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Hotel Fire Safety
Regulations Take Effect January 1, 2007
On January 1, 2007 changes to the Ontario Fire Code took
effect, impacting all hotel and motel properties with four or more guest
suites.
Ontario Regulation 144/06, amending the Fire Code to
consolidate comprehensive fire safety requirements for hotels came into
force on January 1, 2007. Effective that date, the Fire Code now applies
to hotels in its entirety. In addition, Section 9.9 of the Fire Code contains
mandatory retrofit requirements for existing hotel establishments with
a compliance period phased in over 5 years.
A web link to a subdirectory on the Office of the Fire
Marshal website provides access to the new hotel regulation, training
materials and contact information. This subdirectory is available at:
http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/english/Legislation/Hotel/Default.asp
For further information please contact the ORHMA Government
Relations Department at 1-800-668-8906 ext.307
Hotel Guest Room Signage Requirements
The following signage requirements apply to guest rooms in all hotels
and motels in the Province of Ontario:
Fire Code: Recent changes
to the Fire Code for hotels require that signage be posted
on the inside of egress doors of each guest suite and shall indicate:
(a) action to be taken by guests discovering a fire or hearing a fire
alarm signal; (b) fire safety rules; and (c) the location of exits.”
Innkeepers Act: Section 6
requires innkeepers to post, in a conspicuous place, in every guest
room and office a copy of the wording provided in section 4 which outlines
the limitation of the innkeepers’ liability. Section 4 states:
Limitations of innkeeper’s liability
4. (1)
No innkeeper is liable to make good to any guest any loss of or injury
to goods brought to the inn, not being a horse or other live animal,
or any gear appertaining thereto, or a carriage, to a greater amount
than the sum of $40 except, except where default or neglect (a) where
the goods have been stolen, lost or injured through the wilful act,
default, or neglect of the innkeeper or the innkeeper's employee; or
unless deposited with him for safekeeping
(b) where the goods have been deposited expressly for safe custody with
the innkeeper. R.S.O. 1990, c. I.7, s. 4 (1).
Conditions of liability
(2) In case of such deposit, it is lawful for the inn keeper,
if the innkeeper thinks fit, to require, as a condition of liability,
that the goods shall be deposited in a box or other receptacle, fastened
and sealed by the person depositing the goods. R.S.O. 1990, c. I.7,
s. 4 (2).
Hotel Registration of Guests Act:
Section 5.1 requires room rates to be posted in a conspicuous place
in every guest room. Section 5.2 makes it an offence to not post such
signs.
Smoke-Free Ontario Act:
Section 22 of Regulation 48/06 requires hotel and motel
operators to post prescribed No Smoking signs (available from local
public health units) in every non-smoking guest room and attached washroom.
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