Life Safety Compliance in 2009: How to Meet The Joint Commission's New Standards
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by: Life Safety Compliance Manual: A Guide to the Joint Commission Standards
presented on October 21, 2008
On January 1, 2009, The Joint Commission will begin enforcing its new life safety chapter. Safety officers, facility managers, and other safety professionals will contend with increased elements of performance, new scoring concerns, and elevated scrutiny by The Joint Commission’s life safety specialists. This upheaval is compounded by the fact that Life Safety Code® (LSC) violations are among the top five cited areas by surveyors. With the reorganization of the life safety standards it is imperative that you gain an understanding of these changes and how they will affect your organization.
Though the changes may be intimidating, ease your mind and listen to HCPro's 90-minute audio conference, Life Safety Compliance in 2009: How to Meet The Joint Commission's New Standards. Experienced professionals Brad Keyes, CHSP, (a former life safety specialist with The Joint Commission) and William E. Koffel, PE, FSFPE (who helped The Joint Commission develop the new LS standards) guide you through the new chapter, offer insight about what provisions are behind the LS standards, and give you tips to stay ahead of citations in 2009.
BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- Crosswalk between The Joint Commission’s 2008 life safety requirements and 2009 life safety standards
- Related articles from our award-winning monthly resource, Healthcare Life Safety Compliance
These materials are provided with PDF links.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Explain why the life safety standards are splitting into their own chapter
- Recognize the structure of the new life safety standards
- Determine how the new life safety standards will affect your next survey
- Implement tips and best practices for avoiding life safety citations in 2009
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA
- Why the life safety standards are splitting from the environment of care (EC) chapter
- Greater emphasis on life safety
- Further defining the role of the life safety specialist
- Highlights from the hospital life safety (LS) standards
- LS.01.01.01—Complying with the LSC
- LS.01.02.01—Protecting occupants from LSC deficiencies
- LS.02.01.10—Minimizing the effects of fire
- LS.02.01.20—Means of egress
- LS.02.01.30—Fire protection building features
- LS.02.01.34—Fire alarm systems
- LS.02.01.35—Extinguishing systems
- LS.02.01.40—Special fire protection features
- LS.02.01.50—Building services
- LS.02.01.70—Operating features
- Scoring concerns
- How the electronic Statement of Conditions fits into the LS standards
- Basic building information (current Part 2)
- Life safety assessment (current Part 3)
- Plans for improvement (current Part 4)
- Five best practices to stay ahead of life safety citations
- Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Brad Keyes, CHSP, is a safety engineer and consultant to healthcare organizations for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. His expertise lies in the management of the environment of care, development of leadership effectiveness, and efficiency in work processes. This work focuses on life safety issues, assessing an organization’s preparedness for survey, evaluating processes in achieving preparedness, and guiding organizations towards compliance.
William E. Koffel, P.E., F.S.F.P.E., is president of Koffel Associates, Inc., a fire protection engineering firm in Elkridge, MD. He has more than 20 years experience in fire protection engineering, surveys, analysis, cost estimation, design, and documentation. Koffel serves as project manager for numerous design and survey projects, develops seminars, trains engineers in the private and public sectors, and represents numerous industries in the code development process. He is the past president of The Society of Fire Protection Engineers and a member of several technical committees of the Life Safety Code.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Safety officer, facilities director, plant operations director, hospital fire marshal, director of engineering, survey coordinator, vice president of operations, survey readiness coordinator, director of quality assurance, nursing home administrator and maintenance director
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