By Heidi Schwartz, on November 22, 2005, at 8:56 am United Rentals, Inc. has launched United Rentals Certified Auctions on eBay. This service hopes to offer a steady stream of quality used equipment – from skid steer loaders, mini-excavators and aerial lifts, to generators, welders, and more.
For TFM‘s coverage of this issue, see “We Need MRO Equipment, Stat!” by Laurence Toney.
“We are continually upgrading our equipment fleet to provide rental customers with the latest models to meet their needs,” says Michael Kneeland, executive vice president of operations for United Rentals. “We regularly have a large inventory of used equipment that has been maintained by our technicians which
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By Heidi Schwartz, on November 22, 2005, at 8:48 am Increasingly, firms are finding that their growth and success are really constrained by their ability to recruit and retain talent. “As firms continue to compete for top talent, it has become even more important to create work environments that truly espouse best workplace practices,” says Sarita Peng, a principal with ZweigWhite. “Firms that are successful in creating an environment that truly values their employees have demonstrated higher success in recruiting and retaining top talent.”
For TFM‘s coverage of this issue, see “The Changing Footprint of the American Workplace” by Kelly Sterk and Heidi Schwartz.
Peng shares a few best
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By Heidi Schwartz, on November 22, 2005, at 8:33 am The Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) have approved a new cooperative agreement for standards development that reinforces their long-running alliance.
For TFM‘s past coverage of this issue, read “Sick Buildings: Common Causes and Sensible Solutions” by Jeffrey Entin.
Preserved and formalized in the agreement is one of the tenets of the ASHRAE-ARI relationship – that ASHRAE develops method of testing standards that describe how to perform product testing, while ARI develops rating standards that specify rating conditions and details on how to rate performance of product using
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By Heidi Schwartz, on November 21, 2005, at 8:38 am According to a new survey, Camden, NJ is the most dangerous city in the country, followed by Detroit, St. Louis, Flint, Richmond, and Baltimore. This is Camden’s second year at the top.
The safest city in the country is Newton, MA, followed by Clarkstown, NY, Amherst, NY, Mission Viejo, CA, and Brick Township, NJ.
By Heidi Schwartz, on November 21, 2005, at 7:42 am As those born between 1946 and 1964, the large ‘baby boomer’ generation, ages so to does our workforce while the labor pool shrinks. Currently, workplace injury rates for older workers are the lowest of any age group, but their fatality rate is the highest. To accommodate the aging workforce and to work to reduce fatality rates, businesses should design a safe workplace for this aging, but valuable, workforce, American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) notes, or be faced with a negative economic impact.
“Businesses must act now to accommodate and provide a safer work environment for the aging worker,
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