This session, by the NFPA 110/111 Technical Committee Chairman and a leading authority on emergency power in hospitals, will remove confusion, providing clear and concise guidance on the NFPA 110 and 111 requirements.

Emergency power needs to operate when it is needed, where it is needed, and for as long as it is needed. Rather than just repeating the words in the standard, this session will focus on understanding their meaning, the rationale behind the requirements, and the impact of NFPA 110 and 111 to the real-world necessity of emergency power reliability.

The testing and maintenance provisions of NFPA 110 and 111 are often misunderstood. EPSS and SEPSS maintenance will be discussed in detail, including detailed failure modes and maintenance recommendations for generators, transfer switches, paralleling switchgear, and storage batteries.

Since the NFPA Conference TCR Sessions will occur 1 month before the ASHE Annual Conference, this session will be able to cover the changes and any controversies related to NFPA 110-2009 and NFPA 111-2009. The speaker will cover changes to NFPA 110/111 that are likely to have the most impact on hospitals as we move forward. This discussion of proposed changes will include proposers rationale where relevant, and the speakers opinion as to projected impact of the changes on Utility Management Programs.

Since NFPA 110 does not exist in a vacuum, comparisons will be made between NFPA 110 and regulatory requirements, especially the new 2009 Emergency Management requirements.

If desired by the Annual Conference Planning Task Force, this session could be expanded to include the following, but some extra time would be required:
Topics include maintenance program components, preventive maintenance scheduling, predictive maintenance, and infrared thermography. Detailed failure modes and maintenance recommendations are discussed for electrical connections, switchboards, motor control centers, electrical protective devices, circuit breakers, insulation, electrical rooms, transformers, medium voltage equipment, motors, generators, transfer switches, paralleling switchgear, emergency power supply system failures, diesel fuel oil contamination, and storage batteries. The session also includes arc flash hazards, flash hazard analysis, and hazard marking.