HTM: Healthcare Premises

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Target audience

Fire safety officers, inspectors, fire engineers, building control officers, risk assessors, building managers, fire safety professionals, hospital fire safety managers and advisers.

Aim

To provide delegates with a knowledge of the Firecode series so they can apply them to design, management and use of healthcare premises.

Core Topic Areas

On course completion, delegates should have an understanding of:

• Health Technical Memorandums (HTMs) series
• HTM 05.01: Managing healthcare fire safety
• HTM 05.02: Functional provisions in healthcare
• HTM 05.03: Part A General Fire Safety
• HTM 05.03: Part D Commercial enterprises
• Lessons from previous hospital case studies
• Responding to a 3-storey hospital ward extension
• Assessing suitability of a Hospital Fire Policy
• Audit planning for healthcare premises

The course focuses on:

• Firecode Guides: Functional provision in healthcare
• Application of Firecode Guides to design, fire risk assessment and auditing of healthcare premises
• Areas include geriatric, secure mental health, infectious diseases, obstetrics and gynaecology. Day surgeries, clinics, pharmacy, outpatients, radiotherapy, operating theatres, administration blocks and shops.