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Compliance Tools
This checklist can help health care facilities inspect fire doors to ensure compliance with Joint Commission standard LS.02.01.10.
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
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
This session provides a detailed look at the many codes and standards that health care engineers must know to have a successful, code-compliant facility.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
As deadlines approach for complying with OSHA's GHS-aligned Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom 2012), environmental health and safety (EH&S) professionals' questions are becoming tougher. To better prepare you, this session examines questions frequently asked by informed EH&S professionals regarding OSHA's adoption of GHS, the resulting changes to requirements for labels and safety data sheets (SDSs), OSHA's HazCom 2012 phased-in compliance deadlines, chemical classification, SDS authoring, and other critical topics.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Speaker: George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM, CHFM, CHSP, Director of Engineering, Department of Engineering, The Joint Commission
Checklists
The ASHE CMS State Operations Manual Appendix A Crosswalk provides A-Tag information along with the related codes and standards applicable to the requirements for each A-Tag. To ensure that the tool is relevant to health care facility professionals, it focuses specifically on A-Tag requirements that affect the physical environment.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Geared toward those who are new to accreditation, this session provides an overview of the Joint Commission survey process. This presentation was recorded in July 2013.
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Speakers: George Mills, MBA, FASHE, CEM, CHFM, CHSP, Director of Engineering, Department of Engineering, The Joint Commission
Tool for Assessing Compliance with Joint Commission Life Safety Specialist Areas of Emphasis This checklist can be used to help evaluate a facility's compliance with certain elements of the 2010 Joint Commission Environment of Care and Life Safety standards that might be reviewed by a Life Safety Specialist Surveyor.