From Mac’s Safety Space: Watching the detectors
Hospital Safety Insider, June 21, 2012
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This week’s topic of conversation is the fascinating story of having smoke detectors in staff sleep rooms, and how TJC is surveying things at the moment.
So, a bit of background. Generally speaking, chapter 19, the existing healthcare occupancy chapter of the Life Safety Code (NFPA 101 – 2000) does not specifically require the installation of smoke detectors in physician sleeping rooms that are within the healthcare occupancy. It is also the case that physician sleeping rooms in other occupancies, particularly Hotels and Dormitories, would certainly indicate the need for smoke detection.
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