Safety Articles by Topic: Building Maintenance
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Q: During a recent inspection, our fire marshal said the five-year standpipe waterflow test is...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Compliance with The Joint Commission’s life safety and related EC standards often centers on...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
The Joint Commission’s survey at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler continued what appears to...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
In sobering news for hospital safety professionals, four of the top 10 most cited Joint Commission...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
As we first reported Tuesday on our “HospitalSafety” Twitter account, the Centers for...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
During this Joint Commission visit, surveyors looked at glucometers in a lab, air-handler test...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 42, October 13, 2009
The Joint Commission has no requirements for hospitals to lock electrical panels. However, an...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 41, October 7, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
As many of you prepare to enter chillier months, it’s inevitable that portable space heaters...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Ultraviolet-C light, when pointed straight down into a surgical site for infection control...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In our report from the annual ASHE conference, we look at why life safety compliance will continue...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Q: During some research in the area around our main security control room, we discovered that two...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
It won’t be long before holiday decorations start to show up on units and offices, which...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 38, September 16, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacteria that—like Legionella —lives in water pipes as...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
For University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals in Chapel Hill, a previous industrial accident...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
What is tepid water? For the purposes of eyewash safety, the American National Standards Institute...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
When the chief engineer at The Joint Commission warns facilities about a life safety deficiency...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
For now, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will continue to observe fire watch...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
One of the biggest potential pitfalls of any life safety inspection of your facility is whether you...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
As part of an old facility, Oregon State Hospital’s (OSH) Portland and Salem behavioral...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
A medical equipment company has issued a voluntary recall of a line of infant bassinet warmers...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
The Joint Commission created the Statement of Conditions (SOC) to help facility managers assess...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Q. Is it permitted to have a time clock in an exit stairwell of a hospital? My vice president of...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Many of you have heard about surveyors or inspectors who focus on exit signs and their required...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 35, August 26, 2009
Generally, The Joint Commission would prefer to see your plans for improvement (PFIs) funded when...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
A Joint Commission official assigned all attendees of the American Society for Healthcare...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Q: Our fire policy states that someone must be posted at the elevator during a fire alarm to make...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Corridor clutter is always on the radar for surveyors. Gone is the old myth that you are allowed to...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The Joint Commission’s amended fire watch policy is bound to make your accreditation...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The Joint Commission’s 2009 life safety and emergency management chapters have proven to be...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
What does going full tilt on environmentally green efforts get you, really, in this economy?
A...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
It won’t take long for this cheery news to reach your bosses: Life Safety Code (LSC...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
The 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code (LSC) requires hospitals to post exit signs that are...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
As we first reported last week on Mac’s Safety Space, there appear to be no plans by The...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Q. Are smoke detectors required to be installed in hospital corridors? I attended a seminar...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
: As some of you may have noticed, The Joint Commission’s provisions for main drain tests...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
In an exclusive story from HCPro, it appears The Joint Commission?s provisions for main drain tests...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 25, June 17, 2009
A trio of construction workers at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Medical Center got a surprise when a...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Should a freestanding medical office (business occupancy) be required to evacuate everyone when an...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
It’s well known that The Joint Commission grants leeway to hospitals when it comes to...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Under Joint Commission standard EM.02.02.11, there is a brief mention of managing mortuary services...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
February 12 started as a routine day in San Jose, CA, at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
In the spirit of its 2009 standards offering greater clarification to help hospital compliance, The...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
On the surface, it would appear that trimming hospital budgets would have a negative effect on...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 20, May 14, 2009
Hospital actions in response to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak served as a "good dress...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
A fire in an outside Dumpster climbed up an attached construction debris chute and into part of a...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Magnetic latches on suites
We recently had an inspection in our hospital where the inspector cited...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
The Joint Commission?s 2009 life safety chapter incorporates many of the provisions under the old...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Every year in hospitals and hospices, there are 1,600 fires that result in an average of one death...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
The life safety specialist who visited Parrish Medical
Center in Titusville, FL, was a former Air...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Briefings on Hospital Safety is the industry leader in covering The Joint Commission, OSHA, and...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Although it might sound like obvious advice, plenty of safety officers have nonetheless slipped on...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Given the Obama administration’s goal of improving healthcare information technology systems...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Hospitals in the compliance soup of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule mandating...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
A pediatric physician-in-training who inadvertently saw young patients at three Chicago area...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
We currently have a building maintenance program (BMP) that surveyors said was a good program...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
To nip potential Joint Commission problems before they become bigger, you may want to immediately...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Considering our first item above, you’ll have a renewed appreciation of life safety floor...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
In a statistic that can only be bad news for hospitals, the former EC.5.20 was the most cited Joint...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 3, March 1, 2009
A fire on the roof of a New Hampshire hospital proved the need to keep tabs on projects involving...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
A hospital in Indiana is reconfiguring its patient bedroom windows to no longer fully open after a...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
Last month, we reported on a patient who wandered onto the roof of The University of Pittsburgh...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
With The Joint Commission’s new life safety standards taking effect on January 1, let’s...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 49, December 3, 2008
A few weeks back, we read about a hospital that received some unwanted surveyor attention related...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Seven tips to keep you ahead
By now, most of you have had a chance to peruse The Joint...
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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
In an example of the long-term ramifications behind requirements for improvement (RFI) from The...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 47, November 12, 2008
While the eyes of the world were on the U.S. presidential race, taxpayers in Pomeroy, WA, had their...