Barrier Management for Compliance in Healthcare | Lunch & Learn

Managing barriers in today’s healthcare facility can be a challenge. During construction, having the correct design for sustainability is often overlooked. After the building is handed over, there is a multitude of processes related to barriers and in any given week, a variety of trades and hospital personnel interact with those barriers. In many cases, the approach to handling compliance issues is reactive. This approach is costly and really does not supply a true compilation of work being performed. In order to implement a protocol for managing vendors.

The process should document all barriers and penetrations and ensure quality control throughout closeout inspection. The protocol should have an accurate, up to date accounting of who, what, when, where and how installations, maintenance and inspections in each barrier. Locations of these applications should be documented, providing the facility with a roadmap moving forward. With tightened budgets, increased regulatory requirements, and reduced staffing, maintaining these barriers by implementing a barrier management protocol saves time, money and resources.

Learner objectives:

• Summarize what a solid standard will provide to the facility. This makes expectations clear for all that have line of sight to fire, smoke and acoustical barriers.
• Define why passive fire protection is such a critical component to life safety and code compliance. We will dive into the differences between the multiple construction processes used for building of rated barriers.
• Provide a roadmap of what should be detailed in a PCRA and why. Making sure the applications chosen will provide a sustainable process for compliance.
• How a grid connected microgrid can serve both the host customer’s resiliency needs as well as support grid stability.
• Identify tool, best practices and procedures to achieve compliance in fire, smoke and acoustical assemblies during all phases of the building life cycle.

Speakers:

Kelly Mason
Director of Healthcare Partners,
Specified Technologies, Inc.