Applies to all emergency employee alarms installed to meet a particular OSHA standard, but not to discharge or supervisory alarms on fixed extinguishing systems or supervisory alarms on suppression, alarm or detection systems unless they are intended as employee alarms. Maintenance, testing and inspection requirements apply to all local fire alarm signaling systems used to alert employees, and pre-discharge employee alarms must meet paragraphs (b)(1) to (4), (c) and (d)(1). The alarm must warn for the emergency action called for in the emergency action plan, or give reaction time for safe escape, or both; be perceivable above ambient noise or light levels by all employees in affected areas (tactile devices may alert employees who cannot recognize audible or visual alarms); and be distinctive and recognizable as a signal to evacuate or act under the plan. The employer must explain to each employee the preferred means of reporting emergencies, such as pull boxes, public address, radio or telephones, post emergency telephone numbers near telephones, on notice boards and in other conspicuous places where telephones are used for reporting, and give emergency messages priority where a communication system doubles as the alarm. The employer must establish procedures for sounding alarms; with 10 or fewer employees in a workplace, direct voice communication is acceptable if all employees can hear it, and no back-up system is needed. All devices and systems must be approved (steam whistles, air horns, strobe lights or similar lights, and tactile devices meeting the section qualify), restored to normal as promptly as possible after each test or alarm, and supported by spare devices and components. Systems must be kept operating except during repair or maintenance; non-supervised systems must be tested for reliability and adequacy every two months, using a different actuation device in each test so no device is used in two consecutive tests; power supplies maintained or replaced as needed, with back-up means such as runners or telephones when systems are out of service; alarm circuitry installed after January 1, 1981 that can be supervised must be supervised with positive notification of deficiencies, and supervised systems tested at least annually; servicing and testing done by trained persons. Manual actuation devices must be unobstructed, conspicuous and readily accessible.
This control maps to 2 controls across 1 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.
Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.
The graph holds this control, the 2 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.