Hospital's fire safety fixes to cost millions

A recent report says fire safety failures stretching back years have the potential to put staff and patients at 'intolerable risk'


Fire safety failures at Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary in the U.K. are so serious that it will cost nearly £14m to correct them, according to an article on the News and Star website.

A recent report says fire safety failures stretching back years have the potential to put staff and patients at 'intolerable risk.'

The faults found include:

• Faulty fire safety doors with gaps that would allow smoke to pour from wards to the hospital atrium

• Wrongly labelled 30-minute fire doors used in a ward that should have had 60-minute fire doors

• A defective fire alarm system, which has prompted hourly fire safety checks by staff

Read the article.

 

 



October 19, 2015


Topic Area: Safety


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