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How do you square with rounding?

October 31, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

I think we all know that rounding as it might have once been required in the past (from a regulatory perspective) is a way to monitor conditions in the environment. Is it a good way? Is it the only wa...

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Fire extinguisher requirements

December 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

Dale Lyman, CFPS, Life Safety Code® consultant at Lyman Code Consulting, says “Fire extinguishers are required by code in all healthcare occupancies, but where to locate them in the facility—and more ...

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Q&A: All things fire and life safety with Dale Lyman

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Fire & Life Safety

Dale Lyman, CFPS, has lived and breathed fire and other kinds of safety for decades. He spent most of his career in various roles for the city of Greeley, Colorado. That 35-year stint included roles a...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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TJC exec offers tips, information about common survey miscues and myths

October 18, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Myths and mysteries about surveys and why some Joint Commission RFIs are more about the hospital's policies than about the actual requirements. ...

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This may be a little out of the normal scope of things…

October 17, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures

We are constantly bombarded with interpretations of code and regulation that are oftentimes extrapolations on very basic principles. Certainly, one of the cornerstones of the discussions we’ve had ove...

Medical Environment Update

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Towering inferno: Fire safety in the laboratory

December 18, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

During new lab employee orientation, safety training should be one of the first items, and it should include information about fire prevention and preparedness. Orient the new staff to the layout of t...

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Q&A: Getting prepared for a Life Safety Code survey

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Lance Woolf, MBA, CHSP, has many years’ experience as a Life Safety Code® (LSC) professional. Currently, he serves as director of engineering support at JLL. Prior to that, he had other LSC-related ro...

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Introducing the worser case scenarios…

October 10, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

As we open up the risk assessment process to the outpatient behavioral health environments, the question becomes how much risk can there be to identify as a going concern? ...

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The fight between the blue you once knew…

October 03, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

In an interesting dichotomy that can only truly exist in bureaucracies of a certain magnitude (enormity?) we have the announcement of the newest iteration of the Standards Improvement Initiative (whic...

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Summer musings on life safety, healthcare security, contractor risks, and facilities compliance

December 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

Nothing like the last month of summer to clean out the files in the arena of life safety compliance and healthcare security. Without further ado, here’s a compilation of some news and advice for pr...

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How do you square with rounding?

Fire extinguisher requirements

Q&A: All things fire and life safety with Dale Lyman

TJC exec offers tips, information about common survey miscues and myths

This may be a little out of the normal scope of things…

Towering inferno: Fire safety in the laboratory

Q&A: Getting prepared for a Life Safety Code survey

Introducing the worser case scenarios…

The fight between the blue you once knew…

Summer musings on life safety, healthcare security, contractor risks, and facilities compliance

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