The NFPA 99 Code provides minimum requirements for the ________ for facilities, material, equipment, and appliances, including other hazards associated with the primary hazards.

• A. Engineering and architecture
• B. Maintenance and testing
• C. Performance and safe practices
• D. Both B and C

Answer: (D)

NFPA 99 focuses on the ongoing safety management of health-care facility systems, requiring minimum standards for how systems are maintained, tested, and operated. It specifies maintenance and testing to verify that facilities, materials, equipment, and appliances remain functional and safe over time. It also defines performance and safe practices to describe how those systems should perform and how to manage hazards associated with the primary hazards. Together, these areas ensure both the regular upkeep and the proper, safe operation of critical healthcare systems. Therefore, both maintenance and testing and performance and safe practices are addressed.