Fire Safety in Health Care Premises
This module is aimed at giving guidance on HTM 05 “Guidance in support of functional provisions (Fire safety in the design of healthcare premises)”
Module 11.1
This module will look at the following issues
- Aims of HTM
- Functional requirements of Building Regulations
- Regulation 38
- Relationship with CDM
- Certification schemes
- Evacuation from hospitals
- Fire drills
- Dependancy of patients
- Specific design requirements
- Dependancy of patients
- Specific design requirements
- Means of escape
- Security
- Escape lighting
- Internal fire spread
- Fire stopping
- External fire spread
- Fixed suppression
- Ventilation systems
- Case studies
- Hazards with oxygen