Keith Hamer, an asset management system specialist, currently group vice-president, Asset Management and Engineering, at Sodexo, and Kevin Main, marketing director at asset management solutions learning consultancy, Asset Wisdom, look at an important new international asset management standard, launched earlier this year, that they believe many in the healthcare estates and facilities management community managers may, as yet, have little, if any, knowledge of.
At The Royal College of Surgeons in London in February this year, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) officially unveiled the new international standard for Asset Management – ISO 55000. (www.tinyurl.com/pe2ubvp). Facilities managers have long recognised that hospitals and care systems employ a complex mix of assets that need to be integrated and utilised efficiently and effectively for the achievement of excellence in patient care.
Few facilities managers, however, see themselves as asset managers – a term more commonly associated with those managing physical infrastructure assets in sectors like oil and gas. As a result, few are aware f the launch of the ISO 55000 Asset Management Standard and its particular relevance to them.
This article argues that the Standard – the result of over three years of collaboration between representatives from over 70 countries – is an essential element of the toolkit for FM professionals operating in the health sector. The Standard, which comprises three parts – ISO 55000, 55001, and 55002 – offers the opportunity for the facilities manager to establish the minimum requirements for a joined- up, whole lifecycle, asset management system.
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