How to make facility inspections easier
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, January 5, 2020
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Most hospital safety engineers spend their careers in the back of the house, preparing for the inevitable visit their facility gets every 18–36 months from The Joint Commission’s surveyors.
They are making sure that the hospital is abiding by the rules that regulators set forth, and those rules can be the fuel of nightmares: complex, hard to understand, and sometimes vague.
The good news is that you can prepare for upcoming surveys, and the most successful safety professionals know to make facility tours a regular part of their work week, if not their daily tasks, in order to maintain the status of their facility.
Study, and know the standards
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