6400.110(f) | Individual #1 is diagnosed with hearing loss and wears bilateral hearing aids. There are no strobe lights throughout the home to alert Individual #1 in the event of a fire. | If one or more individuals or staff persons are not able to hear the smoke detector or fire alarm system, all smoke detectors and fire alarms shall be equipped so that each person with a hearing impairment will be alerted in the event of a fire. | RPD verbally requested strobes to be placed throughout the home to COO on 5/11/22. RPD additionally emailed a maintenance request to COO, for strobe lights throughout the home for individual diagnosed with hearing loss (attachment). On 6/9/22, the contracted company that provides alarm systems and maintenance for systems for the agency responded to COO and scheduled a site survey for June 15 at 1pm, to assess how many strobes and in what locations are needed via email. Additionally, a booster was previously installed to the fire system to magnify the volume of the alarm to ensure hearing impaired individual will be alerted of alarm. See Attachments: 3 emails for this particular home date 5/17/22, 6/09/22 and 06/15/22.
All other homes were monitored for the need for strobe lights during fire drills by RPS on 5/13/22. One other strobe light was found to be needed at another location and a maintenance request was filed. |
06/15/2022
| Implemented |