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Occupancy Classifications |
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Occupancy classifications categorize the uses of a building for the purposes of determining what fire code requirements will apply. Below is a brief description of the occupancy classifications set by the California Fire Code. The links from the occupancy types go to the Inspection Reports that Oakland Inspectors use as a guide to fire code requirements. These reports are incomplete guides, for complete requirements, the California Fire Code must be referenced.
Group A Occupancy – Buildings or portions of buildings used for the gathering of
50 or more people for purposes of civil, religious, social, eating
or drinking, entertainment, and transportation.
Group A Division 1 – A building or portion of a building having an assembly room with an occupant load of 1,000 or more and a legitimate stage. Group A Division 2 – A building or portion of a building having an assembly room with an occupant load of less than 1,000 and a legitimate stage. Group A Division 2.1 – A building or portion of a building having an assembly room with an occupant load of 300 or more without a legitimate stage. Group
A Division 3 – A building or portion of a building
having an assembly room with an occupant load of les
Group A Division 4 – Stadiums, reviewing stands, and amusement park structures not included within other Group A occupancies
Group B Occupancy – Buildings or portions of buildings used for office, professional or service-type transactions. B occupancies include occupancies for the storage of records and accounts, and eating and drinking establishments with an occupant load of less than 50. Business occupancies shall include in part: banks, barber shops, car washes, civic administration, certain outpatient clinics and medical offices, laundry and dry Cleaning pick-up/delivery stations, educational occupancies above the 12th grade, electronic data processing, fire stations, florists, testing and research laboratories, police stations, post offices, print shops, professional services (attorney, dentist, etc.), and telephone exchanges.
Group E Occupancy – Buildings or portions of buildings used for the purposes of education typically of children under the age of 18.
Group E division 2 - Any building used for educational purposes through the 12th grade less than 50 persons for the more than 12 ours per week or four hours in any one day. Group E Division 3 – A non-residential building used for daycare purposes for more than 6 children/person, or any residential building used for day care purposes for 15 or more persons.
Aircraft, Engines, incl. rebuilding, Appliance, Food Processing, Automobiles, Furniture, Bakeries, laundries, Alcoholic Beverages, Motion picture and television filming, Bicycles, Paper mills or products, Boats, Plastic Products, Cameras and Photo Equipment, Printing or Publishing, Carpets, Refuse Incineration, Clothing, Shoes, Construction, Agricultural Machinery, Trailers, Dry Cleaning and Dyeing, Millwork, Electronics Assembly, and Woodworking/Cabinet making. Group F Division 2 - Low-hazard factory and industrial occupancies shall include facilities producing noncombustible or nonexplosive materials which do not involve a significant fire hazard including, but not limited to the following: 1. Nonalcoholic Beverages 5. Glass Products 2. Brick and Masonry 6. Gypsum 3. Ceramic Products 7. Ice 4. Foundries 8. Steel Products
Group H Occupancies – Building or portions of buildings used where the processes, operations, or storage of materials is hazardous to the community. Contact the Fire Prevention Bureau for assistance in regulating this specialized occupancies. 510 238-3927 Group H Division 1 – Buildings or structures that involve manufacturing, processing, generation or storage of materials in excess of those listed in CBC Table 3-D which present a high explosion hazard, including, but not limited to: a. Explosives, Blasting Agents, Fireworks and Black Powder b. Manufacture of common fire works c. Unclassified detonable organic peroxides d. Class 4 Oxidizers e. Class 4 Detonable unstable (reactive) materials Group H Division 2 - Buildings or structures that involve manufacturing, processing, generation or storage of materials in excess of those listed in CBC Table 3-D which present a moderate explosion hazard or hazard from accelerated burning,, including, but not limited to: 1. Class I organic peroxides 2. Class 3 non detonable unstable (reactive) materials 3. Pyrophoric Gases 4. Flammable or Oxidizing gases 5. Class I, II, or III-A flammable or combustible liquids which are used or stored in normally open containers or systems, or in closed systems at more that 15 psi (100 kPa) pressure. Group H Division 3 - Buildings or structures that involve manufacturing, processing, generation or storage of materials in excess of those listed in CBC Table 3-D which present a high physical hazard, including, but not limited to: a. Class II, III or IV organic peroxides b. Class 1 or 2 oxidizers c. Class I, II, or III-A flammable or combustible liquids which are used or stored in normally closed containers or systems, or in closed systems at more that 15 psi (100 kPa) pressure. d. Class 3-B combustible liquids e. Pyrophoric liquids or solids f. Flammable solids in storage g. Flammable or Oxidizing cryogenic fluids (other than inert) h. Class 1 unstable (reactive gas or Class 2 unstable (reactive) materials i. Common Fireworks in storage. Group H Division 4 – Vehicle repair garages not classified as Group S, Division 3 occupancies. Group H Division 5 – Aircraft repair hangers not classified as Group S, Division 5 occupancies and heliports. Group H Division 6 – Semiconductor fabrication facilities and comparable research and development areas in which hazardous production materials are used where the aggregate quantity of materials is in excess of those listed in Tables 8001.13-A or 8001-13-B. Group H Division 7 – Occupancies having quantities of materials in excess of those listed in Table 8001.15-B that are health hazards, including corrosives, toxic and highly toxic materials, irritants and sensitizers. Group H Division 8 – Laboratories and similar areas used for scientific experimentation or research, but not classified as an H-1, H-2, H-3, H-6, H-7 or B occupancy
Group I Occupancies – Buildings or portions of building which provide full time care of patients. Group
I Division 1.1: Nurseries providing full-time care for children under age 6
for more than 6 children or hospitals, sanitariums, nursing homes
where medical care is provided.
Group I Division 1.2: Health Care Facilities for ambulatory patients receiving
outpatient medical care which may render the patient incapable or
unassisted of self-preservation (each tenant space accommodating
more than 5 patients).
Group I Division 3: Mental hospitals, mental sanitariums, jails, prisons, reformatories and building where personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained.
Group M Occupancy – Buildings used for the display and sale of merchandise, and involving stocks of goods, wares or merchandise incidental to such purposes and accessible to the public. Mercantile occupancies include, but are not limited to:
2. Drug Stores 6. Sales rooms 3. Markets 7. Wholesale and Retail 4. Paint stores without bulk handling 8. Stores
Group S Occupancy - Buildings used for storage not classified as a Group H Occupancy Group S Division 1 – Moderate hazard storage purposes, including storage of combustible materials not classified as a Group S Division 2 or Group H Occupancy. Group S Division 2 -– Low-hazard storage, including storage of noncombustible materials on wood pallets or in paper wrappings and shall include ice plants, power plants, power plants and pumping plants. This occupancy shall include, in part, storage of the following items: 1. Beer and Wine 9. Fresh Fruits 2. Cement in bags 10. Frozen foods 3. Cold Storage and creameries 11. Glass bottles 4. Dry-cell batteries 12. Gypsum board 5. Electrical insulators 13. Meats 6. Electric motors 14. Metal furniture 7. Empty cans 15. Stoves and washers 8. Foods in noncombustible containers
Group S Division 4 – Open parking garages Group S Division 5 – Aircraft hangars where work is limited to exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame or welding, helistops.
Group U Occupancies – Miscellaneous items addressed by the national, state, and local codes |
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