Caught in a tightening fire safety net.
How the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 has shifted responsibility for hospital fire safety from local fire authorities to so-called "responsible persons", and the implications for senior management/board-level personnel, as well as for hospital fire officers, fire wardens and department managers charged with implementation, was expertly examined by a leading expert in fire law at May's National Association of Healthcare Fire Officers (NAHFO) 2008 conference in Nottingham. Jonathan Baillie reports.
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D005390:Fires / Q000517:prevention & control*; D033161:Government Regulation; D006783:Hospitals, State; D017751:Safety Management; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom