ActivFire - Active fire protecton equipment listing scheme
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The CSIRO, is responsible for the maintenance and administration of the ActivFire® Scheme and maintaining the Register of Fire Protection Equipment.
The ActivFire Register of Fire Protection Equipment is referenced in the BCA Volume One, under Section A2.2 Evidence of Suitability.
Objectives of ActivFire®
The objectives of the CSIRO ActivFire® Scheme for certification and listing of active fire protection equipment includes the following outcomes:
- To verify the conformity (compliance) of equipment through physical testing and appraisal to relevant and endorsed standards and specifications (reference criteria).
- To verify and recognise approvals and certifications by other national and international bodies.
- To provide an effective and transparent mechanism for appraisal, testing, certification and listing of emerging and new technologies in the field of active fire protection equipment and systems.
- To provide reference documentation and information which supports the various building regulation and authority requirements for "Evidence of Suitability" for equipment used in building construction.
- To maintain a continuing process that provides means by which the conformity of changes to products can be submitted and verified.
- To maintain a Register of Fire Protection Equipment to publicly list and promulgate, products which meet established reference criteria for listing.
Certification classifications
Certification classifications are non-hierarchical groupings of products according to the source or process from which conformity has been verified. They also enable the progressive migration of products, as the scope of our accreditation is applied and extended.
- CPA
- Certified Product Approval: certification and registration of products, verified by the conformity assessment scheme, as meeting specified requirements included within the current scope of JAS-ANZ accreditation.
- LPA
- Listed Product Approval: listing and registration of products, verified by the conformity assessment scheme, as meeting specified requirements which are not included within the current scope of JAS-ANZ accreditation or which are in the process to being migrated to product certification standards which are included within the current scope of JAS-ANZ accreditation.
- RPA
- Recognised Product Approval: listing and registration of products, verified by the conformity assessment scheme, as meeting specified requirements based upon recognition and evidence of verification of conformity issued by a recognised conformity assessment body.
