This customizable document, Anesthetizing Locations, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Life Safety and Interim Life Safety Management Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

Health care organizations around the world utilize MCN’s compliant ready templates and workflow process tools to help them meet the latest changes in regulations and standards.

Here is some sample content from Anesthetizing Locations:

	POLICY: The hazards involved in the use of inhalation anesthetic agents can be successfully mitigated only when all of the areas of hazard are fully recognized by all personnel, and when the physical protection provided is complete and is augmented by attention to detail by all personnel having any responsibility for the functioning of anesthetizing locations. Administration shall adopt or correlate regulations and standard operating procedures to ensure that both the physical qualities and the operating maintenance methods pertaining to anesthetizing locations meet the standards set in NFPA...
Second excerpt:
	...conform with NFPA 99 5-4.1, while all flammable anesthetizing areas shall conform with NFPA 99 5-4.2. The use of germicides shall comply with 12-4.1.2.2. Electrical safeguards, connections, testing and systems shall comply with NFPA 99 12-4.1.2.4,.5,.6,.9. Gases supplied to and within anesthetizing areas shall comply with NFPA 99 12-4.1.2.7. FIRE LOSS PREVENTION: An evaluation shall be made of hazards that may be encountered during all surgical procedures, including those associated with...