Healthcare Fire Safety and Prevention

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Fire Extinguishers

Hanford Fire Dept.

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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