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Fire Code Compliance at your fingertips.
Rapid access to over 400 fire code requirements specific to healthcare.  An invaluable reference tool for architects, engineers, facility managers and safety managers.

Healthcare facilities are complex environments for the management of regulatory compliance.  Over the years, fire code compliance particularly has confounded many hospital engineers, architects, and facility managers.  Differing codes such as the Life Safety Code®, International Fire Code, International Building Code, Uniform Building Code, Building Officials Code of America, and others have made it difficult, if not impossible, for organizations to fully and accurately understand with which requirements they must comply.

Five years ago, Safety Management Services, Inc. developed the Quick-Check-Fire Code poster to help ease this burden.  Thousands of healthcare professionals across the globe display this invaluable reference tool in their offices and shops for rapid reference regarding code questions.  Today, Safety Management Services, Inc. brings this very same tool to the mobile smart phone.  We have developed the QuickCheck – Fire Code mobile application to help the user quickly identify key LSC requirements relative to their facility, all within the convenient confines of your Apple IPhone or Android based smart phones.

Healthcare facilities present complex environments from all perspectives including regulatory compliance.  Over the years, fire code compliance has confounded many hospital engineers, architects, and facility managers.  Differing codes such as the Life Safety Code®, International Fire Code, International Building Code, Uniform Building Code, Building Officials Code of America, and others have made it difficult, if not impossible, for organizations to fully and accurately understand with which requirements they must comply.

In addition, there is the issue that multiple agencies surveying healthcare facilities have adopted varying editions and have their own interpretations of these same codes .  These agencies include The Joint Commission® (TJC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the State Health Department, the local Fire Department, and the local Building Department.

As if that isn’t enough, add the complicating factors of whether the building is new or existing construction, sprinklered or not sprinklered, as well as the occupancy type (e. g., hospital, ambulatory healthcare, or business).  All of this complicates the issue of discovering and understanding the fire code requirements for a specific building or institution.

Since TJC, CMS, and most State Health Departments reference NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code, and since TJC and CMS both specifically reference the 2000 edition of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, the issue of determining compliance requirements becomes slightly easier.  When hunting for code specifics, facility managers frequently leaf through and mark up, or tag all of the necessary pages. This is vital in getting through all of the cross references, definitions, and annex items.  When done, they realize they still are unsure of the exact code requirement, and every page of their book is marked up.

In order to help ease this burden, we have developed the QuickCheck – Fire Code to help the user quickly identify key LSC requirements relative to his or her facility and particular circumstance.  The QuickCheck – Fire Code is a matrix consisting of 11 occupancy type possibilities and 39 key fire protection issues found in the LSC.  It is designed to give users the ability to quickly find and have at their fingertips a multitude of code answers.