Fire Safety Precautions and Engineering (SHTM 81)
Published on 06 July 2009
Scottish Health Technical Memorandum 81 Parts 1, 2 and 3: Fire precautions for new premises, fire engineering and atria guidance.
Documents
Details
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’.
This is the latest version of this Guidance document, please click here to see the archived version.
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email nss.feedback@nhs.scot. We will do our best to assist where possible and practicable. It would be helpful if you tell us what format you need and advise on any assistive technologies you are using.