Eastwood Park Training’s healthcare fire safety expert, Paul Beech, an independent fire safety consultant, and managing director of Fagus Fire Safety Consultancy, raises concerns about the apparent lack of response in healthcare circles to changes in fire safety guidance. Here he focuses on the key changes to HTM 05-01 (2nd edn 2013) and HTM 05-02, the latter updated just over 12 months ago, for those responsible for fire safety in healthcare organisations.
Despite it now being two years since the revision of HTM 05-01: Managing healthcare fire safety, few healthcare organisations appear to have adopted many of the revised recommendations. Why is this the case? We are all under pressure to limit costs, make further savings, or just get so much done, but is there an excuse for not being fully up to date with the latest fire safety guidance? Maybe it is time to think again.
However, before explaining some of the changes to these key Department of Health guidance documents, I will outline what I feel are the essentials for getting fire safety in healthcare organisations right. There are a number of key elements set out in the HTM series necessary to achieve high standards in large healthcare premises. Among the most important are:
Recently revised HTM guidance
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