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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance

Issue 6, June 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Electrical power strips: How they are regulated by the Life Safety Code

  The use of electrical power strips in healthcare settings is a great concern to facility managers...

• Managing electronically monitored fire extinguishers

  Consider this scenario: A fire develops in a utility room and a nurse runs to the nearest fire...

• Understanding path of egress in a construction zone

  One of the most common problems with construction in an occupied hospital is how to arrange safe...

• Extension Surveys: A little-known piece of accreditation compliance

  If your healthcare organization acquires a new service, program, or site for which The Joint...

• Editorially speaking ?

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, offers his thoughts, concerns, and...

• Questions & Answers

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, consultant for Keyes Life Safety...

• Fire drill requirements

  One of the Q&As in this month's issue dealt with fire drills. The question asked what...

Issue 5, May 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Changes for facility managers with the adoption of the 2012 edition of the LSC

  CMS has stated that it will begin the process of adopting a more recent edition of NFPA 101, the...

• A case for contracted fire alarm testing

  An article in the April issue of HLSC discussed how one hospital was seriously reviewing the...

• Director of engineering for The Joint Commission explains stance on equipment maintenance

  During a March webinar presented by Joint Commission Resources, George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM...

• Editorially speaking

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, offers his thoughts, concerns, and...

• Questions & Answers

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, consultant for Keyes Life Safety...

• CMS allows waivers for limited 2012 Life SafetyCode issues

  CMS issued a memo titled "S&C-12-21-LSC" in March, which will permit all healthcare...

Issue 4, April 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Modifying the ICC building codes

  During last year's American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) annual conference in Seattle...

• CMS considers changes to humidity requirements

  According to information provided by the American Society of Healthcare Engineers (ASHE), CMS is...

• Dealing with fire barrier management

  There seems to be a pattern of dealing with penetrations in fire-rated walls in healthcare...

• Fire alarm technicians on hospital staff

  One of the more important aspects of life safety in a hospital is the fire alarm system, where...

• Bat colony leads to ?Immediate Threat to Life' decision

  A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats that found refuge in a void in a hospital wall led to that...

• Fire barrier management, ICC building codes, ?and more

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, offers his thoughts, concerns, and...

• Questions & Answers

  Questions & Answers   Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP...

• Fire alarm testing requirements

  Earlier in this issue we discussed fire alarm technicians and touched on the issue of the multiple...

Issue 3, March 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• What AHJs say about the authority of the AHJs

  In last month's issue we asked the question, "Who's the final authority having jurisdiction...

• Make room for one more accreditor?

  There may be a new player in town when it comes to accrediting hospitals for Medicare and Medicaid...

• Watch your vendors and contractors closely

  Do you contract with vendors to perform routine ­testing and inspections of your fire...

• Training for fire door inspections

  When the new 2012 edition of NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code® (LSC), is finally adopted by the...

• AHJ authority, deemed status, and fire doors

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, senior consultant for Keyes Life Safety...

• Standpipe testing and inspection

  An article in this issue discussed water-flow testing of automatic standpipes and dry standpipes...

Issue 2, February 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Who's the final AHJ?

  Which authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) has the final authority over a hospital?

• A look at the new Building Maintenance Program

  The Building Maintenance Program (BMP) is improved, expanded, and better than ever, according to...

• The origin of the Life Safety Code

  Have you ever stopped to ask, "Why do we have a Life Safety Code® (LSC)? If we already...

• Rooster tail protection

  Why should hospital facility managers be concerned about rooster tails? Because they may lead to...

• The rooster-tail effect and infection control

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, senior consultant for Keyes Life Safety...

• Questions & Answers

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, senior consultant for Keyes Life Safety...

• Air pressure relationships: New interpretations

  There have been numerous reports from hospital facility managers and safety officers who said they...

Issue 1, January 1, 2012 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Facilities, accreditation departments team up to create improved Life Safety Code tracer

  When hospitals talk about tracers, the focus is ­almost always on the accreditation or survey...

• The art of evacuations

  Fire, smoke, natural disasters. No matter where your facility is located, no matter whether it is a...

• Healthcare Life Safety Compliance 2011 index

  Healthcare Life Safety Compliance 2011 index