Workplace Violence Part II
This is Part II of the uncomfortable topic on Workplace Violence Do your incident response plans (e.g. Site Security Plans, Emergency Action Plans, Emergency Response Plans, or other appropriate plans) cover emergency coordination activities? How is the response...
Workplace Violence Part 1
We’re going to begin a multipart discussion on an uncomfortable topic, “Workplace Violence” in today’s post. Workplace violence can run the gamut of a co-worker or student having a bad day and barricading themselves in an office, to the more horrific events...
Weather Related Emergencies
With the severe weather that has been around, I thought this would be a good time to talk about weather related emergencies, training using tabletop scenarios prior to an event and the use of Blazemark® pre plans for your facilities. Often times, we hear great...
Preplanning Pays the Best Dividends
One of the points that we keep hearing from clients is, “Preplanning pays the best dividends." It is the least expensive thing that can be done and pays off with the best return on investment. Most companies cannot insure for their R&D efforts, so actively...
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 With Specialty 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?...