Fire Safety - strategies, tips and insights for the healthcare facilities management industry

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Fire Breaks Out at Chino Valley Medical Center, Prompting Evacuations

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Barrier Management: Strategies and Tactics

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Healthcare Maintenance in the Digital Age

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Sprinkler System Limits Fire Spread at Massachusetts General Hospital

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The Digital Path to Streamlining Code Compliance

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Emory University Midtown Hospital Experiences Electrical Fire

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Compliance Strategies for Fire Safety 

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Identifying Fire Hazards in Healthcare Facilities

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Mount Sinai Catches Fire, 6 Injured

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What Can Cause Fire Sprinklers and Alarms to Not Function?

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What Fire Sprinklers and Alarms are the Best for Hospitals?

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Fires Spread at Local Hospitals, One Man Arrested

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When to Perform Maintenance on Fire Alarms and Sprinklers

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29 Dead After Hospital Fire in Beijing

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How Fire Safety Drills Differ for Healthcare Facilities

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3 Misconceptions About Healthcare Fire Safety

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Brockton Hospital to Remain Close for Three Months

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Fire Breaks Out at Brockton Hospital

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How Digital Codes and Standards Are Affecting Healthcare Infrastructure

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Fire Damper Testing

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Corrective Maintenance Work

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Evacuation Route Maps

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Storage Rooms

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Does an Actual Alarm Count as a Fire Drill?

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Q&A: Battery-operated emergency lights for ATS?

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Q&A: Storing a single oxygen cylinder in a dental clinic

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Medical gas system testing frequency

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Monitoring fire pump power supply

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: GFCI receptacles

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Protecting senior care staff and residents in case of fire

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: MRI smoke detectors

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Fire damper testing in surgery centers

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Storage of flammable liquids (Part 3)

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Storage of flammable liquids (Part 2)

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Storage of flammable liquids (Part 1)

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Does your fire alarm system need an opgrade or replacement?

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Cladding to be removed at Oxford's Churchill and Children's hospitals

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Protect Jobsites With Surface Shields’ New Fire-Resistant Floor Protector and Seam Tape

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Fire extinguishers

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Maintaining life safety compliance in healthcare facilities

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Clothes irons

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Sprinkler obstructions

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Fire extinguishers

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Test, inspect, maintain: Fire suppression system priorities

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Safety improvements ordered for hospitals after arson attack

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Regulations, Codes & Standards Q&A: Contiguous facilities

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National code review urged after Idaho nursing home burns

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Idaho care facilities sprinkler system failed during fire

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Life Safety Q&A: Exiting from hospital into medical building

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Life Safety Q&A: Time allowed for repairs

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Dublin hospital ordered to install sprinkler system

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Hot cleaning rags ignite at California nursing home

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Fire at Ohio hospital forces evacuation, closing

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Life Safety Q&A: Stairwell exit locked door

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Most hospital surveys this year show trouble with certain fire hazard provisions

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Life Safety Q&A: Fire drills in a hospital

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Life Safety Q&A: Fire-rated door assemblies

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Oxford hospital closes trauma unit over cladding safety fears

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CMS extends deadline for smoke barrier door inspections and tests

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Trauma unit closed over fire safety concerns

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Patient killed, nurses injured in Pa. hospital patient room fire

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Three hospitals fail fire safety checks after London tower fire

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Checklist for protecting your healthcare facility

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NFPA casts final votes on healthcare, life safety code changes

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Q&A: Doctor sleep rooms

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CMS interprets emergency departments to be healthcare occupancies

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Experts concerned about the potential fire hazard with hyperbaric chambers

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Missouri long-term care facility fire injures resident

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Q&A: Doors wedged open

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Limerick hospital fire safety lapses spur threats of legal action

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Q&A: Converting a cath lab procedure room to storage

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James Golinveaux Named President and CEO of The Viking Group

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Q&A: Temporary construction barrier

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New COIN Specific Application Sprinkler Offers 16’ x 16’ Coverage for Combustible Interstitial Spaces

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Q&A: Annual test on fire rated door assemblies

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Hospital smoking bans results in fewer fires

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Q&A: Firefighter emergency phones

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Q&A: Annual fire pump test

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Investigators searching for cause of fire in vacant building at Mass. hospital

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Webcast — New Requirements, New Challenges: The 2012 Life Safety Code

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Q&A: Quarterly fire drills

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Kentec Protects Top Cambridge Biolab Facility

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Q&A: Combustible decorations

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Keeping healthcare facility safety equipment and alarm systems compliant

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Q&A: Standards regarding environmental rounds

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Elderly patients moved from U.K. hospital ward over fire safety fears

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Balancing privacy with safety

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Q&A: Two releasing devices for doors

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Input sought on increasing the allowable smoke compartment in hospitals

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U.K. hospital withholds loan payments over fire issues

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Accreditation surveys offer lessons in compliance

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U.K. hospital vows action over fire safety lapses

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Interpreting the Life Safety Code

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Fire-rated door frame Q&A

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Many nursing homes still lack sprinklers

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Healthcare systems move away from flame retardants in furniture

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Flammable liquid storage Q&A

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Complying with proposed fire safety regulation changes

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Are you ready for the new 2012 Life Safety Code?

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Life Safety Code for IT closets

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New CMS regulations could mean changes for healthcare facilities

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Fire alarm system Q&A

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Fire extinguisher cabinet Q&A

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Largest U.S. health system will stop buying flame-retardant furniture

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South Korean hospital fire kills 21

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Clarifying proposed changes to smoke compartment size requirements

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Fire dampers Q&A

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Life Safety Code updates encourage homelike environments

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New fire safety regs proposed for hospitals

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Most common hospital fire code violations

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Streamlining life safety system inspections

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Manitoba creates fire safety task force for personal care homes

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Manitoba won't make sprinkler systems mandatory in care facilities

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Fire damper requirements in rated walls

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Fire safety a constant focus at Vancouver nursing homes

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Facilities focus on fire safety after Quebec fire

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CMS proposal for annual generator test for healthcare facilities flawed

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Dozens feared dead after Quebec nursing home fire

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Fire safety improvement linked to codes and enforcement

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Unlocking the code of fire safety initiating devices

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Unlocking the code to fire safety equipment compliance

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Most Wisconsin nursing homes meet mandate to boost fire safety

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Hundreds of nursing homes still lack fire sprinklers

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NY health care workers get fire safety training

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Updated Life Safety Code waiver rule allows bigger trash cans

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New federal rule highlighted after sprinkler system saves nursing home residents

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ICC safety code updates have big impact on hospitals

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