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Checklists
This document provides a checklist for hospitals to document the inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire safety equipment and fire safety building systems. DOWNLOAD TOOL    
Checklists
This downloadable Word document is a sample pressure relationship policy you can customize to fit the needs of your facility. DOWNLOAD NOW
Checklists
This downloadable Word document is a sample monthly log for maintaining special ventilation rooms. DOWNLOAD NOW
This PowerPoint presentation details LS.02.01.20 and locking requirements included in the Life Safety Code. DOWNLOAD NOW
NFPA HITF interpretations, June 2010 on floor/ceiling assembly for occupancy separation, exit access from suites, fire doors, sprinkler clearance at perimeter. DOWNLOAD NOW
Guides/Reports
This 2013 ASHE Advocacy Report features articles on the unique hospital environment, improving codes and standards, and ways to get involved.
Monograph
This monograph provides a detailed comparison between the 2000, 2012, 2015, and 2018 editions of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code® and the 2015 and 2018 editions of the International Building Code.
Compliance Tools
This training video provides a brief explanation on how temperature and relative humidity affect one another. How to buy/build your own beaker set  
Data & Insights
ASHE is developing resources to help members comply with new Conditions of Participation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires routine inspections of fire doors performed by "qualified persons." You don't need to have a special certification or third party training to be qualified, but ASHE is working to provide members with the information they need to create and implement door inspection and maintenance programs.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Barrier Management Symposium Video Series Improve your barrier management strategies and avoid some of the top citations through this video series. Then, take the following quiz to earn 12 CECs. "A great resource for all frontline staff, contractors, and healthcare leaders."
Compliance Tools
ILSM-ICRA precautions daily monitoring checklist A checklist for monitoring compliance with infection control risk assessment (ICRA) precautions used as interim life safety measures. Intended to be used daily.  Download Tool  word  
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Recorded June, 2016 Speaker: Tim Adams This video outlines changes made in 2016 to the CMS Conditions of Participation regulating health care facilities. ASHE members can share this resource with others, including health care executives within their facilities, to explain the codes and standards process and outline major changes recently made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.  
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Speakers Ronald Gorham, Frank Peropat
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Recorded December 4, 2013 Speaker: Mike Daniel, President of Daniel Consulting, Ltd. This webinar provides a brief overview of the 2012 edition of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code® with specific emphasis on health care occupancy chapters. General information related to chapter content and requirements will be discussed, but the main focus of the session will be on major changes between the 2000 and 2012 editions of NFPA 101 and their benefit to health care facilities.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
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On-Demand Educational Webinars
Speakers: Anne Guglielmo, CFPS, LEED AP, Engineer and chief FSES reviewer, The Joint Commission; and Chad Beebe, AIA, CHFM, CFPS, CBO, SASHE, Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy, ASHE ACCESS THE ASHE FSES TOOL Recorded February 10, 2015
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On-Demand Educational Webinars
Recorded October 26, 2015 This webinar features George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM, CHFM, director of the Department of Engineering at the Joint Commission, and ASHE Senior Associate Director of Advocacy Jonathan Flannery, CHFM, FASHE, MHSA, FACHE. The webinar discusses the collaboration between ASHE and the Joint Commission to create new compliance resources.    
On-Demand Educational Webinars
All three parts of this webinar series are available for members by clicking below.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Recorded February 24, 2016 Speakers: William E. Koffel, P.E., FSFPE and Lennon A. Peake, P.E. This webinar will highlights the impact of the 2012 edition of NFPA 101 will have on existing health care facilities and the rationale behind the changes from the 2000 edition. This webinar is sponsored by Koffel Associates and Grainger. DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION