Medical - Fire Safety and Patient Evacuation Overview
Learning objectives
- Identify fire prevention and containment techniques that you and your employer may use to help reduce the risk that a fire will ignite and spread at your facility
- Describe actions that you and your employer should take in response to a fire, including how to use a fire extinguisher
- Recognize the components of an emergency action plan, and describe how to protect, and if necessary evacuate, patients from a fire
Course overview
This lesson will make you aware of the responsibilities that you and your employer have for safely preventing and responding to a fire at the health care facility where you work. In addition, you will learn how to correctly select and use a fire extinguisher to safely contain and extinguish a fire, how to protect yourself, your coworkers, patients, and health care facility visitors in the event of a fire related emergency, and how to follow your employer's emergency action and evacuation plans.
- 10 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English
Course Outline
- Medical - Fire Safety and Patient Evacuation Overview
Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning -- 1910.34 Coverage and Definitions
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning --1910.35 Compliance with alternate exit-route codes
- 29 CFR 1910.36 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning -- 1910.36 Design and construction requirements for exit routes
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning -- 1910.38 Emergency action plans
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning -- 1910.39 Fire prevention plans
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart L-- Fire Protection -- 1910.157 Portable fire extinguishers