Medical - Fire Safety and Patient Evacuation
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.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 22 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English
Course Outline
- Fire Prevention and Containment
- Fire Response
- Evacuation
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 -- 1910.38 Emergency action plans
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning -- 1910.39 Fire prevention plans
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning --1910.35 Compliance with alternate exit-route codes
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart L-- Fire Protection -- 1910.157 Portable fire extinguishers
- 29 CFR 1910.36 Subpart E -- Exit Routes and Emergency Planning -- 1910.36 Design and construction requirements for exit routes