Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Safety to Life: Can Nursing Homes Guarantee It
Recommendations from a 1975 workshop on fire safety in nursing homes are discussed. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the George Washington University and the American Health Care Association (AHCA) as part of a symposium on participative management. Workshop participants agreed that the major life and fire safety problem facing nursing homes is with existing buildings. A program of continuing education and evaluation for agencies that enforce the Life Safety Code, for fire departments, and for design professionals and others was recommended, as was the publication of rationale for any changes in or amendments to existing codes. Other recommendations relate to the linkage of Medicaid and Medicare eligibility to compliance with the Life Safety Code, and to the development of realistic fire emergency situation drills for health care facilities. A debate concerning the adequate level of safety was resolved in a recommendation that the AHCA should develop a life safety from fire goal for health care facilities to reduce fire losses in the United States by 50 percent over 20 years. A realistic approach to the enforcement of retroactive fire code provisions for existing buildings was urged, as was the development of guidelines for alternative means of providing protection against fire. Other recommendations concern recognition of the life safety applications of automatic sprinkler systems, creation of a single DHEW office to deal with fire safety standards and policies, and research directed toward establishing facts on which to base fire safety codes.
Safety to Life: Can Nursing Homes Guarantee It
Recommendations from a 1975 workshop on fire safety in nursing homes are discussed. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the George Washington University and the American Health Care Association (AHCA) as part of a symposium on participative management. Workshop participants agreed that the major life and fire safety problem facing nursing homes is with existing buildings. A program of continuing education and evaluation for agencies that enforce the Life Safety Code, for fire departments, and for design professionals and others was recommended, as was the publication of rationale for any changes in or amendments to existing codes. Other recommendations relate to the linkage of Medicaid and Medicare eligibility to compliance with the Life Safety Code, and to the development of realistic fire emergency situation drills for health care facilities. A debate concerning the adequate level of safety was resolved in a recommendation that the AHCA should develop a life safety from fire goal for health care facilities to reduce fire losses in the United States by 50 percent over 20 years. A realistic approach to the enforcement of retroactive fire code provisions for existing buildings was urged, as was the development of guidelines for alternative means of providing protection against fire. Other recommendations concern recognition of the life safety applications of automatic sprinkler systems, creation of a single DHEW office to deal with fire safety standards and policies, and research directed toward establishing facts on which to base fire safety codes.
Safety to Life: Can Nursing Homes Guarantee It
1976
4 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Environmental & Occupational Factors , Design , Fire safety , HRP/GAJ , HRP/GB , HRP/HH , HRP/SB , HRP/ZJ , HRPGEO/YNO , HRPOCC/XZ , Health care facilities , Nursing homes , Regulations , Reprints , Revisions , Safety hazards
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