2000 Life Safety Code Field Guide for Health Care Facilities

The 2000 Life Safety Code® continues to bring significant challenges to health care

The Joint Commission's scrutiny of 2000 Life Safety Code® compliance is at an all-time high, based on recent statistics showing the top-cited standards in hospitals include violations centered on means of egress, building features, and fire protection equipment testing.

This 175-page Field Guide is the perfect companion to help you understand the requirements for healthcare and ambulatory occupancies, stay in compliance, and maintain your Joint Commission accreditation. The Field Guide focuses solely on the immediate requirements of the 2000 Code in a small, easy-to-carry format, so you'll be able to quickly reference the Code while on the job. With the concise format of the Field Guide you'll spend less time searching and more time complying!

Benefits:

• Identify and highlight the most important healthcare provisions of the code with easily-navigable "Critical Issues" sections
• Explain and understand complex requirements with more than 100 detailed diagrams and tables
• Navigate the NFPA's intent behind the code’s provisions through advice, commentary, and tips from life safety experts

Need more than a condensed version of the requirements? Order the 2000 Life Safety Code Set and save over $70!

The 2000 Life Safety Code Set includes the Field Guide (mentioned above) and the Life Safety Code Workbook. At 450 pages the Workbook contains more than 30 chapters, or modules, of comprehensive Code coverage to help you understand and comply with the changes from the 1997 to the 2000 edition of the Code. It features learning objectives at the beginning of each module, commentary from experts in the field of life safety, and quizzes to measure your progress, making this the ultimate resource for all your Life Safety Code needs. Click here to purchase them both as a set.

About the Authors

James K. Lathrop, former chief life safety engineer for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and the editor of four editions of the Life Safety Code Handbook, is currently an instructor of NFPA seminars and vice president at Koffel Associates, Inc., a fire protection engineering and Code-consulting firm.

Jennifer L. Holloman Frecker conducts life safety inspections, fire protection systems inspections, acceptance testing for systems, shop drawing, and plan reviews for Koffel Associates. She provides Code-consulting services to a wide range of occupancies. She has gained considerable knowledge in the institutional code criteria as a result of her extensive work in the health care field. On an annual basis, she conducts Joint Commission Statement of Conditions consultations to health care facilities nationwide.

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