Fire safety plans

The Ontario Fire Code requires a fire safety plan for certain types of buildings. These plans make sure your building has the necessary systems to keep your building and its occupants safe.

On this page:

1. Buildings that need a fire safety plan
2. Create a fire safety plan

Buildings that need a fire safety plan

Fire safety plans are required for the buildings and spaces listed below.

• hospitals and health care facilities
• nursing homes and children’s custodial homes for more than three people
• residences with more than 10 occupants
• offices with more than 300 occupants
• stores and businesses with more than 300 occupants
• four-storey or taller buildings
• boarding, lodging and rooming houses
• recreational camps regulated under the Health Protection and Promotion Act

Assembly occupancies, which may include:

• places of worship
• restaurants
• shopping malls
• nightclubs
• theatres
• assembly halls

Industrial buildings:

• high hazard with more than 25 occupants
• medium hazard with more than 100 occupants
• low hazard with more than 300 occupants

A detailed definition of an assembly occupancy is available on the National Fire Prevention Association’s website.

Potentially dangerous spaces:

• properties containing more than 500 litres of flammable and combustible liquids
• properties containing more than 250 litres of Class I liquids
• laboratories

Outdoor spaces:

• Outdoor tire storage yards

Create a fire safety plan

To create a fire safety plan:

• complete our template
• email the completed template to the fire prevention team

Send us an email if you have any questions.