Ensuring emergency power system performance
This article first appeared in the February 2012 issue of HFM Magazine.
By David L. Stymiest, P.E., FASHE, CHFM
Like all other mission-critical systems, emergency power systems should be commissioned to attain the necessary operational reliability.Emergency power system commissioning (Cx) can be considered a documented quality assurance program that finds and resolves potential emergency power system-related problems before patients are admitted and procedures are performed.
Emergency power system Cx is not the same as doing walk-throughs of the emergency power system and creating punch lists. Punch lists simply report what their preparers observed to be incorrect; whereas the Cx process can document that the installed equipment and systems are correct.
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