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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.

While Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is not a new tool for disinfection, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought it to the forefront of discussions again. UV radiation, with sufficient intensity and contact time, can inactivate viruses and bacteria through three main approaches: air, water and surface. One of the applications of UV lamp includes being used in HVAC systems.

Make facility master planning easier with our sample template. Customize your plan using our subcategories. Join ASHE for more resources and support.

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.

Taking a good look at eyewash station requirements such as when and where to place eyewash stations in health care facilities.

Classification schemas are designed to provide health care planners, designers, and operators with a common nomenclature, and to generate these benefits for health care facilities departments.

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

The pre-disaster self-assessment consists of an assessment of critical infrastructure and an estimate of evacuation time.

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

Door Inspection Tool 2019.

Every facilities manager, design engineer, code enforcement official, etc. knows by heart a particular line of code they want changed. However, for many reasons including, lack of time, lack of understanding the process, or thinking someone else will change it, so few are proactive in the code/standard development process. Being proactive in the code development process doesn’t mean that an individual must sit on a technical committee, hold advanced knowledge about a particular subject, or even be a member of the standard development organization (SDO).

This video by American Society for Health Care Engineering members at Baptist Health in Conway, Ark., teaches health care facility managers to work with hospital staff to ensure a joyous – and safe – holiday season.

In this video a clean storage room is closely examined. Can you identify the infection control, life safety, and environment of care issues?

In this video a nurse's station is very active during a typical day. Can you identify the infection control, life safety, and environment of care issues?