NFPA-99 Historical Revision Information
Health Care Facilities Code

NFPA-99 - TIA 18-1 - SUPERSEDED
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Health Care Facilities Code

Abstract

In response to an increasingly decentralized health care system, a growing array of high-tech procedures, and new security demands, the 2012 NFPA 99 has reinvented itself to reflect a new environment where it is the risk that a procedure poses to patients and staff, not the location where it is conducted, that defines safety guidelines. Its new title -- Health Care Facilities Code -- signifies that it is rewritten to make performance criteria for health care facilities more enforceable and adoptable.

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Completely reorganized, this new benchmark advances health care facility safety with major changes such as...

    A new risk-based framework
    A fully updated Chapter 5, Gas and Vacuum Systems, including additional maintenance requirements
    New chapters on security, fire protection, and information technology
    Operating rooms are considered a wet location unless a risk assessment of the area determines otherwise.

Move up to a new level of protection and keep facilities up-to-code and patients and staff safe from harm.

The 2012 NFPA 99 is essential for engineers, facility managers...AHJs...plumbers...gas and vacuum system installers, designers, and verifiers...security personnel...insurance companies...and manufacturers.


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Document Number

NFPA-99

Revision Level

TIA 18-1

Status

Superseded

Publication Date

Aug. 17, 2017