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This tool helps determine the appropriate special locking arrangement to permit compliant egress in the event of a fire alarm activation.

Use the energy control procedure form to provide detailed information on lock usage and other important information on the specific equipment or machinery involved and the energy source being controlled.

Get ready for CMS surveys with our Hospital CMS Tag Checklists and Crosswalks. Download our resources now to ensure compliance and safety in your facility.

Improve patient safety with our temperature and humidity control tool. Download the draft policy based on ASHRAE's white paper.

This water management tool is a gap analysis worksheet to assist facilities in implementing and maintaining a compliant water management program.

Learn how implementing a PdM program can reduce maintenance costs by 8-12% compared to preventive maintenance.

Use this worksheet to periodically check for reactive maintenance concerns that could be wasting time and energy. Focusing first on squeaky wheels (reactive maintenance) makes your energy program more relevant to the daily work and problems faced by your maintenance team. Get your RCx agent or energy team leader involved in this process, along with your AC supervisor and mechanics.

Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals) contains all CMS requirements and survey guidance for a hospital alternate equipment maintenance (AEM) program. These risk assessment factors are generally not the same as the more common factors that hospitals have used in the past for utility system risk assessments.

ASHE's medical air testing tool is the key to a reliable and efficient medical gas system.

Delay inspection, testing, and maintenance requirements during COVID-19. Download the waiver template and recommendations table.

ASHE’s “Life Safety Decommissioning Tool” breaks down a number of life safety features no longer required by code, as well as recommendations to either decommission or maintain these features.

Although the primary role of hospital engineering and maintenance staff is to service and maintain the building and equipment, it also plays an important role in preventing infections and other safety issues. By being constantly aware of their surroundings and watching for issues that can increase the risk of infection and other dangers, facility professionals can do even more to improve the safety of their buildings. This checklist provides a guide they can use as they walk through their facilities.

Ensure that preventive maintenance operations are ingrained into the building of new facilities, a health care project management best practice.

The performance of hazard surveillance rounds, as it relates to indoor air quality (IAQ), provides a key opportunity to identify IAQ issues. ASHE's “Indoor Air Quality Checklist Tool” can be used to supplement hazard surveillance rounds and incorporate items related to IAQ.

This downloadable Word document is a sample monthly log for maintaining special ventilation rooms.DOWNLOAD NOW

Taming building automation system alarm fatigue

Determine which requirements can be completed in-house and the possible cost benefits of each.

Door Inspection Tool 2019.