{"id":1276,"date":"2022-11-01T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/?page_id=1276"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:13:37","slug":"emergency-alarms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/emergency-exits-and-safety\/emergency-alarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Types of alarms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two basic types of emergency alarm systems exist.<\/p>\n<p>The first type is a one-stage alarm that sounds an evacuation signal as soon as a problem is detected. The second type is a two-stage alarm that produces two distinct signals.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure that people with vision or hearing loss are alerted to an alarm, both auditory and visual signals should be used in an alarm system, regardless of whether it\u2019s a single-stage or two-stage system.<\/p>\n<p>Alarm systems should be designed in compliance with local building codes and installed in conformance with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfaa.ca\/nationalcanadianfirealarmcodeandstandards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Canadian Fire Alarm Code and Standards &#8211; (CFAA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In residential settings, installation of vibrating alarm-signalling devices should be implemented where residents who are both deaf and blind reside. Typically these systems are configured with a bed vibrator that activates if the building alarm system or a smoke alarm system within a dwelling unit is triggered. During waking hours, other warning systems should be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Types of alarms Two basic types of emergency alarm systems exist. The first type is a one-stage alarm that sounds an evacuation signal as soon as a problem is detected. The second type is a two-stage alarm that produces two distinct signals. To ensure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1247,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}