Showing posts with label Life Safety Drawings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Safety Drawings. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Compliance News: Current Life Safety Plans



By David Stymiest, PE, CHFM, FASHE


In In his recent ASHE Annual Conference presentation, George Mills of TJC reminded attendees about the requirements for current LS plans. Much of this information is in a related February 2012 EC News article and is summarized below.


TJC Standard LS.01.01.01, EP 2, requires an organization to have a current Statement of Conditions™ (SOC™). EP2 is scoring category A with documentation required. In order to have a current SOC™ an organization must create and maintain an up-to-date and complete Basic Building Information (BBI). Since the BBI requires organizations to indicate the location of current LS drawings, not being able to supply those current LS drawings during a survey can result in a direct impact RFI against EP2.

TJC has stated that current LS drawings must address the following topics:

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Life Safety Drawings

During a recent survey, a surveyor asked for our current LS drawings. We were unable to provide them, and the surveyor gave us a Requirement for Improvement (RFI), stating that we did not have a current Statement of Conditions (SOC). What is the link between current LS drawings and the SOC? What is required in a current set of LS drawings?