Mission

The National Fire Escape Association (NFEA) exists to represent the fire escape industry by serving its members and affiliated state and local building, housing inspectors and fire prevention officials. The NFEA members, who are involved in all aspects of a diversified fire escape industry, create jobs for millions of people and contribute significantly to the economic activity and overall safety of their community, the nation and the world. Our members consist of the people that are directly involved in the overall maintenance of fire escapes including: engineers, public safety and code officials, fire protection professionals, management companies, landlords, manufacturers of fire escapes, vendors and painters.

Working in partnership, state and local officials provides superior service to its members and their employees and strives to improve the safety of fire escapes for owners, tenants, employees and fire fighters. To achieve this mission, NFEA concentrates on the following five goals:

• Standardizing the process of Inspecting Fire Escape Systems
• Standardizing the process of Repairing, Certifying and/or Load Testing Fire Escape Systems
• Introduction of Industry Standard Documentation
• Nationalizing the Certification of Fire Escape Vendors, including: Inspectors, Repair Technicians, Fabricators and Painters
• The Development and Introduction of a Comprehensive National Fire Escape Code which exists in all three: fire, building and housing code

Vision

Making Fire Escapes safe again.

Seminars and Inspector Training

Francisco Meneses, founder of the NFEA, is a licensed, certified fire escape engineer and travels the company in his spare time, giving free seminars to cities, town and associations of building, housing and fire safety on fire escape awareness. We currently have a fairly busy schedule of seminars (see schedule on left) and would like to invite you to attend one of them or you contact us about setting up and hosting your own seminar in your area. We are currently scheduling Classes and Seminar for late Fall and Winter of 2011 and Spring of 2012.

If you have monthly association meetings that need a speaker or a LIVE Webinar Telecast between 30 mins and 6 hrs - we can help you out. Continuing Education Units or Credits may be available through your association if applicable. You can also train your inspectors for free, online at FireEscapeAcademy on YouTube (300+ videos from various states). We can also WebCast during your meeting or schedule a class with up to 25 attendees who have access to individual computers. Below, you can view and print out copies of the NFEA's Industry Standard documents, tags and inspection criteria.