I’m putting the finishing touches on my lunch and learn presentation for this Thursday, September 29th (1 PM Eastern). If you work with health care facilities in any capacity, this virtual session will help keep you up to date on some of the code requirements specific to these occupancies. I’m presenting the class for the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), but it is open to anyone who would like to attend. Here is some more info:
The model codes used in the U.S. include several requirements that are specific to health care facilities, and with new editions of the codes introduced every three years, it can be difficult to keep up with the mandates of the adopted codes and referenced standards. Whether it’s corridor doors leading to patient rooms, double egress pairs in smoke barriers, or controlled egress locks to deter elopement, having an understanding of these code requirements is crucial to ensuring that a health care facility’s doors are code-compliant. This lunch and learn will cover some of these areas of the codes and standards that affect health care facilities, with time for Q&A, and additional resources provided to refer to after the session.
For more information about this presentation, and to register, click here.
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I would mention that people need to read the information on panic/fire rated hardware. I worked for 35 years as the person in charge of the maintenance crews and always a member of the safety committee. In two of three healthcare buildings, including some older and some newer, I found a misunderstanding of the difference between panic and fire rated hardware. In one building I found fire rated hardware on the exterior doors of the utility plant and unfortunately, the same number of doors that should have been fire rated with the improperly install panic hardware meant for the fire doors. To me, this was easy to catch because fire rated hardware cannot have access to any device to restrain the hardware, to dog it open.
I will include that, Jerry!
– Lori