Aims of Five Principles of Fire Safety

The Coalition directed that IFSS-CP shall: 

• Serve the public interest
• Be primarily concerned with life safety from fire, but, where practicable, also aim to limit or prevent the loss of Buildings
• Establish a common set of internationally accepted, performance-based Common Principles for fire safety and
• Create a framework that will allow comparisons to be made on a like-for-like basis across countries. 

The Coalition advocates that the adoption of IFSS-CP will amongst other things:

• Protect people in and around Buildings
• Provide safe access and egress for firefighters
• Allow for harmonization of Common Principles and good practice
• Be accessible to all relevant parties, commensurate with allowing robust comparisons to be made
• Complement local and regional standards wherever possible
• Accommodate the need for periodic innovation, refinement, updating and changes 
• Recommend a standard reporting format, where appropriate
• Support the development of consistent language and terminology for the worldwide and increasingly mobile professions involved in fire safety
• Enable global comparisons and benchmarking and provide a system benchmark for international best practice
• Inform the development and review of government policy and
• Support education and training in fire safety and fire safe design and construction to increase awareness among the population. 

In practice, it is expected that IFSS-CP shall be adopted incrementally and systematically and that it is capable of being used in all markets and jurisdictions in conjunction with existing regulations and associated standards.