Title

Equipment, cabling, and terminations providing Fire and Emergency Services (FES) or evacuation paging systems must be clearly identified and marked. (Cat III impact)

Discussion

All equipment providing emergency life safety services, such as 911 services, must be clearly identified. The availability of Fire and Emergency Services (FES) supporting emergency life safety services such as 911 (or European 112) and emergency evacuation paging services is essential. The specific equipment that handles emergency 911 (112) service must be clearly identified to maintenance and administration personnel. Identification of the transmission equipment, i.e. DS-1 circuit packs and T-1 cross connect ports, should additionally be the focus for identification as well as any terminations occurring at the MDF. This will help to preclude unnecessary service outages due to making wrong system or wiring changes due to unidentified and unmarked systems supporting this function while maintenance and administration personnel perform standard tasks or work nearby which could result in denial of service of emergency services.

Check Content

Inspect the site equipment, cabling, and terminations providing FES or evacuation paging systems and ensure these are clearly identified and marked. If any site equipment, cabling, and terminations providing FES or evacuation paging systems are not clearly identified and marked, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Clearly identify and mark equipment, cabling, and terminations providing FES and evacuation paging systems. Label all equipment, DS-1 circuit packs. T-1 cross connect ports, cables, termination points, and other critical elements handling FES or evacuation paging systems. Additionally, make personnel aware of the presence of FES systems and the consequences of its disruption.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-8431r2_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-7945

Group Title: Emergency equipment marked

Expert Comments

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