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Q: During a recent consultation survey, the nurse consultant traced a patient to a general medical floor. She made the comment that all soiled work room…
Q: How does one handle a "Soiled Utility" room in an Ambulatory Healthcare Occupancy? If it is a small storage room without large volumes of flammable…
Q: Do business occupancy buildings with soiled utility rooms have to be one-hour fire-rated or just sprinkled if the building falls under a hospital…
Q: Is it a requirement that all units have a soiled utility room?
Q: Is it required that all soiled utility rooms have a dedicated sink for handwashing only?
Q: What is the protocol to maintain a soiled utility room on a patient floor? What guidelines have to be met?
Q: Are you aware of any door signage requirements for soiled utility rooms and/or trash rooms?
Q: Where is the reference in the Life Safety Code that requires the doors to housekeeping or soiled utility rooms to be locked? I have a Risk Management…
Q: We plan to take an existing small closet and make it into a new soiled linen room. It measures approximately 35 square feet and I plan to construct…
Q: Do soiled utility room doors have to be locked all the time? I was informed by our VP Quality Assurance that all of the soiled utility room doors must…