Mac’s Safety Space: If starboard is to port, does that make starboardal the opposite of portal?
Hospital Safety Insider, April 14, 2016
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Eventually, I will run out of these, but hopefully not before the EC portal is perfectly populated and otherwise polished off...
Late last week brought the announcement of new material being posted to The Joint Commission's Environment of Care portal, this month's offering focusing on those pesky compliance issues relating to ensuring that building and fire protection features are designed and maintained to minimize the effects of fire, smoke, and heat. The performance elements chosen for additional coverage relate to unprotected openings in fire-rated walls and floors (Can you say "penetrations"? I thought you could!); fire doors have functioning hardware-positive latching, self- or auto-closing-and compliant gaps and undercuts; and making sure that openings in 2-hour fire-rated walls are rated for 1.5 hours.
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