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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.

These resources, compiled by Lorissa MacAllister, Ph.D., AIA, LEED AP, founder and president of Enviah, Grand Rapids, Mich., provide health facilities managers and other health care professionals with information they need to organize data and develop tools for day-to-day facility operations.

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.

The Ventilation Management Plan (VMP) aims to create a comprehensive strategy to help health care facilities test and maintain all areas that require any type of ventilation management.

Learn how to locate potential hazards during a fire watch with our comprehensive checklist and guidelines. Ensure the safety of your premises.

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.

An effective preventive maintenance work flow should begin from the beginning of a construction project. ASHE’s “Construction to Maintenance Work Flow Tool” provides a diagram to help ensure that preventive maintenance operations are ingrained into the building of new facilities.

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