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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - February 2019

August 11, 2026

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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - January 2019

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Deck the halls with boughs of noncombustible construction

October 25, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant It hardly seems possible that we are rushing headlong into the depths of November (October being almost as I write this), though I will note (as you ...

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Don’t gift surveyors the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of hazardous holiday decorations

October 08, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

Has your staff started dragging out the holiday decorations yet? Yes, it’s time for you to be Scrooge and remind them that while decorations can be fun for patients they can also pose a deadly fire ha...

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Not just dentists need drills

October 04, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

There’s an interesting article on the history of fire drills in the latest issue of Health Facilities Management if you’ve not checked it out. I had the chance to do some work at St. Anthony’s Hospita...

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If you remember nothing else: Nothing happens in isolation

July 06, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant With the (presumed) onset of regulatory surveys including a more thorough review of survey results past, I would imagine that everyone out there in th...

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They blew the horns…and the walls came down!

June 21, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Continuing our intermittent discussion about returning to normalcy on the facilities operations front, I’ve been reflecting on the monumental amount o...

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Forever in debt to your priceless advice…

August 11, 2026

Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Continuing on with our discussions of the unusually revelatory April issue of Perspectives, we shall now turn to the life safety-related items, starti...

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Start getting staff back into survey shape with this quick quiz

August 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

Your staff has been dealing with the COVID-19 crisis at work and at home for more than a year. Help them to get back into a survey readiness mindset with this quick quiz. Hospitals have found that sim...

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Are you transmitting? Late night fire drills and alarm signals…

August 11, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I think we can safely say that sometimes it is tough to pinpoint specifics when it comes down to what performance elements are cited during regulatory...

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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - February 2019

Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - January 2019

Deck the halls with boughs of noncombustible construction

Don’t gift surveyors the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of hazardous holiday decorations

Not just dentists need drills

If you remember nothing else: Nothing happens in isolation

They blew the horns…and the walls came down!

Forever in debt to your priceless advice…

Start getting staff back into survey shape with this quick quiz

Are you transmitting? Late night fire drills and alarm signals…

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