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EC.5.20 violations: What's the disconnect?

Emergency Management Alert, March 27, 2007

When preparing for a Joint Commission survey, have a realistic idea of what you need to do and how you need to do it. That's the opinion of one anonymous Joint Commission engineer who spoke to HCPro in a  March 20 phone interview. He was responding to our question about the rise in violations in the Life Safety Code chapter. Why, we asked, are there so many violations relating to EC.5.20, designing and maintaining new EC environments, and EC.5.40, maintaining fire safety equipment and building features? What's the issue? What are some common problems?

"Facilities managers get preoccupied with day-to-day operations and lose track of the process. Novice facility managers tend to make the mistake of being overly aggressive in their projects and lose time on the back end, either construction-wise or in having an uninformed optimism as far as getting the capital to correct some of the larger deficiencies. Facility managers must understand the larger capital needs of the facilities they serve."

 

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