Elevator Emergency Communication Requirements
Elevators require a variety of emergency communications. What do you know about those requirements? Take this quiz and see.
1. If adopted locally, the 2025 edition of ASME A17.1/CSA B44, Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, applies to _______.
Correct Answer: All of the above
2. If a passenger is trapped in an elevator car, they must have the ability to notify authorized personnel so help can be dispatched.
Correct Answer: True
3. If a fire alarm voice speaker is required within an elevator car, _______ should be provided.
Correct Answer: No visual notification appliance
4. If a fire alarm voice speaker is required within an elevator car, it should be connected to the fire alarm voice speaker circuit serving the highest floor of the building.
Correct Answer: False
5. If a firefighter telephone system is installed within a building, ASME A17.1 requires a fire warden phone or fire phone jack at which of the following locations?
Correct Answer: A and B
6. Elevator interface compliance typically involves only one code: ASME A17.1.
Correct Answer: False
7. ASME A17.1 requires compliance with which two NFPA standards?
Correct Answer: NFPA 13 and NFPA 72
8. If an elevator lobby smoke detector is activated in a building, the fire alarm system shall activate which of the following?
Correct Answer: Recall the elevator to the designated or alternate floor.
9. The 2019 edition of ASME A17.1 introduced new components within elevator cars to move beyond voice-only communication and can now include video, text notifications and visual messages.
Correct Answer: True
10. In high-rise buildings, the International Building Code requires a _______ inside each elevator car to support manual one-way announcements to certain elevator groups.
Correct Answer: Voice speaker
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