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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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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance

Issue 3, March 1, 2015 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Sprinkler inspection and testing (Part 1)

  James Lake, vice-president of training and communications for the National Fire Sprinkler...

• It's all in the pull

  The nurse finished with her patient and walked to the utility room to replenish some of her...

• Transitioning to the new 2012 Life Safety Code: Part 2

  Editor's note: This is another article in a continuing series to inform our readers on expected...

• Life Safety during construction (Part 1)

  Editors note: Oftentimes construction projects inside the healthcare organization can affect life...

Issue 2, February 1, 2015 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Humidity strategies in the OR

  In October 2014, representatives from over 30 organizations that are considered stakeholders on the...

• Transitioning to the new 2012 Life Safety Code: Part 1

  Editor's note: This is another article in a continuing series to inform our readers on expected...

• Due-date stickers on medical equipment: A surveyor myth?

  During one hospital's recent triennial survey by an accreditation organization, a surveyor observed...

• Questions & Answers

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

Issue 1, January 1, 2015 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Maintaining constant survey readiness

  With all that the typical healthcare facility manager is required to do today, constant readiness...

• Contractors and the survey process

  Should contractors be asked to stop working and leave the hospital as soon as the accreditation...

• Questions & Answers

  Editor's note: Each month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance...

• Editorially Speaking ?

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