Fire safety in a building that can't evacuate

Live fire alarm monitoring, testing and evidence across hospital and healthcare estates.

What you're accountable for

The Fire Safety Order applies to every part of the estate, and in healthcare it applies to buildings where the standard response to an alarm isn't available. [HTM 05-01 / 05-02 / 05-03, as applicable] set the expectations for fire safety management, and [CQC] will ask how you evidence them.

All have to work together, and all have to be provable

The building can't empty, so everything else has to work.

Progressive horizontal evacuation means a fire alarm doesn't clear the building it moves people sideways, on the same floor, often in beds. That places the whole burden on detection being accurate, on compartmentation holding, and on staff knowing precisely where the alarm is. 

Then there's the estate itself

A wing from the sixties

A PFI block from 2004

A modular ward from last year

365
Works never stop, so zones are isolated somewhere on the site everyday of the year
03:00
And the response happens at three in the morning, with a skeleton team.

The Challenges Facing Healthcare Providers

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Small Visibility Gaps Create Estate-Wide Risk

When safety and compliance information is fragmented, it becomes harder to maintain control across hospitals and care sites. This can lead to delayed responses, inconsistent reporting, reduced accountability and increased pressure during audits or regulatory checks — at a higher stakes level than almost any other sector.

One Platform for Healthcare Estate Oversight

Drax brings safety and compliance activity into a single view, helping healthcare providers understand what is happening across every site, identify issues earlier and maintain control with confidence — including over the critical assets that clinical operations depend on.

See Everything in Real Time

Gain real-time visibility across safety, compliance and operational activity in every building.

Stay Audit-Ready at All Times

Maintain clear, structured records to support audits, inspections and regulatory requirements, including CQC and estates compliance reviews.

Act on Issues Earlier

Identify faults, risks and overdue actions earlier to support quicker resolution — before they affect clinical operations.

Who can Benefit?

From Reactive Management to Proactive Oversight

Many estates teams spend valuable time responding to issues after they occur. Drax Technology helps healthcare providers move towards a more proactive approach by highlighting trends, recurring faults and emerging risks before they escalate into larger problems. This allows teams to prioritise resources more effectively, improve system performance and reduce unnecessary disruption to clinical operations and patient care.

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