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Created exclusively for healthcare facility managers, plant operations professionals, and directors of engineering, this monthly 12-page, award-winning resource helps you comply with The Joint Commission’s Life Safety standards, NFPA codes, and related fire protection provisions. Written by Life Safety expert, Brad Keyes, CHSP, each issue is packed with analysis and advice on fire and life safety issues that’s easy to read and apply to your facility.

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Issue 2, February 2, 2020

• Clarification: 1135 waivers, temporary suspension of rules during a disaster

  Joint Commission–accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals must have a process in...

• Keyes Q&A: Generator fuel testing, sprinklers in elevator pits, corridor walls

  Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about...

• Environment of Care: What to Expect in the Upcoming Year

  This excerpt comes from the HCPro book, Environment of Care Compliance Manual, Sixth Edition.

• Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

  TJC's newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that...

• Creating a culture of safety

  The better alternative for keeping a medical clinic safe is to create an environment where...

Issue 1, January 5, 2020 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• How to make facility inspections easier

  Just because you’re not the hospital’s administrator or safety officer doesn’t...

• Ligature risk, infection control top concerns at Executive Briefings

  Widespread ligature risks, incomplete environmental risk assessments, and lack of a mitigation plan...

• Q&A: Smoke detectors, oxygen cylinder storage, sprinkler types, and remote power taps

  Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about...

• Top EC problems include infection control, risk assessments, documentation

  Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, the new director of TJC’s Department of Engineering, offered a...

• Top LS issues involve usual suspects: Sprinkler systems, means of egress

  Cables attached to sprinkler lines, dirty sprinkler heads, obstructions, and problems with escape...

• Healthcare Life Safety Compliance 2019 index

  If you need to review any topics, we’ve created this index of HLSC articles to help you...