1. What is passive fire protection? Describe.

- Consists of products installed in a building to improve its safety, the products may be part of
the fabric of the building or they may be added to the building to enhance its fire
performance. PFP is used to safeguard people and limit damage to buildings and their
contents, it does this by;
 Limiting the spread of fire and smoke
 Protecting escape routes
 Protecting the building structure
- PFP products include fire doors, fire resisting walls, floors and ceilings, fire resisting ducts
and dampers, fire stopping and fire protection for structural members.

2. What is active fire protection? Describe.

- Is the process of protecting a building or structure from fire with methods that use the
action of moving parts. These systems can be automatic or operated manually but they
require some sort of action in order to work. A couple of examples of active fire protection
would be building sprinkler systems and fire alarm systems, these systems are an extremely
important part of protecting property in the lives of the people within.
- An important factor that AFP systems share is that they involve action of some kind, some
examples of these actions include, slowing the progress of fire, putting out the fire or
notifying a fire and smoke conditions, this is in contrast to PFP.