NFPA 99-2012
Featuring a groundbreaking shift to a risk- vs. occupancy-based approach, the 2012 NFPA 99 ushers in a new era in health care safety! In response to an increasingly decentralized health care system, a growing array of high-tech procedures, and new security demands, the 2012 NFPA 99 has reinvented itself to reflect a new environment where it is the risk that a procedure poses to patients and staff, not the location where it is conducted, that defines safety guidelines. Its new title — Health Care Facilities Code — signifies that it is rewritten to make performance criteria for health care facilities more enforceable and adoptable. Completely reorganized, this new benchmark advances health care facility safety with major changes such as… A new risk-based framework A fully updated Chapter 5, Gas and Vacuum Systems, including additional maintenance requirements New chapters on security, fire protection, and information technology Operating rooms are considered a wet location unless a risk assessment of the area determines otherwise. The 2012 NFPA 99 is essential for engineers, facility managers…AHJs…plumbers…gas and vacuum system installers, designers, and verifiers…security personnel…insurance companies…and manufacturers. (Softbound, 211 pp., 2012)
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Book Overview
Access the Latest Information to Help Safeguard Lives and Property in Health Care Facilities.
- To help ensure health care professionals can treat patients in a safe and efficient environment, it’s critical to help protect their facilities from fire, electrical, and related hazards. NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, offers the latest performance criteria for health care facilities and appliances, including medical gas and vacuum systems, electrical systems, gas equipment, and features of fire protection.
- The code features provisions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and testing of all health care facilities—including hospitals, nursing homes, and limited care settings.
Changes to the 2012 edition of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, include:
- Revised requirements addressing the risk assessment in Chapter 4 to clarify the responsibility for conducting a risk assessment and determining risk categories
- Expanded Chapter 5 requirements to now allow for the use of oxygen concentrators as central supply sources for piped medical gas systems
- Revised rule making corrugated medical tubing now a permitted material for medical gas and vacuum systems
- Completely reorganized Chapter 6 to group-related requirements, allowing for the deletion of duplicated requirements for different types of EES
- Revised Chapter 7, now including requirements for wireless phone and paging integration as well as for clinical information systems
- Revised Chapter 14, compiling all of the requirements for inspection, testing, and maintenance for hyperbaric facilities into one section
- New Chapter 15, Dental Gas and Vacuum Piping Systems, dedicated to the application of piped gas and vacuum systems for these systems that do not always readily fall under the requirements for medical gas and vacuum, as addressed in Chapter 5
- Inclusion of requirements for fire extinguisher selection in Chapter 16 for spaces unique to health care facilities
About NFPA
NFPA is known as the trusted source of safety knowledge, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been helping to solve some of the planet’s toughest safety problems for more than 125 years. To remain relevant for over a century as a knowledge and information organization, we’ve continually evolved our scope of expertise—from fire prevention, wildfire preparedness, and electrical safety to hazardous materials, community risk reduction, and public safety.
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Specifications
| Weight | 2 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 11 × 8.5 × 31.5 in |
- Publisher: NFPA
- Edition/Release Date: August 15, 2011
- ISBN: 9781455901029
- Pages: 211
- Format: Paperback / Softbound
- Target Audience: Professionals
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