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Healthcare Safety Leader

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Education is key to fire safety in the medical laboratory

October 25, 2022

Laboratory Safety, 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...

Medical Environment Update

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Towering inferno: Fire safety in the laboratory

December 14, 2025

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

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

December 14, 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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Executive Briefing: Don’t just repair damage, ask why it happened

October 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

TJC is increasing its number of LS surveyors and they are all being trained that nothing can hang from or even touch sprinkler pipes unless it is part of the fire suppression system itself, warned Her...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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TJC tweaks EC and LS standards, adds specifics to some requirements

September 23, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

Review your Environment of Care (EC) and Life Safety (LS) policies and procedures now that The Joint Commission has issued another round of revisions, prepublished September 21 with an effective date ...

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

December 14, 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...

Mac's Safety Space

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There may not be any frost on the pumpkin yet…

September 26, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Physical environment

As the Fall colors start to manifest itself and the scary folk prepare for their time in the moonlight, it’s also a good time to remind folks about Fire Prevention Week (October 9 -15). ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Can I have sprinkle(r)s on that?

September 19, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Over the years, I’ve found that folks sometimes have a tough time wrapping their heads around instances in which sprinkler systems are impaired enough to require implementation of Interim Life Safety ...

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Surgical fire and IC risks, and EC problems highlighted on survey

September 13, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control, Fire & Life Safety

Check your eyewash stations, verify air pressure relationships, ensure exit signs are functioning, review surgical instruments for proper sterilization, ensure food temperatures are within range, and ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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USC launches new health systems management engineering program

December 14, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

The University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, in conjunction with the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, has launched the first...

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Education is key to fire safety in the medical laboratory

Towering inferno: Fire safety in the laboratory

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

Executive Briefing: Don’t just repair damage, ask why it happened

TJC tweaks EC and LS standards, adds specifics to some requirements

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

There may not be any frost on the pumpkin yet…

Can I have sprinkle(r)s on that?

Surgical fire and IC risks, and EC problems highlighted on survey

USC launches new health systems management engineering program

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