By Heidi Schwartz, on December 26, 2005, at 9:39 am To enhance emergency response to sudden cardiac arrest victims and help reduce customer liability risk, Defibtech today introduced DefibtechMD – a comprehensive AED management and medical oversight program for the deployment of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public facilities, workplaces, schools, medical and dental offices, police and fire/EMS organizations, and commercial buildings.
For TFM‘s coverage of this issue, see “Not Just Another Day At The Office.”
DefibtechMD complements the value of a lifesaving AED with all of the services associated with any successful AED initiative, including medical direction, Web-based tracking, recommended maintenance, and AED/CPR training. “DefibtechMD is a full-service
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By Heidi Schwartz, on December 22, 2005, at 11:11 am The New York City Department of Buildings recently issued its Reference Standard RS 6-1 and RS 6-1A in relation to photoluminescent exit path markings. By June 30, 2006, all Type E commercial hi-rise buildings of eight or more stories must comply with rigorous specifications concerning installation of photoluminescent markings to aid in evacuation in the event of failure of both the power and back-up power to lighting and illuminated exit signs, as per Local Law 26 of 2004 in order to maintain their Certificate of Occupancy.
Randall Weis, president of RD Weis Companies, a full-service flooring contractor scrutinized the
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By Heidi Schwartz, on December 22, 2005, at 9:23 am (Friday Funny…just a little early for everyone who will be off tomorrow)
Since many facility managers have engineering backgrounds, I thought I’d send along this link to a very extravagant holiday light show. As this Snopes article explains, the gentleman who set this up (an electrical engineer), has since been forced to discontinue his light show after it caused severe traffic problems leading to an accident in his neighborhood. Bah, humbug!
Still, at least we can all enjoy it on the Web!
By Heidi Schwartz, on December 19, 2005, at 7:30 pm UNICCO Service Company announced an expansion to its UNICCO GreenClean program. Following a year of active new account startups and customer conversions to green cleaning and services, UNICCO is launching a new GreenClean operations kit and a newly designed Web site for customers, prospects, and the industry. Further delivering on its “Guaranteed Clean. Certifiably Green” mission, the company is also launching the UNICCO GreenClean Compliant certification program for qualified customers.For TFM‘s coverage of this topic, see “Life Cycle Management” from the archives.
“At UNICCO, we are well down the road on environmental practices,” says George Lohnes, UNICCO vice president.
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By Anne Vazquez, on December 19, 2005, at 8:35 am Aging or unchecked grounding raises the risk of data/equipment loss, process anomalies, plant shutdown, and more. The Smart Ground Testing method can minimize these risks while overcoming traditional grounding test flaws. The following article discusses this method and how it can help facility managers address potential problems.
By Del Williams
Thirty years ago, Hank Aaron was still playing baseball, the first programmable pocket calculator became available, and the word “Internet” appeared for the first time in print. Unless your plant still uses the identical technology it did 30, 20, even 10 years ago (when Google didn’t yet exist), then
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