When normal power fails, the emergency power supply system keeps a hospital running — and CMS and the accreditation bodies expect to see that it was tested. Fire Inspect Hub runs the NFPA 110 Chapter 8 inspection end to end: program verification, load testing, fuel quality, and transfer-switch operation, captured once and printed in a clean, defensible record.
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Hospitals don't evacuate during a fire — they defend in place. That strategy assumes the building keeps working: alarms, smoke control, medical equipment, and egress lighting all ride through a normal-power loss on the emergency power supply system (EPSS). If the generator doesn't start, or won't carry the load, the building has no standby power.
That's why CMS and both major accreditation bodies expect documented generator testing. NFPA 110 Chapter 8 is the recurring inspection, testing, and maintenance side of the standard — the weekly, monthly, annual, and triennial activities that prove the EPSS is ready, and the records a surveyor asks to see.
Confirm the facility's weekly and monthly EPSS inspections and battery checks were performed and logged since the last visit — the owner runs the program, you verify it's real and documented.
The under-load monthly run — at least 30 minutes — with the measured run-time and load percentage captured on the record, plus cold-start and transfer-switch operation.
For diesels that don't meet the monthly 30% load, the annual load-bank test (50% / 75% / total minutes captured), plus the annual fuel-quality test date and result.
Transfer switches operated primary → alternate → primary, multiple-ATS rotation where present, and the transfer-switch maintenance program — connections, erosion, contacts.
For Level 1 systems, the continuous triennial test for the assigned class duration with diesel load captured — shown on the form only when the system is Level 1.
The EPSS classification — Level, Class (runtime), Type (start-time), prime mover, and battery type — recorded up front so the right tests and the right duration apply.
NFPA 110 isn't only a healthcare standard. The same EPSS inspection serves commercial-property accounts with standby generators — data centers, high-rises, and any portfolio where a generator backs life-safety or critical loads.
That means a contractor running both healthcare and commercial work inspects generators the same way, in the same platform, with the same record — no second tool for the office buildings in the book.
The monthly run-time, the measured load percentage, the load-bank minutes, the fuel-test result, the triennial duration — Fire Inspect Hub captures the numbers the inspector reads off the gear and prints them on the per-asset NFPA 110 report alongside the pass/fail findings.
Severity follows the standard: a generator that won't cold-start or a transfer switch that won't transfer is treated as an impairment — no standby power — while load and duration shortfalls are scored as critical findings the inspector can escalate when the unit actually drops the load.
This is for fire protection and life-safety contractors who inspect generators and standby power systems — at hospitals and healthcare campuses, and at the commercial portfolios that run on backup power.
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