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Released- Healthcare Fire Protection and Facility Management Solutions with Legacy FM

Episode Summary

Overseeing a facility, a campus or other building complexes come with a variety of challenges, ranging from staffing to training, to compliance on health, environmental, and fire safety.

In Episode 26, Drew sits down with Joshua and Lindsey Brackett, co-founders of Legacy FM, to discuss facility management and fire protection in healthcare facilities. Both have deep backgrounds in the facility management world and sit on various committees with ASHE and NFPA. Legacy FM has started empowering through specific strategies for facility needs.

Within the episode, Joint Commission regulations and healthcare fire protection are discussed, including best practices to manage contractors, engineers, and facility staff. Josh and Lindsey provide a wealth of knowledge, and providing free access to training materials are key to their message. Recently they have both started posting training and technical videos on LinkedIn and other social media channels.

Timestamps

  • 2:30 - Introductions
  • 5:45 - Legacy FM
  • 11:00 - NICET
  • 16:10 - Fire Protection Contractors / Bidding
  • 21:00 - Healthcare codes / Joint Commission
  • 27:30 - NFPA 4
  • 28:30 - Technical Blip (Sorry)
  • 29:00 - NFPA 4 / ASHE
  • 33:00 - Data in Fire Protection / NFPA Research Foundation
  • 37:55 - Book with ASHE
  • 42:25 - Legacy FM and ASHE - YouTube Channel
  • 50:45 - Quick Response Round

Full Transcript

Drew Slocum: (00:10):

This is episode 26 of the Fire Protection Podcast, powered by Inspect Point. Today, my guests are Joshua and Lindsey, Brackett of Legacy fm, and a bunch, bunch of other different hats as well. Uh, they’re both co-founders of, uh, legacy fm, which is a, um, it’s kind of a, a, a platform or a tool or consulting that, uh, works with facility managers to really empower, uh, their engineers, their facility, uh, maintenance staff to really look at, um, uh, operating and protecting a facility, uh, in a certain way. So there’s a lot of training. There’s a lot of, um, uh, just orientating your, your, your team in a certain way. So it was, it was really cool to learn about what they’re doing there. Haven’t really seen that much on the facility management side. Uh, Josh is also heavily involved in fire protection, uh, since on a bunch of N F P A committees.

(01:08)
Um, we get into that as well as hes, uh, I think both of them are involved with, uh, uh, a book for Ashe, uh, coming out in healthcare with, um, with fire protection and beyond with ashe. So that was a, it’s a pretty cool thing, um, that they’re, they’re working on. Josh is also, um, uh, runs a, a special project team at Baptist Health. Uh, a lot of in fire protection, but a lot of it in facilities maintenance. So both him and Lindsey have great backgrounds in, in facilities management, so it was great to talk to them. Uh, halfway through the podcast, there are some audio blips and blips, uh, so I do apologize for that. But I got re-recording on the, the classic, uh, h

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