The article summed up the activities of employees of the Saint Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia in the part of works on creation of new projects and improving institute of effective normative documents in the field of fire safety. According to the results of research and theses there are proposed: a) drafts of set of rules and the Annex to GOST R 22.7.01-99 by definition of a rational number of work stations and lines of communication in the change dispatching system; b) draft Annex to set of rules 11.13130.2009 by definition of the locations of fire departments in the regions and adjustment of areas of departure; c) proposals on revised calculations of hydraulic networks of outdoor and indoor fire water supply system, and automatic installations of fire extinguishing; d) study on the development of rules of checking the fire safety of rail transport and changes in set of rules 153.13130.2009 in terms of fire safety requirements for railway transport infrastructure; e) draft of guidelines on actions of the operational units in extinguishing fires and conducting rescue works in Zoological parks. The adoption and use in practice the proposed changes to the regulatory framework of fire protection will reduce the risk of fire and impact hazards to securable objects and people. An important feature of the development is to maximize accessibility for a wide range of experts in the field of fire safety. To this end, developed draft of set of rules and applications to existing standard NYM documents were provided with examples of calculation. The main provisions of the developed methods were used in the educational process of the university, regularly published (including in the journal “Pozharovzryvobezopasnost”) and were reported on international and departmental conferences. This allowed us to take into account the comments and suggestions of specialists.