NFPA 99

Health Care Facilities Code
2018 Edition
This edition of NFPA 99,Health Care Facilities Code, was prepared by the Technical Committees onElectrical Systems, Fundamentals, Health Care Emergency Management and Security, Hyperbaricand Hypobaric Facilities, Mechanical Systems, Medical Equipment, and Piping Systems, released bythe Correlating Committee on Health Care Facilities, and acted on by NFPA at its June AssociationTechnical Meeting held June 47, 2017, in Boston, MA. It was issued by the Standards Council onAugust 17, 2017, with an effective date of September 6, 2017, and supersedes all previous editions.
This document has been amended by one or more Tentative Interim Amendments (TIAs) and/orErrata. See "Codes & Standards" at www.nfpa.org for more information.
This edition of NFPA 99 was approved as an American National Standard on September 6, 2017.
Origin and Development of NFPA 99
The idea for this document grew as the number of documents under the original NFPACommittee on Hospitals grew. By the end of 1980, there existed 12 documents on a variety ofsubjects, 11 directly addressingre-relatedproblems in and about health care facilities. Thesedocuments covered health care emergency preparedness, inhalation anesthetics, respiratory therapy,laboratories in health-related institutions, hyperbaric facilities, hypobaric facilities, inhalationanesthetics in ambulatory care facilities, home use of respiratory therapy, medicalsurgical vacuumsystems in hospitals, essential electrical systems for health care facilities, safe use of electricity inpatient care areas of health care facilities, and safe use of high-frequency electricity in health carefacilities.
A history on the documents that covered these topics can be found in the "Origin andDevelopment of NFPA 99" in the 1984 edition of NFPA 99. What was then the Health Care FacilitiesCorrelating Committee reviewed the matter beginning in late 1979 and concluded that combiningall the documents under its jurisdiction would bebenecialto those who used those documents, forthe following reasons:
(1)The referenced documents were being revised independently of each other. Combining all
the individual documents into one document would place all of them on the same revisioncycle.
(2)It would place in one unit many documents that referenced each other.
(3)It would be an easier and more complete reference for the various users of the document
(e.g., hospital engineers, medical personnel, designers and architects, and the various typesof enforcing authorities).
To learn if this proposal was desired or desirable to users of the individual documents, theCommittee issued a request for public comments in the spring of 1981, asking whether purchasers ofthe individual documents utilized more than one document in the course of their activities andwhether combining these individual documents would bebenecial.Seventy-vepercent ofresponses supported such a proposal, with 90 percent of health care facilities and organizationssupportive of it. Based on this support, the Correlating Committee proceeded with plans to combineall the documents under its jurisdiction into one document.
In January, 1982, a compilation of the latest edition of each of the 12 individual documents underthe jurisdiction of the correlating committee was published. It was designated NFPA 99,Health CareFacilities Code. The correlating committee also entered the document into the revision cycle reportingto the 1983 Fall Meeting for the purpose of formally adopting the document.
For the 1984 edition of NFPA 99, in addition to technical changes, administrative andorganizational changes were made.

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