Safety Articles by Topic: Life Safety
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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 Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2009
A cooking fire at a New Jersey hospital serves as a reminder that grease can be a hazard.
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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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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
If your hospital underwent a Joint Commission survey in 2009, we want to hear from you about how...
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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 Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
It won’t be long before holiday decorations start to show up on units and in offices, which...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 42, October 13, 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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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 40, September 30, 2009
With a few tweaks, your computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) drawings can also become...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
It seems like enough work to know The Joint Commission’s environment of care standards, but...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 38, September 16, 2009
Our new seminar, Life Safety Code Solutions for Hospitals, takes place September 24-25 in Boston...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
We’re just two weeks away from Life Safety Code Solutions for Hospitals, a convenient...
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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
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 35, August 26, 2009
Those of you who were unable to attend our 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium in May can...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
When it comes to successfully clarifying life safety citations from Joint Commission surveyors, key...
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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 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 31, July 29, 2009
If you’ll be traveling to Anaheim, CA, next week for the American Society for Healthcare...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
HCPro has two brand new seminars coming up in the fall that you’ll want to check out:
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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 29, July 15, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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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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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 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 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
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance exclusively covers life safety issues in healthcare facilities...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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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
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 23, June 3, 2009
The Life Safety Code requires hospitals to carry out fire watches when a fire alarm or sprinkler...
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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
In smaller settings, life safety can easily be buried at the bottom of the to-do list, in part...
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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
In the spirit of its 2009 standards offering greater clarification to help hospital compliance, The...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 22, May 27, 2009
Particularly large healthcare facilities now face the possibility of hosting a life safety...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 21, May 20, 2009
It’s well known that the Life Safety Code and Joint Commission standard EC.02.03.03 require...
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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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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
Don’t miss out on the great premium content HCPro develops for hospital safety professionals...
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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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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
Following is a list of documentation that The Joint Commission’s life safety specialists are...
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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 10, March 11, 2009
We’ve uploaded great new content to the Hospital Safety Center...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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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 6, February 11, 2009
A free online recording is now available of HCPro’s popular audio conference, “Hospital...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
Last week a competitor of ours ran a story that perpetuated the myth that you must always be able...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
Speaking of Joint Commission compliance, platinum subscribers to the Hospital Safety Center now...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
We want to thank all of you who’ve been loyal readers along the way, and we’re excited...
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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 Center, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Atlantic City, NJ, may be known for its casinos, but Larry Sweeney—AtlantiCare’s...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
It appears that Det Norske Veritas’ (DNV) new accreditation program for hospitals will give...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 51, December 17, 2008
The end of the year brings an important Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) change and new Joint...
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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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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, Issue 12, November 11, 2008
Healthcare facilities protect paper medical records from fire by installing sprinkler systems and...
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Hospital Safety Connection, Issue 46, November 5, 2008
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Emergency Management Alert, Issue 33, September 2, 2008
A state psychiatric hospital in North Carolina has lost its Joint Commission accreditation in part...