Pre-incident Planning In The Modern IT World Should Be Off Of The Corporate Network
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...
Know Before You Go
In Their Own Words: Know Before You Go Here is an excellent video that talks about the reasons that preplanning is so critical. Listen as Jack Murphy (author of a Fire Engineering article "Concrete Tilt-Up Buildings: What You See on the Outside Is Not What You Get on...
Response to Facilities Equipped WithSpecialty Suppression Systems
Industrial Fire World Spring 2020 Greg Jakubowski, P.E., CSP, FSFPEINDUSTRIAL FACILITIES often present hazards unique to their field of endeavor. These risks require facilities be equipped with specialized fire suppression or detection systems...
Concerns of Spraying Flammable & Other Sanitizing Agents for COVID-19
Thoughts from Greg Jakubowski (P.E., CSP, FSFPE)I have heard, and have had my own concerns regarding the use of various pressurized sprayers for "disinfecting" emergency vehicles and other confined spaces using materials that are flammable. My take, and you are...
One More Reason To Have a Preplan…
Crews fighting NuStar blaze found locked gates, inactive fire suppression, officials say. Matthias Gafni Oct. 18, 2019 As firefighters descended on the volatile blaze engulfing two giant tanks at a fuel-storage facility in Crockett on Tuesday, they reached the front...
Hydraulic oil fire: Inside the realm of hot work, hydraulics, recovery at Tyson
Full article here. Five weeks after the smoke thinned from a hydraulic oil fire that knocked out operations at the Tyson cattle processing plant near Holcomb, the details of a mysterious flash that ignited the blaze remain hazy. The reconstruction process is underway,...
Guide to taking your fire preplan to the age of Star Trek
Train wreck, working commercial fire, plane crash, terrorist act, active shooter, hazmat or just a plain regional public event like a state fair or concert…how do you communicate pre-incident plans across emergency disciplines, government support agencies and NGO’s?...
Airport Emergency Plan (AEP) Development, Training, Sharing and Execution
Is your airport ready for an emergency? Airports vary widely in size and complexity; from small general aviation airports, to mid-size regional airports, to large-hub airports. However, they all have one thing in common, the potential for emergencies. An airport...
Pre-Incident Planning For Wildfires
We saw west coast units mount record breaking full-scale wildfire responses this past fall. We saw areas from suburban towns through those characterized as mountainous terrain that are heavily covered in brush and set near National Forests completely engulfed....
Benefits of Pre-incident Plan Drawings
Properly drafted and labeled drawings are a vital piece of a property pre-incident plan. Drawings can be equally beneficial during both the planning and fire scene operations at properties in the fire company’s response area. During the planning phase, fire officers...
Determine Nursing Home Compliance with Updated Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness Requirements
Four victims have been identified from a fire that destroyed a senior citizens home in West Chester, PA. All apparently died of smoke inhalation but the case remains under investigations as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Fire was through the roof when...