Personal Precautions: Fire Safety And Safety In The Hospitals

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Bolting Windows Safety is important everywhere; safety in a hospital is just as important if not more. When a baby is born, it wants the safety of its mother. If a child falls off their bike, they cry for their parents. If a teen or adult goes to work, they want the comfort of knowing that they’re safe and going to make it home. The truth is, going to work in the hospital, it can be a very unpredictable. Hospitals aim to be safe. We all take special precautions to make sure others’ germs and bacteria doesn’t spread. If someone harms themselves and gets sent to the hospital, we take special precautions to make sure their safe. Although, with the windows able to open, some patients get the urge to jump. The windows in hospitals should …show more content…

Fire safety is very important when it comes to being in a hospital. Hence why each hospital has their own evacuation plan. When a fire happens too, it’s critical to act fast. Staff are taught another meaning of the word “R.A.C.E”. “R” stands for rescue. Rescuing anyone that’s immediate danger comes first to save more lives. Also to make sure that anything flammable is turned OFF: oxygen. “A” stands for alarm. Make sure that someone, whether it’s you or a delegated task while you rescue, pulls the closest fire alarm, and that someone is calling the emergency number giving the exact location and type of fire. “C” stands for contain. If the windows were already closed, staff wouldn’t have to worry about who 's windows are open and can just concentrate on rescuing and containment by closing doors. Then once contained, worry about “E”. If the fire is too big to extinguish, then evacuate. There’s so many patients on hospital floors and when it comes to being a fire, if you 're able to simplify things, the odds of saving more lives are more likely. Especially if it were to happen at night because the staff amount is more scarce. If you have a floor that can hold up to 40 patients and only have 8 staff members, containment should be something easy and quick enough that way the top priority is rescuing quickly as possible. Given, patients that are ambulatory, able to walk themselves are recused first then down the …show more content…

Safety is extremely important and hospitals do do their best to make it. Hospital windows should be sealed shut to reduce the amount of deaths in suicide, falling out in general but especially in children 18 and younger, and for fire safety. Opening a window may seem innocent, but sometimes allowing that nice breeze to come in isn’t worth it. Hence why there’s alternative roots such as fans and air conditioning that should be more stressed on and. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough companions in the hospital at times to watch patients that may need them to make sure they stay safe. So next time you open a window, think about the consequences that may become a result when you

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