IN-PERSON TRAINING

COURSE TITLE:  

Fire Alarm and Signaling Systems Testing and Inspections including Integrated Testing per NFPA 72-2025 and NFPA 4-2024

TRAINING DATE: 

Friday, July 24, 2026  

TRAINING LOCATION:

The Chino Valley Fire District Training Center,

5092 Schaefer Ave, Chino, CA  91710-5549

INSTRUCTOR: 

SAGIV WEISS-ISHAI, P.E.
CA Licensed Fire Protection Engineer

·       27 yrs. experience in Fire Protection Engineering

·       Principal AHJ member – NFPA 72 Technical Committee SIG-PRO since 2012

·       AHJ Member national elevator safety Code ASME A17.1 – Emergency Operations & Hoistway Technical committees

·       NFPA 72 and ASME A17.1 Task Group member on Fire Service Access Elevators & Occupant Evacuation Elevators

·       AHJ Member – Calif. State Fire Alarm Code Advisory Committee

·       Chair of the elevator committee for the CA Existing Building Code

·       Served as Fire Code Official on the Calif State – Bldg. Fire & Other Code Advisory Committee to the Calif. Bldg. Stds. Commission

·       AHJ Member 2019-2020 CSFM Elevator Work Group to Changes in CBC Chapter 30 – Elevators

·       Past President – Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) of the Nevada-Northern CA Chapter

COURSE OUTLINE:

• Routine inspections and testing of fire alarm systems are crucial for ensuring they function correctly and protect lives and property, often mandated by local authorities and insurance companies. These checks typically include visual inspections, functional tests, and testing of components like detectors, control panels, and notification devices.
• NFPA 72-2025 Chapter 14 outlines the requirements for fire alarm system inspection, testing, and maintenance, including notification procedures and schedules for various components of fire alarm systems, encompassing initial acceptance testing, routine inspections, and reacceptance testing.

• The 2025 California Fire Code (CFC) effective in CA since January 1st, 2026, has adopted NFPA 4 - 2024 Edition:  "Standard for Integrated Fire Protection and Life Safety System Testing,". NFPA 4 focuses on verifying the interoperability and coordinated performance of interconnected fire protection and life safety systems, ensuring they function as designed during an emergency.

• Integrated testing includes the interface between the fire alarm system and other life-safety and fire protection systems in the building, such as sprinkler, fire pump and other suppression systems, smoke control, elevator recall & shunt, ERRCS, ERCES and many other systems. 
• This training will discuss and clarify the associated and specific requirements of NFPA 72-2025 Chapter 14 and NFPA 4-2021 regarding fire Alarm and signaling systems testing, Inspections and maintenance, who is responsible for what, which sequence and features are required to be tested and the relationship between the AHJs, Inspectors and contractors and the required responsibilities of each trade. 

GENERAL INFORMATION: 

• Five and one-quarter (5.25) Continuing Education Hours (CEH) will be awarded to students on completion of training.  The CEHs can be converted to Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the WBFAA.
• Class size is limited in both locations.  We will implement a wait-list process and encourage you to add yourself to the waitlist as that will be a gauge to us that the class should be re-offered.
• Our goal for in-person training is to be able to offer at least one in-person training session, in each region, in each calendar quarter. 
• FPE and CAFAA will be developing new course material to meet the ever-changing needs of our membership, for a fresh, high-quality, California-centric curriculum.
• Sagiv Weiss-Ishai, P.E. (Calif. Licensed Fire Protection Engineer) is the principal trainer for FPE and will be the instructor for the two sessions in August. 

*Disclaimer:  As the course trainer, Mr. Weiss-Ishai will not be representing the SFFD policies or procedures in his course delivery. * 

WHO CAN BENEFIT BY ATTENDING THE CLASS:

• Fire Alarm and Signaling systems personnel (e.g. Designers, Installers, Technicians, Service personnel, Vendors, Engineers)
• Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and Code Officials (e.g. Fire, Building, Electrical, Code Enforcers and Plan Reviewers)
• Electrical and Fire Protection Engineers
• Fire Inspectors: Plan-check and field inspectors

MATERIALS PROVIDED: 

Each student will receive a HARD copy booklet (2-slide per page format, double-sided) at the training site.

CLASS SCHEDULE:  

7:30am - 8:00am Continental breakfast

8:00am - 9:45am Training and Q&A

9:45am - 10:00am Break

10:00am - 12:00pm Training and Q&A

12:00pm - 12:30pm Lunch

12:30pm - 1:45pm Training and Q&A

1:45pm - 2:00pm open Q&A session on any class related topic

ENROLLMENT FEES

$199 for California FPOs/AHJs

$299 for employees of a CAFAA member company

$399 for non-CAFAA member attendees

CLASS SIZED IS LIMITED TO 50 STUDENTS - we will go to a Wait List process if/when the maximum is reached.  If the wait list is implemented, we encourage you to add yourself if interested as we will use the list as a gauge to whether the class should be re-offered.

*Note for CEU's: There is no cost for conversion of CEU's to a WBFAA member. Fees may apply to non-members.