This Standard provides requirements for the planning, design, construction, comissioning, operation,and maintenance of HVAC systems in HCFs. In general, these requirements are more stringent than those applied to non-health care facilities. Note: See Annex A for general guidelines on HVAC system design. Table 1 provides specjfic design parameters for HVAC systems.

This Standard specifies requirements for sharps containers intended to hold potentially hazardous sharps medical waste with or without sharps protection features, e.g., scalpel blades, trocars, hypodermic needles, and syringes.

This Standard specifies requirements for the design, testing, performance, marking, and instructions for use of full body harnesses. Full body harnesses are intended for use as body supports in personal fall-arrest systems and in other work situations that involve the risk of falling.

This Standard specifies criteria for establishing a security management program for petroleum and natural gas industry systems to ensure security threats and associated risks are identified and managed.This Standard provides mitigation and response processes and procedures to prevent and minimize the impact of security incidents that could adversely affect people, the environment, assets, and economic

The purpose of this Standard is to provide guidance in the selection of preferred numbers for use in standardization, rationalization, and size selection, leading to a degree of variety control that would othewise be difficult or impossible.