18.7.2.3 Staff Response

All health care occupancy personnel shall be instructed in the use of and response to fire alarms.

All health care occupancy personnel shall be instructed in the use of the code phrase to ensure transmission of an alarm under any of the following conditions:

1. When the individual who discovers a fire must immediately go to the aid of an endangered person
2. During a malfunction of the building fire alarm system

Personnel hearing the code announced shall first activate the building fire alarm using the nearest manual fire alarm box and then shall execute immediately their duties as outlined in the fire safety plan.