Are you worried about passing your next healthcare facility survey? If so, Oval Brand’s innovative fire extinguishers enable easy compliance with the Life Safety Code and 4 inch projecting object limits, as now required by CMS.

Last year CMS required all healthcare facilities which receive CMS funding to follow both the 2012 edition of the NFPA-101 Life Safety Code and the ADA. Many health care facilities may have fire extinguishers which are currently non-compliant and have begun failing surveys for the new CMS requirements. Here at Oval Brand, inquiries and sales for our low-profile fire extinguishers have grown significantly over the last few months to remedy the problem.

Oval Brand’s low-profile fire extinguishers are the only extinguishers which may be surface mounted in the corridors of many healthcare facilities while maintaining compliance with both the NFPA-101 Life Safety Code (2012 edition) and ADA. Only Oval Brand extinguishers project less than 4 inches when surface mounted. Plus, Oval’s patented hook nearly guarantees that they do not fall off the wall when bumped into.

A facility may be told by surveyors and fire extinguisher technicians that they need to install recessed extinguisher cabinets to remedy the 4” projection limit in corridors. However, many are not being told about Oval Brand’s extinguishers being a compliant solution as well, simply because our low-profile extinguishers are new to the market. Oval Brand wants to let everyone know that there is a much cleaner, quicker, and lower cost option available. To achieve compliance, retrofitting recessed cabinets is not necessary when Oval’s low-profile fire extinguishers can be surface mounted.

If there is any confusion on whether the limit for non-continuous projections is 4” or 6”, please visit the following rule from CMS which explains that the ADA must also be followed in addition to NFPA-101 (2012): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/04/2016-10043/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-fire-safety-requirements-for-certain-health-care-facilities.

Oval Brand is here to help you and your facilities achieve compliance. Quick, clean, and easy.