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Mac’s Safety Space: AAMI: What you gonna do?

Hospital Safety Insider, June 9, 2016

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By necessity, this is going to be somewhat of a hodgepodge of stuff as there are no new postings to The Joint Commission's PEP site. Looks like we'll have to wait for July to see what they have to say about the intricacies of LS.02.01.30, though I suspect that we can anticipate some coverage of hazardous locations (Can't they come up with a better descriptor? While I absolutely understand that the requirements are driven by the point at which the level of stored combustibles in a space is considered "hazardous," I find that it can be rather challenging when communicating to the clinical folks as to why they shouldn't randomly convert patient rooms to storage rooms. The refrain is typically "We don't have anything hazardous in the room, we just have paper supplies, etc." to which I respond, "Well, you've got an amount of paper supplies, etc., that is considered hazardous by the Authority Having Jurisdiction," to which I tend to receive a blank look and an "oh."

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