AHCA requirement for locking panels in nursing home.

[chris kennedy]

I got a call today from a 40+ yr old nursing home stating that a comment on the AHCA inspection report requires all their panels have locking doors. This is news to me and I am currently searching ahca.org with no luck. Anyone heard of this requirement before?

Thanks.

 

[fatboy]

Don't have first hand knowledge, closest I can tell they use the NFPA Life-Safety Code, and for Electrical, it references back to the NEC.

http://ahca.myflorida.com/MCHQ/Plans/pdfs/codes_and_standards.pdf

http://ahca.myflorida.com/MCHQ/Plans/

 

[Bryan Holland]

A new AHCA regulated construction project will indicate this requirement in the Division 16 electrical specifications, but I am not aware of any requirement for an existing facility to be retrofitted to comply with this requirement unless the facility is being renovated or altered and the electrical equipment is under the scope of work???

 

[fireguy]

Why wouldn't a break away padlock meet code?

 

[chris kennedy]

A new AHCA regulated construction project will indicate this requirement in the Division 16 electrical specifications, but I am not aware of any requirement for an existing facility to be retrofitted to comply with this requirement unless the facility is being renovated or altered and the electrical equipment is under the scope of work???

Thanks Bryan, saw the earlier post at MH and am still combing the AHCA site and can't find this requirement either. I'm in Fire and Life Safety there.