A New Window to Global Safety and Productivity: Presenting NFPA LiNK
As the world rapidly evolves with soaring populations and advanced new building materials, those of us who work in jobs that impact safety must work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively to stay ahead. We must work with the highest level of safety knowledge. We must quickly adapt to help keep our constantly evolving world safe.
NFPA LiNK® is a critical part of the solution. NFPA LiNK is a groundbreaking new digital platform that provides individuals and teams instant access to all NFPA® codes and standards as well as expert commentary and visual aids. It helps teams bookmark and share information. It helps companies, teams, and individuals solve problems in real time. NFPA LiNK transforms the code books we have historically used into a dynamic base of knowledge that is easily accessible on smart phones, tablets, or laptops.
Whether you’re an electrician, first responder, building supervisor, architect, welder, inspector, or safety engineer—or whether you’re a business owner or a business of one—NFPA LiNK’s mobile, tablet, and laptop access literally and figuratively provides a new window to productivity for us all.v
NFPA LiNK PROVIDES INSTANT, EASY ACCESS TO CODES AND STANDARDS
NFPA LiNK® is a subscription service that gives you instant access to NFPA codes and standards via any smart device. Imagine the convenience and efficiency of having every NFPA code and standard, plus enhanced content and visual aids, always at your fingertips. On any jobsite, from anywhere, NFPA LiNK can quickly help your teams find the exact information and knowledge they need—from determining conductor sizes for rooftop HVAC, to helping every team member know how a residential fuel/gas system is properly vented. NFPA LiNK provides instant access to the information you and your teams need to solve problems in real time.
NFPA LiNK OFFERS INTUITIVE PATHS TO SOLUTIONS
Part of the intelligence built into the NFPA LiNK platform includes the optional pathways NFPA LiNK provides to help you find the information you need. They couldn’t be easier or more intuitive for you and your teams to use.
The first option is NFPA DiRECT®, a situational navigation pathway. NFPA DiRECT helps you begin to hone in on the information and codes you need by filtering your situation. You first choose from four categories, Occupancy, System, Space, or Equipment, and NFPA LiNK begins to direct you to the information you need.
Let’s say you want to help your team easily access fire door ratings and clearances. By selecting Equipment, you can then select Fire Door, and a range of codes, standards, and expert insights present themselves to you for review.
The second option is NFPA LiNK SEARCH. This option helps you search by keyword, section, article, or chapter to find the codes and standards you need. In our example here, a quick search of the phrase Fire Door filters for you a range of every NFPA code, standard, and chapter covering fire door assemblies, ratings, clearances, and installations.
NFPA LiNK IMPROVES COLLABORATION
No matter what line of work you’re in—from electrical work to first response, from safety engineering to hot work—you run into challenges new and old every day. For challenges consistently faced, helping your team quickly access any codes needed by bookmarking them in your MyLiNK interface helps team members avoid wasting time searching for the same code time after time. In addition to saving time, the NFPA LiNK bookmark function helps ensure that your team consistently uses the right code(s), and references the right information, to provide consistently accurate, top-level service.
NFPA LiNK also helps your team connect from office to office and jobsite to jobsite with a page sharing function that helps you share copied links or bookmarked information via Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. NFPA LiNK collaborative tools help your team do something traditional code books can’t do—literally be on the same page.
NFPA LiNK FACILITATES INSPECTION AND HELPS INSPECTORS
Imagine reviewing a jobsite with an inspector and being able to call up the codes and standards your team used in real time. Real-time reference on your mobile phone, tablet, or laptop can help convey the diligence of your team and the validity of the standards met. Inspectors will also find NFPA LiNK a valuable educational tool to clarify and support proper installations and assemblies, and to provide guidance for a project that still needs a little work. NFPA LiNK provides clarity and guidance on the spot—yet another way it provides a window to productivity.
NFPA LiNK PROVIDES CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE ON ANY JOBSITE
At the end of the day, we can all agree that any work that affects the safety of life and property is work that must be done at the highest level. NFPA LiNK offers instant digital access to codes and standards, making doing work at the highest level easier, faster, and more consistent. NFPA LiNK is literally a window to productivity for you and your entire team. NFPA LiNK empowers teams to work at their best by helping them walk onto any jobsite knowing they have the clarity, ability, and confidence to do any job right sitting in the palm of their hand.
A CHANGING WORLD DEMANDS THAT WE CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK
Building materials now burn hotter and faster than in years past. New technologies such as alternate fuel vehicles and energy storage systems pose new challenges. Large warehouses require the design and installation of an early suppression fast response (ESFR) sprinkler system. First responder demand is growing due to increases of wildland fires, and increased threats of gun violence nationwide. How does your team work better in a changing world? Change with it.
From installing grounded electrode systems, to inspecting fire doors, to doing virtually any work that affects life and safety, NFPA LiNK—a new groundbreaking digital code and information platform—is the change you need. NFPA LiNK puts all the codes and standards your teams need right at their fingertips. With NFPA LiNK, you can help your team find, save, bookmark, and share any code, going back up to five editions. Bookmarking and sharing codes, ideas, and insights help your teams work more collaboratively, with greater efficiency and overall productivity.