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Mike
Emergency Electrical Power
I. PURPOSE:
The purpose of this policy is to prevent the emergency power systems from becoming overloaded during a power failure from the public utility electrical service.
II. SCOPE:
This policy applies to all physicians, staff, patients, volunteers, and visitors in Clarian Health facilities
III. DEFINITIONS:
A. Branch Circuit. The circuit conductors between the final overcurrent device (circuit breakers) protecting the circuit and the outlet(s).
B. Critical Branch: A subsystem of the emergency system consisting of feeders and branch circuits supplying energy to task illumination, special power circuits, and selected receptacles serving areas and functions related to patient care, and which are connected to alternate power sources by one or more transfer switches during interruption of the normal power source.
C. Electrical Life-Support Equipment: Electrically powered equipment whose continuous operation is necessary to maintain a patient?s life.
D. Emergency Power receptacles: Electrical receptacles that are either painted red, orange or blue or labeled as such.
E. Emergency System: A system of feeders and branch circuits meeting the requirements of Article 700 (Emergency System), except as amended by Article 517 (Health Care Facilities), and intended to supply alternate power to a limited number of prescribed functions vital to the protection of life and patient safety, with automatic restoration of electrical power within 10 seconds of power interruption.
F. Equipment. A general term including material, fittings, devices, appliances, luminaries (fixtures), apparatus, and the like used as a part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.
G. Feeder. All circuit conductors between the service equipment, the source of a separately derived system, or other power supply source and the final branch-circuit overcurrent device.
H. Generator: A diesel power motor that turns mechanical energy into electrical energy. That shell automatically starts on failure of the normal service and for automatic transfer and operation of all required electrical circuits.
I. Life Safety Branch: A subsystem of the emergency system consisting of feeders and branch circuits, meeting the requirements of Article 700 and intended to provide adequate power needs to ensure safety to patients and personnel, and which are automatically connected to alternate power sources during interruption of the normal power source.
J. NEC: National Electrical Code
K. NFPA: National Fire Protection Association
L. Normal Power: Normal electrical power provide by the public utility electrical service
M. Overload: Operation of equipment in excess of normal, full-load rating, or of a conductor in excess of rated ampacity that, when it persists for a sufficient length of time, would cause damage or dangerous overheating. A fault, such as a short circuit or ground fault, is not an overload.
N. Power Failure: When the public utility electrical service quits producing electrical power, or a piece of main electric equipment beaks down.
O. Receptacle Identification. The cover plates for the electrical receptacles or the electrical receptacles themselves supplied from the emergency system shall have a distinctive color (red, orange or blue) or marking so as to be readily identifiable.
P. Selected Receptacles: A minimum number of electric receptacles to accommodate appliances ordinarily required for local tasks or likely to be used in patient care emergencies.
Q. Shall. Indicates a mandatory requirement. [NFPA 99: 3.2.7]
R. Task Illumination: Provision for the minimum lighting required carrying out necessary tasks in the described areas, including safe access to supplies and equipment, and access to exits.
IV. POLICY STATEMENTS:
No unauthorized equipment shell to be plugged in to the emergency power plugs, without written approve from Hospital Facilities.
i.e.
Coffee makers
TV?s, radios
Copy machines
Microwaves ovens
Refrigerator
Space heaters
Computers and printers (not used in direct patient care)
Or other non-Critical equipment
V. EXCEPTIONS:
Any exceptions or deviations from this policy shell be at the sole discretion of the Director of Facilities
VI. CROSS REFERENCE:
NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2005 Edition
ARTICLE 517 Health Care Facilities,
NFPA 99, Standard for Health Care Facilities, 2002 Edition
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2003 Edition
517.31 Emergency System.
Those functions of patient care depending on lighting or appliances that are connected to the emergency system shall be divided into two mandatory branches: the life safety branch and the critical branch, described in 517.32 and 517.33.
The branches of the emergency system shall be installed and connected to the alternate power source so that all functions specified herein for the emergency system shall be automatically restored to operation within 10 seconds after interruption of the normal source. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.2.1, 4.4.3.1]
517.32 Life Safety Branch.
No function other than those listed in 517.32(A) through (G) shall be connected to the life safety branch. The life safety branch of the emergency system shall supply power for the following lighting, receptacles, and equipment.
(A) Illumination of Means of Egress. Illumination of means of egress, such as lighting required for corridors, passageways, stairways, and landings at exit doors, and all necessary ways of approach to exits. Switching arrangements to transfer patient corridor lighting in hospitals from general illumination circuits to night illumination circuits shall be permitted, provided only one of two circuits can be selected and both circuits cannot be extinguished at the same time.
See NFPA 101-2003, Life Safety Code, 7.8 and 7.9.
(B) Exit Signs. Exit signs and exit directional signs.
See NFPA 101-2003, Life Safety Code, 7.10.
(C) Alarm and Alerting Systems. Alarm and alerting systems including the following:
(1) Fire alarms
See NFPA 101-2003, Life Safety Code, 9.6 and 18.3.4.
(2) Alarms required for systems used for the piping of nonflammable medical gases
See NFPA 99-2002, Standard for Health Care Facilities, 4.4.2.2.2.2(3)].
(D) Communications Systems. Hospital communications systems, where used for issuing instructions during emergency conditions.
(E) Generator Set Location. Task illumination battery charger for emergency battery-powered lighting unit(s) and selected receptacles at the generator set location.
(F) Elevators. Elevator cab lighting, control, communications, and signal systems.
(G) Automatic Doors. Automatically operated doors used for building egress. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.2.2]
517.33 Critical Branch.
(A) Task Illumination and Selected Receptacles. The critical branch of the emergency system shall supply power for task illumination, fixed equipment, selected receptacles, and special power circuits serving the following areas and functions related to patient care:
(1) Critical care areas that utilize anesthetizing gases ? task illumination, selected receptacles, and fixed equipment
(2) The isolated power systems in special environments
(3) Patient care areas ? task illumination and selected receptacles in the following:
a. Infant nurseries
b. Medication preparation areas
c. Pharmacy dispensing areas
d. Selected acute nursing areas
e. Psychiatric bed areas (omit receptacles)
f. Ward treatment rooms
g. Nurses? stations (unless adequately lighted by corridor luminaries)
(4) Additional specialized patient care task illumination and receptacles, where needed
(5) Nurse call systems
(6) Blood, bone, and tissue banks
(7) Telephone equipment rooms and closets
(8) Task illumination, selected receptacles, and selected power circuits for the following:
a. General care beds (at least one duplex receptacle per patient bedroom)
b. Angiographic labs
c. Cardiac catheterization labs
d. Coronary care units
e. Hemodialysis rooms or areas
f. Emergency room treatment areas (selected)
g. Human physiology labs
h. Intensive care units
i. Postoperative recovery rooms (selected)
(9) Additional task illumination, receptacles, and selected power circuits needed for effective hospital operation. Single-phase fractional horsepower motors shall be permitted to be connected to the critical branch. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.2.3(3)]
(B) Subdivision of the Critical Branch. It shall be permitted to subdivide the critical branch into two or more branches.
517.34 Equipment System Connection to Alternate Power Source.
The equipment system shall be installed and connected to the alternate power source such that the equipment described in 517.34(A) is automatically restored to operation at appropriate time-lag intervals following the energizing of the emergency system. Its arrangement shall also provide for the subsequent connection of equipment described in 517.34(B). [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.2]
Exception: For essential electrical systems under 150 kVA, deletion of the time-lag intervals feature for delayed automatic connection to the equipment system shall be permitted.
(A) Equipment for Delayed Automatic Connection. The following equipment shall be arranged for delayed automatic connection to the alternate power source.
(1) Central suction systems serving medical and surgical functions, including controls. Such suction systems shall be permitted on the critical branch.
(2) Sump pumps and other equipment required to operate for the safety of major apparatus, including associated control systems and alarms.
(3) Compressed air systems serving medical and surgical functions, including controls. Such air systems shall be permitted on the critical branch.
(4) Smoke control and stair pressurization systems, or both.
(5) Kitchen hood supply or exhaust systems, or both, if required to operate during a fire in or under the hood. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.4(5)]
(6) Supply, return, and exhaust ventilating systems for airborne infectious/isolation rooms, protective environment rooms, exhaust fans for laboratory fume hoods, nuclear medicine areas where radioactive material is used, ethylene oxide evacuation and anesthesia evacuation. Where delayed automatic connection is not appropriate, such ventilation systems shall be permitted to be placed on the critical branch. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.4(6)]
Exception: Sequential delayed automatic connection to the alternate power source to prevent overloading the generator shall be permitted where engineering studies indicate it is necessary.
(B) Equipment for Delayed Automatic or Manual Connection. The following equipment shall be arranged for either delayed automatic or manual connection to the alternate power source:
(1) Heating equipment to provide heating for operating, delivery, labor, recovery, intensive care, coronary care, nurseries, infection/isolation rooms, emergency treatment spaces, and general patient rooms and pressure maintenance (jockey or make-up) pump(s) for water-based fire protection systems.
Exception: Heating of general patient rooms and infection/isolation rooms during disruption of the normal source shall not be required under any of the following conditions:
(a) The outside design temperature is higher than -6.7?C (20?F).
(b) The outside design temperature is lower than -6.7?C (20?F), and where a selected room(s) is provided for the needs of all confined patients, only such room(s) need be heated.
(c) The facility is served by a dual source of normal power.
(2) An elevator(s) selected to provide service to patient, surgical, obstetrical, and ground floors during interruption of normal power. In instances where interruption of normal power would result in other elevators stopping between floors, throw-over facilities shall be provided to allow the temporary operation of any elevator for the release of patients or other persons who may be confined between floors.
(3) Hyperbaric facilities.
(4) Hypobaric facilities.
(5) Automatically operated doors.
(6) Minimal electrically heated autoclaving equipment shall be permitted to be arranged for either automatic or manual connection to the alternate source.
(7) Controls for equipment listed in 517.34.
(8) Other selected equipment shall be permitted to be served by the equipment system. [NFPA 99, 3.4.2.2.3(e)]
AC Equipment for Non-delayed Automatic Connection. Generator accessories, including but not limited to, the transfer fuel pump, electrically operated louvers, and other generator accessories essential for generator operation, shall be arranged for automatic connection to the alternate power source. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.3]
(C) Other Systems necessary for Hospitals Operations. At the discretion of the Director of Hospital Facilities, other equipment may be added to the Critical branch (equipment branch) that it?s continue operation is necessary for the contusing operation of the facilities, under an emergency power loss.
(1) Information Technology Equipment (IT or IS)
(2) Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
(3) Select workstations for accessing patent information
(4) Pneumatic tube system
(5) MedStations
(6) Building Automation System
(7) Air cooling units that support 1 throw 6
VII. PROCEDURE:
To request new installations to the emergency power systems your request shell meat the guide lines of ?NEC 517-31 throw 34? and a work order request form should be submitted to Hospital Facilities for approval.
Mike
Emergency Electrical Power
I. PURPOSE:
The purpose of this policy is to prevent the emergency power systems from becoming overloaded during a power failure from the public utility electrical service.
II. SCOPE:
This policy applies to all physicians, staff, patients, volunteers, and visitors in Clarian Health facilities
III. DEFINITIONS:
A. Branch Circuit. The circuit conductors between the final overcurrent device (circuit breakers) protecting the circuit and the outlet(s).
B. Critical Branch: A subsystem of the emergency system consisting of feeders and branch circuits supplying energy to task illumination, special power circuits, and selected receptacles serving areas and functions related to patient care, and which are connected to alternate power sources by one or more transfer switches during interruption of the normal power source.
C. Electrical Life-Support Equipment: Electrically powered equipment whose continuous operation is necessary to maintain a patient?s life.
D. Emergency Power receptacles: Electrical receptacles that are either painted red, orange or blue or labeled as such.
E. Emergency System: A system of feeders and branch circuits meeting the requirements of Article 700 (Emergency System), except as amended by Article 517 (Health Care Facilities), and intended to supply alternate power to a limited number of prescribed functions vital to the protection of life and patient safety, with automatic restoration of electrical power within 10 seconds of power interruption.
F. Equipment. A general term including material, fittings, devices, appliances, luminaries (fixtures), apparatus, and the like used as a part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.
G. Feeder. All circuit conductors between the service equipment, the source of a separately derived system, or other power supply source and the final branch-circuit overcurrent device.
H. Generator: A diesel power motor that turns mechanical energy into electrical energy. That shell automatically starts on failure of the normal service and for automatic transfer and operation of all required electrical circuits.
I. Life Safety Branch: A subsystem of the emergency system consisting of feeders and branch circuits, meeting the requirements of Article 700 and intended to provide adequate power needs to ensure safety to patients and personnel, and which are automatically connected to alternate power sources during interruption of the normal power source.
J. NEC: National Electrical Code
K. NFPA: National Fire Protection Association
L. Normal Power: Normal electrical power provide by the public utility electrical service
M. Overload: Operation of equipment in excess of normal, full-load rating, or of a conductor in excess of rated ampacity that, when it persists for a sufficient length of time, would cause damage or dangerous overheating. A fault, such as a short circuit or ground fault, is not an overload.
N. Power Failure: When the public utility electrical service quits producing electrical power, or a piece of main electric equipment beaks down.
O. Receptacle Identification. The cover plates for the electrical receptacles or the electrical receptacles themselves supplied from the emergency system shall have a distinctive color (red, orange or blue) or marking so as to be readily identifiable.
P. Selected Receptacles: A minimum number of electric receptacles to accommodate appliances ordinarily required for local tasks or likely to be used in patient care emergencies.
Q. Shall. Indicates a mandatory requirement. [NFPA 99: 3.2.7]
R. Task Illumination: Provision for the minimum lighting required carrying out necessary tasks in the described areas, including safe access to supplies and equipment, and access to exits.
IV. POLICY STATEMENTS:
No unauthorized equipment shell to be plugged in to the emergency power plugs, without written approve from Hospital Facilities.
i.e.
Coffee makers
TV?s, radios
Copy machines
Microwaves ovens
Refrigerator
Space heaters
Computers and printers (not used in direct patient care)
Or other non-Critical equipment
V. EXCEPTIONS:
Any exceptions or deviations from this policy shell be at the sole discretion of the Director of Facilities
VI. CROSS REFERENCE:
NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2005 Edition
ARTICLE 517 Health Care Facilities,
NFPA 99, Standard for Health Care Facilities, 2002 Edition
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2003 Edition
517.31 Emergency System.
Those functions of patient care depending on lighting or appliances that are connected to the emergency system shall be divided into two mandatory branches: the life safety branch and the critical branch, described in 517.32 and 517.33.
The branches of the emergency system shall be installed and connected to the alternate power source so that all functions specified herein for the emergency system shall be automatically restored to operation within 10 seconds after interruption of the normal source. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.2.1, 4.4.3.1]
517.32 Life Safety Branch.
No function other than those listed in 517.32(A) through (G) shall be connected to the life safety branch. The life safety branch of the emergency system shall supply power for the following lighting, receptacles, and equipment.
(A) Illumination of Means of Egress. Illumination of means of egress, such as lighting required for corridors, passageways, stairways, and landings at exit doors, and all necessary ways of approach to exits. Switching arrangements to transfer patient corridor lighting in hospitals from general illumination circuits to night illumination circuits shall be permitted, provided only one of two circuits can be selected and both circuits cannot be extinguished at the same time.
See NFPA 101-2003, Life Safety Code, 7.8 and 7.9.
(B) Exit Signs. Exit signs and exit directional signs.
See NFPA 101-2003, Life Safety Code, 7.10.
(C) Alarm and Alerting Systems. Alarm and alerting systems including the following:
(1) Fire alarms
See NFPA 101-2003, Life Safety Code, 9.6 and 18.3.4.
(2) Alarms required for systems used for the piping of nonflammable medical gases
See NFPA 99-2002, Standard for Health Care Facilities, 4.4.2.2.2.2(3)].
(D) Communications Systems. Hospital communications systems, where used for issuing instructions during emergency conditions.
(E) Generator Set Location. Task illumination battery charger for emergency battery-powered lighting unit(s) and selected receptacles at the generator set location.
(F) Elevators. Elevator cab lighting, control, communications, and signal systems.
(G) Automatic Doors. Automatically operated doors used for building egress. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.2.2]
517.33 Critical Branch.
(A) Task Illumination and Selected Receptacles. The critical branch of the emergency system shall supply power for task illumination, fixed equipment, selected receptacles, and special power circuits serving the following areas and functions related to patient care:
(1) Critical care areas that utilize anesthetizing gases ? task illumination, selected receptacles, and fixed equipment
(2) The isolated power systems in special environments
(3) Patient care areas ? task illumination and selected receptacles in the following:
a. Infant nurseries
b. Medication preparation areas
c. Pharmacy dispensing areas
d. Selected acute nursing areas
e. Psychiatric bed areas (omit receptacles)
f. Ward treatment rooms
g. Nurses? stations (unless adequately lighted by corridor luminaries)
(4) Additional specialized patient care task illumination and receptacles, where needed
(5) Nurse call systems
(6) Blood, bone, and tissue banks
(7) Telephone equipment rooms and closets
(8) Task illumination, selected receptacles, and selected power circuits for the following:
a. General care beds (at least one duplex receptacle per patient bedroom)
b. Angiographic labs
c. Cardiac catheterization labs
d. Coronary care units
e. Hemodialysis rooms or areas
f. Emergency room treatment areas (selected)
g. Human physiology labs
h. Intensive care units
i. Postoperative recovery rooms (selected)
(9) Additional task illumination, receptacles, and selected power circuits needed for effective hospital operation. Single-phase fractional horsepower motors shall be permitted to be connected to the critical branch. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.2.3(3)]
(B) Subdivision of the Critical Branch. It shall be permitted to subdivide the critical branch into two or more branches.
517.34 Equipment System Connection to Alternate Power Source.
The equipment system shall be installed and connected to the alternate power source such that the equipment described in 517.34(A) is automatically restored to operation at appropriate time-lag intervals following the energizing of the emergency system. Its arrangement shall also provide for the subsequent connection of equipment described in 517.34(B). [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.2]
Exception: For essential electrical systems under 150 kVA, deletion of the time-lag intervals feature for delayed automatic connection to the equipment system shall be permitted.
(A) Equipment for Delayed Automatic Connection. The following equipment shall be arranged for delayed automatic connection to the alternate power source.
(1) Central suction systems serving medical and surgical functions, including controls. Such suction systems shall be permitted on the critical branch.
(2) Sump pumps and other equipment required to operate for the safety of major apparatus, including associated control systems and alarms.
(3) Compressed air systems serving medical and surgical functions, including controls. Such air systems shall be permitted on the critical branch.
(4) Smoke control and stair pressurization systems, or both.
(5) Kitchen hood supply or exhaust systems, or both, if required to operate during a fire in or under the hood. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.4(5)]
(6) Supply, return, and exhaust ventilating systems for airborne infectious/isolation rooms, protective environment rooms, exhaust fans for laboratory fume hoods, nuclear medicine areas where radioactive material is used, ethylene oxide evacuation and anesthesia evacuation. Where delayed automatic connection is not appropriate, such ventilation systems shall be permitted to be placed on the critical branch. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.4(6)]
Exception: Sequential delayed automatic connection to the alternate power source to prevent overloading the generator shall be permitted where engineering studies indicate it is necessary.
(B) Equipment for Delayed Automatic or Manual Connection. The following equipment shall be arranged for either delayed automatic or manual connection to the alternate power source:
(1) Heating equipment to provide heating for operating, delivery, labor, recovery, intensive care, coronary care, nurseries, infection/isolation rooms, emergency treatment spaces, and general patient rooms and pressure maintenance (jockey or make-up) pump(s) for water-based fire protection systems.
Exception: Heating of general patient rooms and infection/isolation rooms during disruption of the normal source shall not be required under any of the following conditions:
(a) The outside design temperature is higher than -6.7?C (20?F).
(b) The outside design temperature is lower than -6.7?C (20?F), and where a selected room(s) is provided for the needs of all confined patients, only such room(s) need be heated.
(c) The facility is served by a dual source of normal power.
(2) An elevator(s) selected to provide service to patient, surgical, obstetrical, and ground floors during interruption of normal power. In instances where interruption of normal power would result in other elevators stopping between floors, throw-over facilities shall be provided to allow the temporary operation of any elevator for the release of patients or other persons who may be confined between floors.
(3) Hyperbaric facilities.
(4) Hypobaric facilities.
(5) Automatically operated doors.
(6) Minimal electrically heated autoclaving equipment shall be permitted to be arranged for either automatic or manual connection to the alternate source.
(7) Controls for equipment listed in 517.34.
(8) Other selected equipment shall be permitted to be served by the equipment system. [NFPA 99, 3.4.2.2.3(e)]
AC Equipment for Non-delayed Automatic Connection. Generator accessories, including but not limited to, the transfer fuel pump, electrically operated louvers, and other generator accessories essential for generator operation, shall be arranged for automatic connection to the alternate power source. [NFPA 99:4.4.2.2.3.3]
(C) Other Systems necessary for Hospitals Operations. At the discretion of the Director of Hospital Facilities, other equipment may be added to the Critical branch (equipment branch) that it?s continue operation is necessary for the contusing operation of the facilities, under an emergency power loss.
(1) Information Technology Equipment (IT or IS)
(2) Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
(3) Select workstations for accessing patent information
(4) Pneumatic tube system
(5) MedStations
(6) Building Automation System
(7) Air cooling units that support 1 throw 6
VII. PROCEDURE:
To request new installations to the emergency power systems your request shell meat the guide lines of ?NEC 517-31 throw 34? and a work order request form should be submitted to Hospital Facilities for approval.
