NFPA 110 and 111 Versions

What version of NFPA 110 and 111 should we be using as a regulatory reference? 

SEPSS testing and UPS’s

There is often confusion about whether the EC.02.05.07 EP3 SEPSS testing requirements apply to the ubiquitous hospital UPS’s that are powered by the emergency power “branches” (life safety branch, critical branch, and equipment system.)

The short answer is that a UPS that gets its power from an EPSS (Emergency Power Supply System) is not a SEPSS. Therefore SEPSS testing requirements do not apply to such UPS’s. Be careful though, you still need to maintain and test any of your non-SEPSS UPS’s that are critical for operations during a power failure in accordance with Note 1 of EC.02.05.07, EP3.

Power Play: NFPA Updates Standards to Improve Emergency Systems

By David Stymiest, P.E., FASHE, CHFM

The National Fire Protection Association recently published the latest editions of NFPA 110 (Standard on Emergency Power Supplies) and NFPA 111 (Standard on Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems), each of which features changes of vital interest to health facility professionals.

It is unlikely that the 2010 editions of these standards, for which the Technical Committee (TC) on Emergency Power Supplies has primary responsibility, will be imposed on accredited health facilities right away. Both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC) invoke earlier editions that are mandatory references through the 2000 NFPA 101 Life Safety Code^®.


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