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Ghaith presents to the Ontario Hospital Fire Marshals Group:  Health Care Facility Retrofit & Life Safety Studies  

Written by Ghaith Qamheiah | Mar 27, 2018 9:19:08 PM

Ghaith Qamheiah (President) and Rudy Cronk (Vice President) chaired a presentation titled “Ontario Fire Code (OFC) – Part 9: Health Care Facility Retrofit & Life Safety Studies”.  This presentation was given to the Hospital Fire Marshals Group during their quarterly meeting on March 20, 2018. Aimed towards hospitals, focused primarily on the requirements, compliance expectation and approaches brought upon by Part 9 of the OFC. This part of code applies to buildings that were in existence on February 11, 1987 and upgrading them through retrofit to meet the minimum performance requirements for life safety.

Other Topic discussed included:

  • OFC Schedule Compliance
  • Containment
  • Means of egress
  • Fire alarm and detection
  • Suppression
  • Life safety studies
  • Acceptable level
  • PLC Approach to Methodology
  • PLC Approach to Technical Resolution

The PowerPoint Presentation is available for download.

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