Safety improvements ordered for hospitals after arson attack

Entire staff will receive face-to-face fire safety training


Forty-eight safety improvements have been ordered at Staffordshire’s biggest hospital by the end of the year after an arson attack spread smoke around the complex, according to an article on the Stoke Sentinel website.

Around two-thirds of the upgrades have already been completed to make sure the Royal Stoke University Hospital in the U.K. can now cope with a serious blaze.

Actions ordered by Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service  included work to stop smoke spreading, tighter procedures during major incidents and face-to-face fire safety training for all staff. More than 7,200 workers have received the training, with the remaining 17 per cent of the workforce to be trained this year.

Firefighters had raised concerns over fire doors being ‘wedged open’ and the ‘inappropriate storage of combustibles on corridors’ following the arson attack.

Read the article.



August 7, 2018


Topic Area: Safety


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