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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 8, August 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Changes to the Statement of Conditions? PFI list

  The Joint Commission published an online notice in June 2014 of changes to its survey decision...

• Approving equivalencies

  Methods to deal with changes to the process

• Requirements concerning power strips

  There has been a lot of discussion over the past few months concerning relocatable power taps...

• Editorially Speaking?

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

• Questions & Answers

  Questions and Answers  

Issue 7, July 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Evaluating the changes the new 2012 Life Safety Code will bring

  In April, CMS published a proposed rule in the Federal Register stating that it will adopt the 2012...

• Fire alarm system occupant notification testing

  By now, most hospitals know that they are required to conduct an annual test of their fire alarm...

• Fire extinguishers in healthcare occupancies

  Editor's note: The following article was written by Robert Hunn, CHFM, CHSP, owner of Hospital...

• Change to smoke compartment size

  The American Society for Healthcare Engineers (ASHE) supports a proposal to change the Life Safety...

• Questions and Answers

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

Issue 6, June 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• CMS publishes the proposed rule to adopt the 2012 LSC

  CMS has taken the next step toward adopting the new 2012 Life Safety Code® (LSC). In April, the...

• Documentation strategies for fire safety equipment

  Surveyors and inspectors, whether they are from The Joint Commission, HFAP, DNV, CIHQ, or your...

• Oxygen cylinder suspected in hospital explosion

  On April 10, an explosion occurred in The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro (New...

• Questions & Answers

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

Issue 5, May 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Highlights from Joint Commission surveys in 2013

  During the first quarter meeting of the Hospital Engineers Society of Northern Illinois (HESNI), a...

• Life safety compliance strategies

  Ensuring consistent compliance with the Life Safety Code® is often a complex and challenging...

• A look at the new Life Safety Code® for 2014

  Preventing fires and escaping a burning building are the key elements of the NFPA 101 Life Safety...

• Questions & Answers

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

Issue 4, April 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Delayed egress on doors in ambulatory healthcare occupancies

  By now, nearly everyone in the healthcare industry should know that CMS is reviewing the 2012...

• Fire safety plans: Ways to ensure compliance

  According to sections 18/19/20/21.7.1.1 of the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code® (LSC...

• A look at evacuation route maps

  Drawings (or maps) are required to be posted in hospital corridors on units and departments to show...

• A look at life safety overseas

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

• Questions & Answers

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

Issue 3, March 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• CMS approves new risk-based preventive maintenance strategy on hospital equipment

  In a long-anticipated move, CMS announced on December 20, 2013, in its Survey & Certification...

• Upcoming changes proposed for emergency preparedness program

  On December 27, 2013, CMS issued a new proposed rule that would affect all healthcare providers who...

• Meeting the fire drill requirements of the Life Safety Code

  Editor's note: The following article was written by Robert Hunn, CHFM, CHSP, owner of Hospital...

• When a fire pump catches fire

  In January, an engine-driven fire pump at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C...

• Editorially Speaking ?

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

• Questions & Answers

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

Issue 2, February 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• The positive aspect of change

    Recently, the American Society for Healthcare Engineers (ASHE) presented a webinar on...

• Potential modifications to NFPA 25

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• New life safety surveyors at HFAP

  The nation’s oldest accreditation organization with deeming authority from CMS to survey...

• Editorially Speaking

    Editor’s note: This month, Senior Editor Brad Keyes, CHSP offers his thoughts...

• Questions & Answers

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

Issue 1, January 1, 2014 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• How to write a successful clarification

  Has a surveyor ever cited you for noncompliance on an issue that you believed you were compliant...

• Fire door inspections, repairs, and labeling

  Editor's note: The following article was written by Jeff Perry, executive director of Fire Door...

• Questions & answers

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

• Editorially speaking ?

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

• 2013 story index

  Anatomy of a Det Norske Veritas Healthcare survey. June, p. 1.