In the new NFPA Journal: The Life Safety Code considers grab bars to prevent falls in baths and showers

Technical committees for NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, are considering proposed changes to the 2018 edition of the code that would address the risk of falls in baths and showers. That’s the topic of “Grab Hold,” the In Compliance/NFPA 101 piece in the November/December issue of NFPA Journal. Authored by Ron Coté, principal life safety engineer at NFPA, the article looks at grab bar changes being made to “address a significant public health problem, one raised in the substantiation for the Public Inputs proposing these new provisions.” Coté writes that the substantiation documented some eye-opening findings: » The U.S. Consumer...