Fire Safety Resources
Last Updated: April 3, 2024 4:22:51 PM PDT
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Learn about fire and life safety resources at UC San Diego.
If you discover a fire ...
Building evacuation
Campus fire safety requirements
- Barbecue use and storage
- Biological safety cabinets: open flames and flammable gases policy
- Building evacuation procedures
- Corridor safety requirements
- Decorative candles and open flames
- Emergency evacuation for people with disabilities
- Holiday decorating guidelines
- Hot work program
- Laboratory fire safety
- Special events on campus (checklist, permit ...)
Campus housing
- Annual campus housing fire safety report – UC San Diego annually reports on fire safety practices and standards used by on-campus student housing.
- Fire requirements for campus housing
Corridor requirements
Electrical safety
Fire extinguishers
Flammable liquids
Laboratories
- See laboratory fire safety inspections to learn what inspectors look for and how to prepare your lab.
- Biological safety cabinets: open flames and flammable gases policy
- Chemical storage and inventory guidelines & keeping inventories within fire code limits
- Compressed gas
- Corridor safety requirements
- Flammable and combustible liquids
- Pyrophorics and other highly reactive materials
Renovations, alterations, and construction
- Facilities Management
- Renovations and alterations, Capital Planning
Related policy:
- PPM 516-12.1 General Safety Construction / Renovations and Alternations, Environment, Health & Safety
- PPM 530-9 Renovations and Alternations, Facilities Management
Wildfire safety
Questions? Contact the EH&S Fire Safety team.