Passive Fire and Smoke Best Practices for Effective Barrier Management
Firestopping is crucial for hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgicenters, and other outpatient facilities. Their “defend-in-place” strategy protects patients, and residents, who cannot easily be removed from a facility in an emergency. Occupants incapable of self-preservation can be in more danger, so it is vital that a healthcare organization’s firestop management plan is efficient, and solutions are in place to save lives.
This SOP establishes procedures and performance requirements to ensure that a healthcare facility contains code-compliant barriers from initial design concepts through construction and on through the maintenance lifecycle of the facility and its successful future evolution.