HIGH-RISE FIRE PROTECTION
77. (1) The hotelkeeper of a high-rise hotel shall ensure that the required emergency systems are properly maintained and operative at all times. (2) The hotelkeeper of a high-rise hotel shall ensure that, (a) keys required to recall elevators and to permit independent operation of each elevator are kept in a suitably identified box in a conspicuous location on the outside of the elevator shaft and at the central alarm and control facility; (b) an elevator designed for firefighters’ use is maintained in operable condition and is identified on the floor containing the central alarm and control facility and at any interchange level; (c) access to windows and panels required to vent floor areas and to manually operable vents to vestibules is unobstructed; (d) windows and panels provided for venting floor areas can be opened readily without the use of keys; and (e) manually operable vents to vestibules are maintained in an operable condition. (3) The hotelkeeper of a high-rise hotel shall ensure that, at intervals of not more than three months, (a) every elevator door opening device operated by means of photoelectric cells is tested to ensure that the device becomes inoperative after the door has been held open for more than ten seconds with the photoelectric cell covered; (b) key operated switches located outside an elevator shaft are tested to ensure that actuation of the switch will render the emergency stop switch in each car inoperative and bring all cars to the street floor or transfer lobby by cancelling all other calls after the car has stopped at the next floor at which it can make a normal stop; and (c) key operators’ switches in each elevator car are tested to ensure that actuation of the switch will, (i) enable the elevator to operate independently of other elevators, (ii) allow operation of the elevator without interference from floor call buttons, (iii) render door protective devices inoperative, and (iv) permit the opening of power-operated doors only by continuous pressure on the door opening buttons or switches, so that if the “open” button or switch is released while the door is opening, the door will automatically close. (4) The hotelkeeper of a high-rise hotel shall ensure that, (a) closures in vent openings into the smoke shafts from each floor area are inspected at least once in each five year period; (b) every closure in an opening to the outdoors at the top of a smoke shaft is inspected annually to ensure that it will open, (i) manually from outside the building, (ii) on a signal from a smoke or heat actuated device in the smoke shaft, and (iii) when a closure in an opening between a floor area and the smoke shaft opens; (c) all elevators in an elevator shaft that is intended for use as a smoke shaft are inspected semi-annually, to ensure that on activation of the fire alarm system they will return to the street floor and remain inoperative; and (d) controls for air-handling systems used for venting in the event of a fire are inspected annually, to ensure that air is exhausted from each floor area to the outdoors as required. (5) The hotelkeeper of a high-rise hotel shall ensure that, (a) the smoke control equipment is maintained to ensure satisfactory operation; (b) where smoke control measures contained in the ACNBC publication “Measures for Fire Safety in High Buildings” are used, inspections and tests are conducted as outlined in section 7.3 of the National Fire Code of Canada, 1985; and (c) where smoke control systems are designed to meet the requirements of sentences 3.2.6.2 (2), (3) and (4) of the Ontario Building Code, inspection and testing of the equipment shall be in accordance with procedures established by the designer of the system. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 640, s. 77. TESTS AND RECORDS