Possible Reasons & Way forward to take Preventive Measures
About the Program
In view of the recently reported fire accidents in the country, (both in dedicated Covid Care Centers and other Hospitals, including Nursing Homes), an increasing amount of intolerance is visibly seen at the market place from public, various stakeholders towards rising fire accidents in healthcare facilities. Recent SC order in Dec 2020 called for immediate fire audit inspection of all covid hospitals in the country.
Repeated incidents in the last few years has already atracted the attention of Ministry of Home Affairs and all the states and UTs have been directed to update their respective local building Bye-laws or Fire Service Act and to align and make them sync in line with ‘Model Bill on Maintenance of Fire & Emergency Services 2019’ circulated by Ministry of Home Affairs on September 16, 2019 read with other advisories issued from time to time under National Building Code of India. Circular was sent by MHA to all States, UTs in Nov 2020.
Union Home Secretary has again recently directed all the Chief Secretaries of states to ensure due compliance of the directives regarding fire safety guidelines and to immediately re-inspect all hospitals or nursing homes to prevent fire accidents in future.
This program is designed to create deliberations amongst all stakeholders, experts from the healthcare ecosystem to understand, brainstorm about the possible reasons for such rising accidents in healthcare facilities in the recent years and to debate about possible action plan to prevent the occurrence of more such mishaps in the near future.
Program Outline
Panel Discussion – Round 1 – Time : 3 pm – 4 pm
Panel Discussion – Round 2 – Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Who should attend ?
Hospital Promoters, Medical Professionals, CEOs, COOs, Facility Incharges, Building Mainteanance Teams, Biomedical Teams, Operations teams, HVAC Teams, Utility maintenance teams , QA Teams, Safety Consultants and Experts, Hospital Palnners, Designers, Medical Planners, Architects, Electrical Safety Engineers, Civil Engineers
How to register ?
No regn fee. but prior registration is a must.
Program Brochure :
Know Your Moderator, Panelists :
Round 1 Session
Ms Neeta Sharma | Dr G C Misra | Mr B Gautham Baliga, Director – OPAL HVAC Engineers P Ltd |
Dr Aniruddha Chimote, MD Health Facilities Planner Director, Hosconnn Consulting Services P Ltd | Mr CJ Kosalraman, Architect Managing Director, Infrabees Project Mgmt Consulting Services | Mr Karthikeyan G Program & Project Manager – Commercial and Industrial, UL India |
Mr Deepak Venkatesh Agarkhed AVP – Sakra World Hospital Expert – Engg Facilities & Quality – AHPI |
Round 2 Session
Dr Girdhar Gyani Director General – AHPI Association of Healthcare Providers (India) | Mr Anil Jauhri Ex CEO – NABCB Expert – International Conformity Assessments | Dr Atul Mohan Kochhar |
Mr Vasudevan Suresh | Dr B K Rana CEO – QAI Quality & Accreditation Institute | Mr Richie Mittal |
Mr P K Rao |
This Program is organised by Consultants Consortium of Chennai and supported by :
Program will be telecast Live on You Tube Page of Consultants Consortium of Chennai -CCC
Do watch the live telecast from 3pm onwards at the below mentioned link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4c0q5XP159H9_JKByuLMSg
Contact Coordinators :
Rama Venugopal – 9840870532 – contact@ccc-consultants.org
D Srikanthan – 9003056539 – secretariat@ccc-consultants.org
Few suggestions from my experience to implement in all hospitals is the culture of “S.P.E.E.D before R.A.C.E”
– Leave R.A.C.E as a fire fighting strategy to the Fire Brigade when they arrive after Flashover happens.
-Stress on the need to put out the fire before flashover which could happen in around 3 mins.
– People in situ to act as First Resondents to do S.P.E.E.D (Shout, Phone for Second Respondents, Exitinguish using fire extinguisher (ABC for all fires and CO2 if a costly equipment on fire- PASS), Evacuation preparations to start and Detach inflammables from near the fire)
– Second Respondents to reach in 2 mins. Parties include Cordon, Fighters, Picket( to bring water to site through hydrant pipes), Evacuation and Salvage). Phone 101 if flashover happens.
– Third Respondent – Fire Brigade to do RESCUE, ALARM, CONTAIN, EXTINGUISH
– A type fire needs water as heat will remain deep down to reassemble the fire triangle. So second respondents to usher in water is essential.
– Train first and second respondents during induction, once a year refresher, on site once a year, periodic mock drills.
– Video record a demo for the Hospital.