Fire Safety Information

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Fire Safety Information

• Clinical Orientation
• Students to Read

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Things to Think About

• Each facility has an evacuation plan posted in
  the hallways
• Upon learning the facility LOOK at the evacuation
  plan to know where to locate
• Exits
• Extinguishers
• Fire alarms
• Oxygen shut off valves
• Fire doors

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Fire Doors?

• Fire doors are solid doors that separate areas of
  the hospital and contain a fire to one smaller
  area
• They are usually in corridors and close
  automatically when an alarm is activated
• Fire doors should always remain unobstructed so
  they can close!
• Be sure no wheelchairs, etc in the path of the
  door

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What to Do

• Upon the detection of smoke or fire
• Follow the RACE plan

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R-A-C-E

• Rescue
• Rescue/Remove person(s) from the immediate fire
  scene/room.
• Alert
• Alert personnel by activating the nearest fire
  alarm pull station and call the facility operator
  to report the exact location of the fire.
• Confine
• Confine fire and smoke by closing all doors in
  the area.
• Extinguish
• Extinguish a small fire by using a portable fire
  extinguisher or use to escape from a large fire.
• Evacuate the area immediately
• This may mean to another corridor, on the other
  side of fire doors or out an exit depending on
  the patients location (check evacuation plan in
  facility)

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Activate RACE before using an extinguisher

• Fire extinguishers used on the medical campus are
  only to be used after the R-A-C-E fire plan has
  been followed.
• All personnel should know the location and types
  of fire extinguishers in their area and know
  howto use them.

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Extinguishers
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Using a Fire Extinguisher
How to use a fire extinguisher The acronym
P-A-S-S is used to describe the four-step process
in operating a fire extinguisher.

• Pull
• Pull the safety pin on the extinguisher.
• Aim
• Aim the hose of the extinguisher at the base of
  the fire.
• Squeeze
• Squeeze the handle to discharge the material.
• Sweep
• Sweep the hose across the base of the fire from
  side to side.