* EC: –  Environment of Care and Life Safety: Questions from the field answered by Joint Commission experts  [Pearl: CJCP, EOC, SFT] EC News October 2013, Vol 16, #12, Pg 8 JCe1312_B6

The article presents 6 practice questions that relate to the following standards:
• EC.02.05.07 – Emergency power systems. (How to test a non-emergency generator?)
• EC.02.06.01 – Safe, functional environment (Are artificial plants allowable?)
• EC.01.01.01 – Planning for EOC (Who manages/oversees the EOC?)
• EC.02.02.01, MM.01.03.01, LD.04.03.09 – Managing HazMat Risks (Can outside vendors transport HazMat?)
• LS.02.01.20 – Means of egress (Who is your ‘Authority Having Jurisdiction’ for fire code approval?)
• LS.02.01.20 – Means of egress (OK to leave a med cart in a hallway?)
Tip: Select questions from among this group and others (see also SPHCC Test/Q&A Custom Information Feed) to create mock tracer probes and pre-survey quizzes for your engineers and others.