Healthcare Fire Safety and Prevention
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Fire Extinguishers
FIRES and EXPLOSIONS
Harry J. Toups LSU Department of Chemical Engineering with significant
material from SACHE 2003 Workshop presentation by Ray French (ExxonMobil)
(ppt)
Duke University Hospital Fire/Life Safety Management Plan 2007
Duke University Hospital (PDF file)
FIRE PREVENTION MANAGEMENT
Stony Brook University Hospital (PDF file)
NFPA Journal
http://www.nfpa.org/journalDetail.asp?categoryID=1517&itemID=36712&src=NFPAJournal
NFPA 99: Standard for Health Care Facilities
http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=99
American Society for Healthcare Engineering
of the American Hospital Association
http://www.ashe.org/ashe/codes/nfpa99/
Hospital Deaths
http://www.apsf.org/resource_center/newsletter/1996/summer/apsfmoss.html
Occupational Safety & Health Administration / Fire Hazards
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/hospital/hazards/fire/fire.html
Fire and Life Safety in Health Care Facilities, 2006 Edition / NFPA Catalogue
http://www.nfpa.org/catalog/
product.asp?pid=FLS06&target_pid=FLS06&src_pid=99HB05&link_type=cross_sell
Safety Systems Limit Hospital Fire Damage - Case Study
Joseph M. Jardin (PDF file)
A Clinician's Guide to Surgical Fires:
how they occur, how to prevent them, how to put them out.
http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=3688&nbr=2914
FIRES ARE AN ISSUE IN SURGERY
ASTM
Office of the Fire Marshal - Ontario
http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/english/default.asp
NFPA 101: Life Safety CodeĈ
http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/aboutthecodes.asp?docnum=101
National Building Code of Canada 2005
http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/pubs/codes/nrcc47666_e.html
Fire Safety Links
Office of the Fire Marshal - Ontario
Skin antiseptics and the risk of operating theatre fires
Allan D. Spigelman and Judith R. Swan
Clinical Governance Unit, Hunter Area Health Service, New South Wales, Australia
The NFPA Diamond
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
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