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Staff are asking for window restrictors to be deactivated in staff only accessible areas of healthcare premises based on information contained in the best practice guiidance, that only patient areas require restrictors Health Building Note 00-10 Part D: Windows and associated hardware, The reason for the requests is so that they can have extra fresh air.
The guidance constantly refers to clinical areas
Personally I see no problem with this in staff only secured areas, provided the staff only areas are always secured and the restrictors are engaged as and when the areas are unoccupied
Thoughts?
SBH
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SBH,
I don't see an issue with disabling restrictors in areas which are for staff use provided that you do an assessment and are reasonably sure that vulnerable people won't enter the area unaccompanied.
Depending on your setting it's possible to disable individual restrictors following risk assessment in service use/patient areas anyway; people who are themselves not at enhanced risk are entitled to open the windows in their own bedrooms, though in most residential settings it's hard to be sure that the wrong person won't go into somebody else's room and fall,
John
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