SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
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Is it allowable to have strobes only and no sirens in a patient care area? EX: recovery room. Thanks for any info on code(s).
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RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
also depends on what you term a patient care area
doctors office, day surg, hospital, mental hospital etc.
life safety, International, some other brand???
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
Another option is to install an alarm with a lower sound level - as long as you maintain the minimum level throughout the room.
If you have regular false alarms and a 24 hour supervised on site system, you can work out with the local fire department a system of delayed alarm annunciation. Typically, this is done with on site security who immediate investigate the alarm and reports to the central location if it is a false alarm or not. If no response with, say, 1 or 2 minutes, the building fire alarm would annunciate. I have seen this work quite well in high-rise office buildings where you do not want to disrupt thousands of workers.
Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
Then you have licensing and insurance requirements that may specify a different standard with no clear ability to seek releif. It could take months to find the person to get the variance.
Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
In my experience a pre-signal system may be required but you haven't told me enough - I've seen pre-op areas near post-recovery areas and the treatments can be different.
Seek professional design assistance.
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
RE: SIRENS AND PATIENT AREAS
Good answer. a little hard to give you a specfic answer without seeing the set up, and still the FM has to approve it in the end