Life Safety Made Easy: Your Key to Understanding Fire Safety in Health Care Facilities

This guide makes it easy to understand and to comply with the LS standards and explains how they relate to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Life Safety Code®. This guide is perfect for new health care facility managers, safety engineers, and Joint Commission accreditation professionals--and it is also just what their leaders need to understand all the life safety concepts, terms, and jargon. This book aims to translate the language of life safety in health care facilities for those new to the field and for those who need to support health care facility professionals and speak their language.

Life Safety Made Easy presents key concepts, standards, compliance challenges, and codes in clear, concise language and a colorful, easy-to-follow format. It also explains how LS standards are surveyed for compliance by Joint Commission surveyors and demystifies the survey process, the scoring methodology, and accreditation policies and procedures pertaining to the health care environment. The LS standards are among the most challenging standards with which health care organizations must comply, based on how frequently they are cited by surveyors as deficient and this book simplifies those concepts.

Key Content

• The survey process for LS standards
  • Fire alarm, notification, and suppression systems
• The relationship of Joint Commission standards to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) s codes
• General life safety design and building construction
• Means of egress
• Barriers, openings, elevators, chutes, and furnishings

Key Features

• Fast-read explanations no heavy text to plow through
• Clear, concise definitions of buzz words and jargon in plain language that anyone can understand
• Dozens of customizable tools, including checklists, worksheets, schedules, forms, and more
• Easy-to-use, easy-to-reference organization of content get what you need, when you need it

Standards: LS

Settings: Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health Care, Critical Access Hospital, Home Care, Hospital, Office-Based Surgery, Nursing Care Centers, Laboratory

Audience: Health care facility managers, both new and seasoned, across all accreditation programs, Accreditation professionals, Leadership at various levels who need to support health care facility management.