

FPA and IHS have created a collaborative agreement to give subscribers access to key fire safety, fire prevention and fire protection advice, guidance and support in OHSIS - the UK's leading daily updated online health & safety information service.

OHSIS provides access to all key FPA documents in a new supplement. Publications include risk controls, Fire Risk Management and Essentials of Fire Safety Management.

IHS will provide non-FPA members with an FPA membership as an integral part of the OHSIS FPA offering.

New users will enjoy the additional benefit of discounted training courses, discounted training DVDs and publications and access to the highly respected monthly journal, Fire Risk Management.

The new content within OHSIS includes the FPA Library of Fire Safety featuring:

• A wide range of books on fire prevention, security and health and safety 
• An extensive range of recommendation documents 
• Codes of practice 
• Design guide documents 
• Reports 
• Technical briefing notes

The most downloaded FPA documents from The Occupational Health & Safety Information Service:

• Fire Prevention on Construction Sites - The Joint Code of Practice on the Protection from Fire of Construction Sites and Buildings Undergoing Renovation 
• Construction Site Fire Prevention Checklist. 
• Fire Risk Management in Residential Care Homes

OHSIS is a fast, reliable, online platform for all health, safety & environment information, providing access to current legislation, guidance, standards and best practice documents.

The Fire Protection Association (FPA), founded in 1946, is the UK's national fire safety organisation, promoting fire safety within industry, commerce and the wider public. They provide authoritative advice and information on all aspects of fire safety and fire prevention including research, consultancy, training, publications, risk surveying and auditing.

With an unrivalled reputation for quality of work and expertise, our products and services are designed to assist fire, security and safety professionals achieve and maintain the highest standards of fire safety management.

FPA's mandate is to:

• Protect people, property and the environment by advancing fire prevention and protection techniques 
• Collaborate with its members, insurers, central and local government, the fire service and others in this work 
• Help focus national and international attention on such issues 
• Influence related decision-making of individual consumers and businesses 
• Collect, analyse and publish statistics, identify trends and promote research 
• Publish guidance, recommendations and codes of practice 
• Disseminate advice

If you have multiple individuals and departments regularly accessing standards, then an online standards solution from IHS may be more cost effective for you.

IHS Online Standards Solution

The IHS online solution provides company-wide access to the standards you need from a collection of over 1.3 million standards documents. Whether you require documents from a single standards developing organization (SDO), multiple SDOs, segments and packages assembled by IHS content experts, or any combination in between, you can build your own standards library. The online standards management platform - IHS Standards Expert™ - furnishes you with the most comprehensive worldwide collection of industry specifications and standards.  Information is updated daily with easy, intuitive searching, navigation, and monitoring from any desktop.

Custom Online Standards Collection

If you need a collection of individual standards/documents, then the IHS custom standards collection works best for you. This option allows the greatest flexibility allowing you to pick and choose specific documents, whether they come from one or more SDOs. IHS does not require that you purchase a minimum number of documents to use this option. Your custom collection allows for multiple users at multiple locations to access the documents you have chosen.

Individual Purchase

All standards are also available for purchase as individual documents through the IHS Standards Store in PDF or hard copy formats. 

Deposit Accounts

Deposit accounts are a great way for a customer with online access to obtain the individual standards they need. Using a deposit account, an online customer can obtain PDF and hard copy documents outside of their online subscription. For the hard copy customer, this is perfect way to control purchasing and reduce paperwork. Most documents and publications purchased through a deposit account received a 10% discount from the regular price. To create your deposit account, simply download this pdf, fill it out and return it to the address noted on the form. A minimum $500 (US) is required to set up your deposit account.

If you have questions or wish to set up your account by phone, please call +1 800 854-7179, ext 3