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Cost-Effective Methods for Achieving Compliance to Firesafety Codes
The identification of cost-effective levels of fire safety in health care facilities is a major concern to hospital administrators, fire safety engineers and public policy makers. The prohibitive costs of strict compliance to the prescriptive provisions of the Life Safety Code in hospitals and nursing homes has led to the development of an equivalency methodology, the Fire Safety Evaluation System. The equivalency methodology provides a means for identifying how combinations of several widely accepted fire safety systems can be used to produce a level of safety equal to that of the prescriptive provisions of the Life Safety Code. Three topics are described briefly in this paper. They are: (1) the Fire Safety Evaluation System; (2) a computerized version of the Fire Safety Evaluation System which permits the least-cost means of achieving compliance to the Life Safety Code to be identified; and (3) an indication of the cost-saving potential of the Fire Safety Evaluation System based on a case study of a typical general hospital.
Cost-Effective Methods for Achieving Compliance to Firesafety Codes
The identification of cost-effective levels of fire safety in health care facilities is a major concern to hospital administrators, fire safety engineers and public policy makers. The prohibitive costs of strict compliance to the prescriptive provisions of the Life Safety Code in hospitals and nursing homes has led to the development of an equivalency methodology, the Fire Safety Evaluation System. The equivalency methodology provides a means for identifying how combinations of several widely accepted fire safety systems can be used to produce a level of safety equal to that of the prescriptive provisions of the Life Safety Code. Three topics are described briefly in this paper. They are: (1) the Fire Safety Evaluation System; (2) a computerized version of the Fire Safety Evaluation System which permits the least-cost means of achieving compliance to the Life Safety Code to be identified; and (3) an indication of the cost-saving potential of the Fire Safety Evaluation System based on a case study of a typical general hospital.
Cost-Effective Methods for Achieving Compliance to Firesafety Codes
R. E. Chapman (author)
1979
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
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