Safe and Secure: Complex Door Hardware Solutions for Health Care Facilities
Join this session to learn how door hardware solutions for locking, fire and smoke protection, and ligature resistance can create safer, code-compliant healthcare environments—without sacrificing functionality.
About the live course
A safe and secure healthcare environment involves passive fire protection, safety, and security features, requiring unique door hardware solutions. This session is structured to engage the senior practitioner as well as the emerging professional. Join our presenters as they walk you through solutions for door locking, fire and smoke protection, and ligature resistance, while maintaining functionality and code compliance in challenging healthcare environments.
- Understand the full spectrum of codes, regulations, and standards that must be considered in the selection of door hardware.
- Describe the door locking arrangements that are permitted and appropriate for each situation based on functionality.
- Illustrate the full inventory of door hardware needed for compliance on complex door types.
- Distinguish between minimum standard and best practice as it applies to hardware solutions in areas such as behavioral health.
Presented in partnership with the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).
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