Chances are that on some floor, in some wing, your health care facility has a renovation or other construction project going on right now. Facilities must continually enforce the ILSMs once they are implemented, until the project is done or the deficiency is eliminated. As appropriate, you need to implement the ILSMs in all areas affected by a deficiency. The EC standard allows for both discretion and flexibility in creating an ILSM policy.
ILSM policies can take many forms.
Any ILSM policy should include a way to critically evaluate construction or renovation work and whether this work will affect life safety. From there, you can decide whether to use any or all the ILSMs. For example, if the construction involves the remodeling of a single room, you might not have to invoke any ILSMs, according to Kenneth Faulstich, PE , chief safety and fire protection engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs. You don't need to use every ILSM during a project. After you've evaluated the severity of the life safety deficiencies created by the project, you can determine which measures to use.