Safety requirements for protecting against fire in the premises of care.

• Index tables:

Table number Table name

7-1 Validity of the buildings from the structural position to see if it can be used for ca
7-2 Calculate the distance transition and the direct distance to these buildings.
7-3 Fire fighting extinguishers for these buildings according to the category, rise, and
7-4 Engineering services specialized for such buildings.

• Safety requirements for protecting against fire in the care buildings.

Premises of care
7-1
The buildings or its parts that are specialized for health and social care, whose its resid
or they are bound under the influence arrest for moving, including the hospitals, elderly
children social welfare, mental health hospitalities, and prisons in all its categories.
Te premises of care: are the buildings or parts of it that are specialized in the provision
to providing not less than four bed for the patients. It is known that those who visit such
7-1/1
protecting themselves because of elder or physical injury or mental illness. These buildin
emergency and first aid buildings.
The social car buildings: it is specialized n providing social care, and to provide not less
7-1/2
incapable, or infants such as in kindergartens.
Social Reforming buildings (prisons): it is where the prisoners or detainees stay more t
7-1/3 hours). They are considered to be incapable of escaping with their lives and souls in case
or escape. Prisons of all kinds, sizes, and arrest cambers.
7-2 The danger of fire: the seriousness of fire is classified to be in the premises of care as a
7-3 Structural requirements:
The protective conditions must be applied in the engineering field in order to provide th
7-3/1
against fire danger.
The structural validity of the buildings are specified in order to be used in care stuffs ac
7-3/2 classifying the buildings through its resistance to fire’ and the second chart 1-7 ‘ the stru
to be used as care buildings.
It must be taken into consideration the other authorities’ conditions, and the specialist
7-3/3 with the Ministry f Health concerning the care buildings, and with the Ministry of Social
of the social reforming.
• Validity of the buildings according to its construction to be used for care premises
care:

Constructional classification Area and height

First and second kinds only More than two floors
First, second, and fourth kinds only Two floors
All kinds
One floor
The fifth kind temporary and under certain conditions.
7-4 Mix usage
In case the care buildings are part of buildings of other use, they must be sep
7-4/1
to be independent and have its only free escape passages.
7-4/2 The mixed usage must not be a type that might face a high fire danger or any
7-4/3 The parts responsible for caring must be separated from other parts specializ
The escaping passages special for the care premises or its parts must be sepa
7-4/4
other parts and it must directly leads to the outside.
Control over the spread of fire: the conditions of the first group must be appl
7-5
commands.
7-5/1 Horizontal spread: the area of the fire should not exceed (2,000 m2).
Regions of different usages must be separated from each other, and each sec
7-5/1/1
independent fire region.
7-5/1/2
Any floor or part of a floor that is used for treatment or sleeping, and that can
7-5/1/3
or that exceeds 45m is considered to be an independent secondary fire sector.
Vertical proliferation: it is preferred to separate the main openings from othe
7-5/2 a wall resisting to fire not less than one hour, and door openings that its resist
forty five minutes.
7-5/2/1 The vertical vacuum (minwar), stairc