Fire safety training for hospitals and healthcare
Hospitals are designed so that most patients never need to leave the building in a fire. Compartments, fire doors, dampers and detection carry that strategy. Estates teams and contractors working on them need to know the Firecode as well as their trade.
What's different in hospitals and healthcare
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Patients stay in the building
Progressive horizontal evacuation moves patients into the next compartment, and sometimes the one after. The compartment line is the plan, so every penetration through it matters.
- 02
Firecode sets the standard
NHS premises work to the HTM 05 series. Contractors are expected to know it, and estates teams will ask what their people have been trained to.
- 03
Services everywhere
Hospital ceilings are packed with ductwork, cabling and medical gas pipes. Fire dampers and penetration seals get disturbed more often here than in most buildings.
- 04
Nothing goes offline casually
Isolating a zone on an occupied ward needs a permit, a plan and someone to put it back. Engineers need to be confident with that process.
Courses for hospitals and healthcare
Online courses help you evidence knowledge. Practical courses are assessed in person, so they evidence knowledge and skills.
Courses for hospitals and healthcare are on the way
What you'll be working to
The legislation, standards and guidance that come up most often in hospitals and healthcare. Each course page says which ones it covers.
- HTM 05-01: Managing healthcare fire safety
- HTM 05-02: Guidance in support of functional provisions
- HTM 05-03: Operational provisions
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- BS 5839-1: fire detection and fire alarm systems
- BS 9999: fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings
Training a team in hospitals and healthcare?
Buy places for your whole team in one order, or ask us to run a course at your site, planned around the people who use the building.