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Mac’s Safety Space: I wanna know: Have you ever seen the rain?

Hospital Safety Insider, October 27, 2016

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In our intermittently continuing series on the (final!) adoption of the 2012 Life Safety Code(r), we turn to the one area about which I have still the most concerns-the magic land of NFPA 99. My primary concern is that while NFPA 99 contains lots and lots of references to risk assessments and the processes therein, I'm still not entirely convinced that the CMS oversight of the regulatory compliance process is going to embrace risk assessments to the extent that would allow us to plot our own compliance courses. I guess I will have to warily keep my fingers crossed and keep an eye on what actually occurs during CMS surveys of the physical environment.

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