Policy

Policy, through the Department of the Interior as well as the National Park Service, assists the structural fire program in accomplishing a complex mission safely.

• Structural Fire Department Manuals
• Structural Fire Director's Orders
• Structural Fire Reference Manuals
• Structural Fire Handbooks and Guidelines

Departmental Manuals

• Departmental Manual, Safety Management
  Part 485, Chapter 19—Fire Safety
  Specifies the minimum program requirements for protecting Departmental and public property and persons from the adverse effects of fires.
• Departmental Manual, Safety Management
  Part 485, Chapter 20—Personal Protective Equipment
  Specifies the minimum Safety and Occupational Health Program (Program) requirements for the selection, issuance, use, maintenance, and storage of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Departmental Manual, Safety Management
  Part 485, Chapter 6—Inspections and Abatements
  Specifies the minimum program requirements for conducting formal inspections of establishments and timely abatement of identified hazards.
• Departmental Manual, Administrative Services
  Part 310, Chapter 11—Smoking in Public Buildings
  Prohibits the smoking of all tobacco products in the interior space of all facilities occupied by the Department of the Interior.
• Departmental Manual, Property Management
  Part 411, Chapter 3—Standards for Managing Museum Property
  States the Department's professional standards for managing museum property.

Director's Orders

• Director's Orders #58—Structural Fire Management
  The purpose of this Director's Order is to provide more detailed interpretation of the structural fire policy articulated in National Park Service Management Policies 2006 by setting forth the operational policies and procedures necessary to establish and implement structural fire management programs throughout the National Park System.
• Director's Orders #57—Occupational Medical Standards, Health and Fitness
  Referenced in RM #58 related to medical and physical fitness requirements to be certified by the NPS Structural Fire Program to perform fire suppression duties.
• Director's Order #24—NPS Museum Collection Management
  This Director's Order provides further policy guidance, standards, and requirements for preserving, protecting, documenting, and providing access to, and use of, NPS museum collections.
• Director's Order #20—Agreements
  The purpose of this Director's Order is to: (1) establish NPS policies and procedures for administering agreements; (2) identify and describe the types of agreements that the NPS enters into with Federal and non-Federal entities; (3) identify and describe the responsibilities and functions of NPS officials in administering agreements; and (4) affirm the NPS's commitment to comply with the regulations, policies and procedures imposed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Executive Orders (E.O.), the Department of the Interior (DOI) regulations and other applicable governmental laws and regulations.
• Director's Order #18—Wildland Fire Management
  This Director's Order states the basic principles and strategic guidelines governing the management of wildland fire by the National Park Service (NPS).

Reference Manuals

• Release of RM 58 Memo—March 24, 2004
  Memo related to Structural Fire Management Reference Manual
• Reference Manual 58—Structural Fire Management
• Reference Manual 57—Occupational Medical Standards, Health and Fitness
  Structural firefighters are subject to the standards in this chapter of the reference manual.
• Reference Manual 18—Wildland Fire Management
  Represents the most detailed and comprehensive guidance on implementing Service-wide wildland fire management policy for the National Park Service.

Handbooks and Guidelines

• Museum Handbook
  Supplemental to Director's Order 24
• Cultural Resource Management Guideline
  Chapter 4, page 49—Structure Fire
• Agreements Handbook
  The Agreements Handbook covers policy, procedures, samples, and formats for NPS Agreements.