The current 2017 Edition of NFPA 1983 contains three main categories of life safety rope and equipment. These are Escape Use, Technical Use and General Use. General Use rope and carabiners ...

NFPA 1858, Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services, is in preliminary draft form. The deadline for public input on the draft is Jan. 7 ...

NFPA 1983 can also be referenced for more information, as it pertains to “Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services.” Components of a self-rescue system can range from ...

This past August, New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer signed a law requiring employers to provide firefighters throughout New York, excluding the FDNY, with life safety ropes. The Black Sunday fire ...

Sterling Rope Company, Inc., the life-safety manufacturer that built the first ever 100% Technora® fire escape rope for FDNY, now offers the FCX Rescue Device; a competitively-priced and advanced ...

The ropes will be placed on the Life Rings along the bank of the River ... Park for their help and amazing work they do for water safety. “We will continue to work hard to get the ropes rolled ...