K200s
This is how often the exit sign lighting must be inspected.
What is monthly?
This is how often a kitchen exhaust hood needs to be serviced/maintained.
What is every 6 months?
This is how often an elevator (equipped with firefighter’s service) must be operated with written record.
What is monthly?
This k-tag would be cited if the fire doors were not able to latch.
What is K761?
Colloquial term used to define the unapproved practice of plugging in a power strip to another power strip.
What is daisy chaining?
The type of emergency lights/exit sign lights that require a 90-minute annual test.
What is battery-powered emergency lights/exit sign lights?
This is minimum distance that a hand sanitizer dispenser needs to be installed from an ignition source.
What is 1 inch?
This safety device, commonly referred to by the acronym GFCI, is installed on electrical receptacles located near a source of water.
What is a ground fault circuit interrupter?
Location where ‘NO SMOKING’ signs are posted in SNFs that prohibit smoking, to avoid having to post signage at rooms containing combustible gases/flammable liquids/oxygen.
What is at all major entrances?
Medical equipment used for the resident’s health and wellbeing, commonly referred to by the acronym PCREE in NFPA 99.
What is patient-care-related electrical equipment?
Facilities that are allowed to have egress doors that are equipped with a latch or lock that requires the use of a tool or key to unlock from the egress side.
What are facilities with clinical security needs or facilities with special safety needs?
A laundry room greater than this (in square feet) would be considered a hazardous area.
What is 100 square feet?
The NFPA standard used for electrical safety in the workplace.
What is NFPA 70?
9pm to 6am.
What is the allowed time frame for coded announcements during fire drills?
The required distance between the storage of combustibles and oxygen tanks.
What is 5 feet?
4 feet / 48 inches
What is the minimum clear width for a corridor serving as a means of egress?
The maximum installation height of a 55lb fire extinguisher.
What is 3.5 feet?
This is when a newly installed fire damper would need to be inspected and tested.
What is one year after installation?
The temperature (in Fahrenheit) the heating element of a space heater used in an employee area cannot exceed.
What is 212?
The UL-standard for power strips that are allowed to be used with PCREE.
What is UL 1363A and UL 60601-1?
his k-tag would be cited if a resident room has a lock that restricts egress from the resident room and the facility does not have patient, clinical, security, or safety needs.
What is K221?
K364 would be cited if a corridor door was equipped with this component (a passive method of balancing air pressure between rooms).
What is a transfer grille/louver?
This k-tag would be cited if an in-use laundry chute was not protected by a fire sprinkler.
What is K541?
The maximum clearance allowed between the bottom of the fire door and the floor/threshold.
What is ¾ inch?
The minimum wording required for precautionary signs posted on an oxygen cylinder storage room.
What is “CAUTION: OXIDIZING GAS(ES) STORED WITHIN NO SMOKING”?