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Safety Alert: Responding to a Fire Extinguisher Mass Recall
Yesterday, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a mass recall of nearly 40 million plastic handle fire extinguishers and push-button Pindicator fire extinguishers in the United States. The CPSC released the following statement: The fire extinguishers can become clogged or require excessive force to discharge and can fail to activate during a fire emergency. Additionally, the nozzle can detach...
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Increase Operational Efficiency with Searchable Documents
Searching for documents is killing your facility team’s productivity and operational efficiency. On average, facility employees spend one to two hours searching for building management information. And we didn’t calculate that as just the time facility managers spend flipping through binders or searching for the right disk. We included the time you spend driving to the field, realizing you have the wrong...
Read MoreThe Key to Healthcare Emergency Management: Facility Managers
Did you know that the average hospital relies on federal reimbursements for about half of their revenue? To keep receiving that revenue, hospitals must comply with rules made by the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). So when those rules change, the healthcare industry should pay careful attention. One of the most significant rule changes regarding healthcare emergency management...
Read MoreEmergency & Life Safety: 5 Gaps Fixed with Mobile Facilities Dashboards
As technology advances, outdated approaches to emergency information management expose facility-related risks that have serious implications for business risk management. In the event of an emergency, the facility manager becomes the most important person in the building. The extent of business losses increases if the facility manager is unable to access and distribute information to building occupants and first responders....
Read MoreARC® Launches Mobile Facilities Dashboards for Healthcare Compliance, and Emergency and Life Safety
New mobile dashboards support critical information management needs for healthcare, education and government facilities teams September 12, 2017 | Walnut Creek, CA: Today ARC®, the leader in information management for the building lifecycle, introduced cloud-based mobile dashboards to help facilities teams manage health care compliance, and emergency and life safety information. The dashboards help emergency response and management teams respond faster,...
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Using Technology to Increase Facility Efficiency
Facilities Managers have to know everything about their buildings, from when and how it was built, to the inspections it passed, problems that were fixed, upgrades that were made, and tenant improvements that have taken place over the lifespan of the structure. Thousands of documents have to be maintained, updated, and kept easily accessible. They are the life blood for...
Read MoreNew App: The Smartest Way to Manage Facilities
Is your team using an app to manage your facilities yet? We all love and use apps daily – from getting driving directions, to checking the news or weather, to watching a movie, etc. Why not use an app to manage facilities? Instant access to information means working smarter and faster. That’s why we are so excited to announce the...
Read MoreARC Facilities App Wins 2019 Campus Safety BEST Award
We are delighted to announce that Campus Safety Magazine is recognizing the ARC Facilities App with a 2019 Campus Safety BEST Award for its ARC Emergency module in the category of Incident Management and Response for Incident and Records Management Software. ARC Emergency is one of five modules in the app, and is designed to help facilities and emergency management...
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Active Shooter Awareness Training | Emergency Preparedness and Facilities Management
Unfortunately, the risk of an active shooter event taking place at your facility has increased in recent years. That means, as with any other risk, facilities teams (and the rest of the organization) must take action to mitigate the risk of an active shooter event. To that end, Michael Urueta, a FEMA and OSHA Certified Trainer at EHS Planning and...
Read MoreFacility Management | Developing an Infrastructure Resiliency Model
After Hurricane Sandy, the City of New York went to work to make the city’s infrastructure and facilities more resilient. A consequence of their efforts was NYC’s new resiliency code, which “establishes guidance on incorporating projected impacts from climate change into the planning, engineering, construction, and renovation of City facilities.” One of the authors of that code, John D’Angelo, who currently...
Read MoreFactors to Consider while Buying Facilities Technology
Have you ever thought whether your facility management team is buying the right kind of technology? In order to make a successful tech purchase, you need to first identify what you need not do while deciding on or making the purchase. Making the correct choice in selecting the right technology can often be a daunting task. In this article, we...
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Dealing with Emergency Patient Surge in Healthcare Facilities
A patient surge in any healthcare facility is quite common. Since this happens usually when an emergency occurs, the hospital authorities are mostly unaware of such an event. During these events, the facility managers of even the most efficiently managed hospitals stay on their toes while ensuring safety and security. How you manage and respond to the situation depends on...
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