Fire and Life Safety
The Fire & Life Safety Section (FLSS) is responsible for ensuring that the following are constructed and maintained in compliance with requirements:
- Public Schools
- Charter Schools
- Junior Colleges
- State-Licensed Healthcare Facilities
- Limited Gaming Facilities
- Waste Tire Facilities
Requirements include:
- state statutes
- regulations
- adopted codes
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) (for healthcare facilities).
FLSS confirms that suppression systems in Colorado are installed by registered professionals in accordance with State statutes, regulations, and adopted codes. It also confirms that they are inspected by certified inspectors. Lastly, the Section licenses persons dealing with fireworks and regulates fireworks. It ensures that the sale of permissible fireworks in Colorado is conducted in licensed retail facilities. It also ensures that these facilities are properly constructed and maintained for this activity. To accomplish this mission, the members of the FLSS:
- perform building, fire, and life safety code plan reviews and inspections
- help to develop building and fire code professionals throughout Colorado by providing inspection and plan review education and training
- regulate licenses and certifications.
In addition to the above enforcement activities, the Section is responsible for conducting Fire Origin and Cause Investigations when requested by a local jurisdiction. The Section also provides assistance to local jurisdictions to assess the risks in their communities and to develop and implement Community Risk Reduction initiatives to reduce identified risks.
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- The Purpose of Our Section
The Fire and Life Safety Section administers the fire, building, and life safety codes adopted by the Division.
The Section is also available to assist local fire and/or building officials with plan review, inspection, or code analysis of non-regulated facilities, at their request.
In addition, the Section is available to assist local fire and/or law enforcement agencies with fire origin and cause investigations at their request.
- Organization Chart
- Branches that make up our Section
Building Codes
The Building Codes Branch is responsible for the construction and inspections of public schools, institute charter schools, charter schools and junior colleges buildings and structures.
Community Risk Reduction & Education
Provides support, education and training for fire and building code compliance, inspections and plan reviews.
Fire Investigations
Responsible for determining the origin, cause, and circumstances of fires (structural and wildland) that occur throughout Colorado.
Fire Prevention
The Fire Prevention Branch (FPB) is responsible for the construction, inspection, and issuance of Certificates of Compliance (CoC) for certified and non-certified health facilities licensed by the State of Colorado. It is also responsible for the inspection of fire and/or life safety permits for schools and any building in which the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) has requested the Division to assist. The FPB is also responsible for school maintenance inspections.