USFA to study fire safety and the hearing impaired
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Upon request from Congress, the United States Fire Administration will issue a report on fire safety and the hearing impaired.
The USFA has been asked to identify fire safety equipment for the hearing impaired and the efforts to improve it; the equipment’s availability in homes, apartments, hotels, and government buildings; and the extent to which it’s required by model codes and states.
The report will include information on how use of such equipment can be encouraged.
“We want to know what fire safety procedures and devices are available both in private homes and in hotels for the hearing impaired,” said a Science, Research, and Technology subcommittee staff member. “The USFA says that they have a sense of what’s available, but that the information isn’t all in one place. There’s a little something here, a little something there.”
The report is due no later than January 1989.
