Planning for Power Failures

By David L. Stymiest, P.E., CHFM, FASHE (at ASHE 44th Annual Conference, July 2007)
  

Introduction
Without power healthcare facilities are extremely vulnerable, especially if it is for an extended period of  time. Every healthcare facility needs to have a plan in place and be prepared since there is rarely a warning before loss of power except in cases where a slow-moving hurricane or similar natural disaster is approaching.

The purpose of this paper is to offer recommendations and examples of effective power failure planning concepts, including gap analyses, emergency power risk assessments, commentary and recommendations on power failure vulnerability analyses, and other tools to improve readiness for power failures.

This paper also offers several dozen emergency management tracer-type questions on power failures to enable a healthcare organization to test its own readiness. These sample tracer-type questions address the issues discussed in this paper and in the following statement.
  
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Rx for Emergency Power Reliability

by David Stymiest, P.E., CHFM, FASHE, CEM, GBE (in Maintenance Technology)

Just because EP systems are out of sight doesn’t mean they should be out of mind. Many facilities don’t know theirs are unhealthy until they really need them. As some unlucky operations have learned, that’s too late.

What is emergency power (EP) reliability? It’s having EP available to power WHAT it needs to, WHEN it needs to, FOR AS LONG AS it needs to. That’s quite a tall order, but one that can be satisfied with a comprehensive approach.

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