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Blazemark Presents At Fire Safety Asia Conference

by Jon Kern | 15 November 2017 | Article, Global, Guest Speaker

Our staff traveled to Asia for a couple weeks to consult on new and existing client needs. We also presented at several conferences in Singapore. Greg Jakubowski presented at the Fire Safety Asia Conference in Singapore as well as conducted a full day workshop on...

Pre-incident Planning In The Modern IT World Should Be Off Of The Corporate Network

by Jon Kern | 15 November 2017 | Article

In high risk, high reward research environments facilities staff, environmental health and safety, and risk managers understand the need for pre-incident plans at several levels. First, nothing can go wrong! Unlike many other business functions, the R&D and...

Four Problem-Solution Areas For Financing Your Own Risk

by Jon Kern | 14 November 2017 | Article, Guest Speaker

What is “financing risk?” Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) take on a lot of risk in search of great reward. While you might be happy to take that risk, that risk often bites you in the rear and someone has to cough up money to pay for it. If this sounds a lot...

CMS Deadline For Emergency Preparedness Is This Week

by Jon Kern | 13 November 2017 | Article

The emergency preparedness deadline is quickly looming over 17 different health care provider types, including hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAH), ambulatory surgical centers, and long-term care facilities. On Sept. 16, 2016, the Centers for Medicare &...

Pre-Incident Planning Could Have Saved Millions In Aircraft Destroyed By High Expansion Foam

by Jon Kern | 7 November 2017 | Article

I got the call early one Labor Day morning, can you come into work early there has been a foam release at one of the hangars and we need some extra manpower. I’m an ARFF Captain at small regional airport in New Jersey. The hangar is owned by a Fortune 500 company that...

Keys To Protecting Faith Based Organizations From Emergencies

by Jon Kern | 31 October 2017 | Article

Gone are the days where institutions only had to worry about medical or weather emergencies. Today we see blatant hostility toward the religious rights of people of faith. This open season against religious facilities includes religious houses of worship, childcare...