Mac’s Safety Space: Greetings From the Survey Zone
Hospital Safety Connection, April 7, 2011
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A few items have been popping up in surveys over the last couple of weeks; two require a homework assignment for you, the other I offer as general information. So here goes:
LS.01.02.01 – I thought this one would have gone away forever, but it would seem that there have been a few folks who have lost sight of a very important aspect of the Interim Life Safety Standards and that is the practical application of the risk assessment to determine whether or not the LSC deficiencies you are managing as plan for improvements (PFI’s) (and that’s anything that you are measuring as a PFI) require implementation of any Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM). Now, every once in a while I get some pushback from folks because this requirement is not necessarily the most explicit in the world; a point with which I do not totally disagree.
Read more about the other items on Mac's Safety Space.
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