Q126: What are the general fire safety requirements for hospitals?

(1) building and safety evacuation

①New large and medium-sized hospital building fire-resistance rating of not less than one or two; small hospitals should not be less than three.

② In the building layout, the hospital staff quarters and cafeteria, should be separated from the wards.

3 in the original brick structure of the house, set up the installation of valuable medical equipment, such as CT scanners and X-ray machines, etc., must take fire separation measures, separate from other parts.

④Based on the poor mobility of the patients themselves and the need for others to assist in the emergency evacuation of this feature, the hospital's stairs, passages and other safety evacuation facilities must be more spacious than other units of the building.

(2) electrical equipment and fire facilities

①Installation of electrical equipment must be installed by the official electrician in accordance with the specification requirements for reasonable installation, the electrician should be regularly on the electrical equipment, switches and circuits to check, where it does not meet the safety requirements should be promptly repaired or replaced. Not allowed to pull temporary wires.

②Therapeutic infrared, spectrum instrumentation and other electrical heating devices, not close to the curtains, bedding and other combustible materials, and there should be a person responsible for the management, cut off the power supply after use, to ensure safety.

3 hospital radiology, pathology, operating room, pharmacy and power distribution room and other departments, should be equipped with appropriate fire extinguishers.

④The high-rise hospital shall install automatic alarm and fire extinguishing system as well as fire prevention and extinguishing facilities such as smoke extraction equipment, fire doors, fire shutters, fire hydrants, etc. with reference to the relevant provisions of the Code for Fire Protection in Building Design (GB 50016-2014) so that the ability of self-defense and self-help can be strengthened.

(3) Management of open flames

①Fire should be strictly controlled in the hospital, and smoking is prohibited in wards, outpatient rooms as well as examination and treatment rooms and pharmacies.

②Heating furnace should be unified point, designated by the person in charge of management.

③ treatment of contaminated cotton, bandages, and the incinerator after the surgery of the discarded material, must choose a safe place to set up, managed by a person to prevent the ignition of combustible materials around.

④ hospital morgue should strengthen fire management, to clean up the death of patients in a timely manner to change clothes, not piled up in the morgue; patient's family members in accordance with the old custom of burning paper in memory of the deceased, to strengthen the work of publicity and education, and strengthen the discouragement.