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DIN Standards Committee Firefighting and Fire Protection

About FNFW

The Firefighting and Fire Protection Standards Committee (FNFW) has developed from the "Department for standardization of firefighting equipment in the Standards Committee of the German Industry" which was founded back in the year 1920.  

According to the structure of the International and the European Standardization, it is today divided into five branches, some of which have assigned their special tasks to individual working committees.

FNFW carries out the standardization work required in its domain, in fact on the national, European and International level. Its activities are focussed especially in the field of fire protection, disaster control, preventive fire protection, technical support and crisis management.

The Responsibility of FNFW ranges from the standardization of fire service equipment to firefighting and rescue service vehicles, fire detection and fire alarm systems, fixed and mobile firefighting systems and fire extinguishing equipment to the construction and facilities for fire stations, and furthermore, the domain of Societal security.

In order to take the increasingly important European and International Standardization of firefighting and fire protection equipment into due account, the working committees on the European and International level are cooperating very intensely with the following committees of CEN:

  • CEN/TC 70 "Manual means of fire fighting equipment";
  • CEN/TC 72 "Fire detection and fire alarm systems";
  • CEN/TC 158/WG 3 "Fire fighting helmets";
  • CEN/TC 191 "Fixed firefighting systems";
  • CEN/TC 192 "Fire service equipment";
  • CEN/TC 391 "Societal and Citizen Security"

ISO-committees:

  • ISO/TC 21 "Equipment for fire protection and fire fighting";
  • ISO/TC 94/SC 14 "Fire-fighters' personal equipment";
  • ISO/TC 223 "Societal Security";
  • ISO/TMB/SAG S "Strategic Advisory Group on Security"

In addition to this, an especially close cooperation is maintained with the following national standards committees at DIN:

  • Valves standards committee (NAA);
  • Road Vehicle Engineering Standards Committee (NAAutomobil);
  • Building and civil engineering standards committee (NABau);
  • German commission for electrical, electronic and information technologies of DIN and VDE (DKE);
  • Optics and precision mechanics standards committee (NAFuO);
  • Heating and Cooking Equipment Standards Committee (FNH);
  • Timber and Furniture Standards Committee (NHM);
  • Personal protective equipment standards committee (NPS);
  • First aid services and hospital standards committee (NARK);
  • Railway standardisation committee (FSF);
  • Shipbuilding and Marine Technology Standards Committee (NSMT);
  • Safety design principles standards committee (NASG);
  • Tank installations standards committee (NATank);
  • Fundamental Technical Standards Committee (NATG);
  • Water practice standards committee (NAW).

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New projects
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DIN EN 14972-1/A1 2024-03-14 Fixed firefighting systems - Water mist systems - Part 1: Design, installation, inspection and maintenance More  Comment 
DIN EN 14972-13 2024-03-14 Fixed firefighting systems - Water mist systems - Part 13: Test protocol for wet benches and similar processing equipment for open nozzle systems (14972-13) More  Comment 
DIN EN 17450-3 2024-03-11 Fixed firefighting systems - Water mist systems - Part 3: Requirements and test methods for check valves More  Comment 

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Current Draft Standards
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DIN 14700 2024-05 Firefighting and fire protection - CAN interface for devices in emergency vehicles; Text in English More 
DIN EN 13565-1/A1 2024-05 Fixed firefighting systems - Foam systems - Part 1: Requirements and test methods for components; German and English version EN 13565-1:2019/prA1:2024 More 
DIN 14502-2 2024-04 Firefighting and rescue service vehicles - Part 2: Additional provisions to DIN EN 1846-2 and DIN EN 1846-3 (Proposal for a European Standard) More 

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DIN 14151-3 2024-04 Standard Rescue cushions - Part 3: Jumping cushion type 16 - Requirements, testing More  Order from Beuth Verlag
DIN 14090 2024-02 Standard Areas for the fire brigade on premises More  Order from Beuth Verlag
DIN 14095 2024-02 Standard Ground plans for components for buildings for fire brigade use More  Order from Beuth Verlag

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