Facility Management and Safety Committee

The committee's areas of work are making our institution safe and secure for patients, their relatives, employees and visitors; accordingly, effectively managing the physical facility, medical and other equipment and people, reducing and controlling hazards and risks, preventing accidents and injuries, and providing safe conditions. In this context, the committee carries out the following activities:

• - Ensuring that the requirements of the legislation in force on facility management are fulfilled,
• - Ensuring that plans are created and implemented for managing risks to patients, visitors and employees (safety, security, hazardous materials, emergencies, fire, medical technology, and mechanical and plumbing systems),
• - Ensuring that risk assessments are carried out by a trained team to reduce and control facility-related risks,
• - Ensuring that a safety program is created and implemented to prevent physical injuries to people in the institution from factors such as buildings, equipment and medical technology,
• - Ensuring that a security program is created and implemented to protect people in the institution from attacks such as theft, robbery and harassment,
• - Ensuring that a program is created and implemented for the inventory, transport, storage and use of hazardous materials,
• - Developing an emergency management program to respond to emergencies, epidemics and natural or other disasters, ensuring its continuity and testing it with drills,
• - Ensuring that a program is developed and implemented for the prevention, early detection, suppression and mitigation of fires and non-fire emergencies, and for the safe evacuation of the facility.
• - Ensuring that a program is created and implemented for the inspection, testing, maintenance and calibration of medical technologies and for documenting the results,
• - Ensuring that a program is developed and implemented to keep mechanical and plumbing systems operating effectively and efficiently,
• - Ensuring that data are collected and analyzed to reduce the risks related to each of the security, safety, disaster, fire, hazardous materials, medical technology, and mechanical and plumbing programs,
• - Ensuring that all employees are trained on their duties in providing a safe facility.