What is a Fire Safety Plan?

A Fire Safety Plan (FSP) identifies actions taken in the event of a fire (or other emergency situation) by the occupants and building management in accordance with Section 2.8 of the Ontario Fire Code (OFC).

Each Fire Safety Plan required by the OFC shall be reviewed and approved by the local fire department's Chief Fire Official. The approved hard copy of the fire safety plan shall be available on site for the fire department officers (usually close to the main entrance in a fire safety plan box, location of which must be approved by the inspector).

*check local by-laws for details on FSP boxes

Does my building require a Fire Safety Plan?

The following buildings are required by law to have a Fire Safety Plan (FSP) in accordance with Section 2.8 of the Ontario Fire Code:

all buildings and premises containing 4 storeys or more, including storeys below grade
an assembly occupancy,
a care occupancy,
a care and treatment occupancy,
a detention occupancy,
a residential occupancy where the occupant load exceeds 10,
a retirement home,
a business and personal services occupancy where the occupant load exceeds 300,
a mercantile occupancy where the occupant load exceeds 300,
a high hazard industrial occupancy where the occupant load exceeds 25,
a medium hazard industrial occupancy where the occupant load exceeds 100, or
a low hazard industrial occupancy where the occupant load exceeds 300.

If you are not sure if you need a Fire Safety Plan, just contact us for a consultation.

Our process

We will guide you all the way through; from inquiry to approval.

Inquiry

We require certain information from you in order to make our determination of price and timeline. We typically need to know what kind of a building it is and what sort of business. How many stories (including basement and underground parking), area.

Drawings

Floor Plans, recent or old, are very helpful not only to keep things accurate but also timely, the better we are prepared before the site visit the faster and more smoothly it will go.

Visit

We typically need to visit the actualy site and make note of all of the fire safety equipment and layout of the building. If we didn't receive any floor plans, we would be making the floor plan from scratch during the visit (not to scale). We will be also looking for the electric, water and gas shut offs as well as any fire safety panels.

Submission

Once we leave the site, we will be proceeding to finalize the floor plans and the written portion of the plan and send it to you for review and accuracy. Once all looks good we submit it to your local fire department and you will need to pay the fire safety plan's review and approval fee directly to the fire department.

Inspection

Once we submit the draft to the fire department, the inspector will contact you to schedule a site visit to ensure accuracy of the plan as well as the fire safety systems on site.

Fire Department FSP review fees

*subject to change, additional fees for subsequent reviews may apply

Brampton – $198

Burlington – no fee for initial and hourly $83.62 for subsequent reviews

Guelph – $132.08

Hamilton – no fee

Kingston – review of revisions – Each $206.37

Kitchener – $249.5

Markham – $181.5

Milton – no fee

Mississauga – 49.6 hourly (min. 3 hours) for plans not required under OFC

Niagara Falls – $68.98

Oakville - $67.8 per hour

Oshawa – no charge

Toronto - $441.69 plus HST

Vaughan – $152 initial and 77 subsequent

Waterloo – $74 (per review, per hour)

Welland - $205 plus HST