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Fire Safety Precautions and Engineering (SFPN 00-02 and SHTM 81 ARCHIVED)

Published on 01 July 2017

From: Health Facilities Scotland

(Archived) Scottish Health Technical Memorandum 81 Parts 1, 2 and 3: Fire precautions for new premises, fire engineering and atria guidance.

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This series provides recommendations and guidance, additional to the statutory requirements of the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004, as amended. It recognises the need for a higher standard of fire safety precautions in the design of healthcare premises for the protection of patients from fire in the in-patient care areas of hospitals, and other treatment facilities.

  • Part 1: fire precautions in new healthcare premises
  • Part 2: guiance on the fire engineering of healthcare premises
  • Part 3: Atria in healthcare premises

The guidance in this document is supplementary to, and must be read in conjunction with, the ‘Non-domestic technical handbook’.

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