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...
Mutual Aid and Pre-Incident Planning
So, how have you devised your mutual-aid plans? Are they informal or formal written agreements? Do you participate in a local, regional, or statewide plan? Do you know what is expected of your department, and do your mutual-aid partners know what is expected of them...
Protecting History’s Critical Infrastructure
Every year, on Christmas morning reenactors cross the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey at Washington's Crossing, recreating the historic event of George Washington crossing the Delaware to attack the Hessian troops stationed in Trenton New Jersey. This...
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...
Four Problem-Solution Areas For Financing Your Own Risk
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...
Pre-Incident Planning Could Have Saved Millions In Aircraft Destroyed By High Expansion Foam
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 Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Captain at a small regional airport in New Jersey. The...
Keys To Protecting Faith Based Organizations From Emergencies
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...
Trivia Question: BIM is?
Survey says? Nah, not Family Feud, that's a Jeopardy question. What is... Building Information Modeling? Correct, BIM is both a best practice process and 3D modeling that building designers use to create a project with integrated information to be shared with all...
OWNER’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR FIRE PROTECTION
It's 2pm in the afternoon and you get a call that your main corporate center is on fire with employees trapped on the upper floors. As a manager, panic starts to kick in as you mentally go through your preparation for this day asking, "Did I do everything I was...
Lessons Learned From Pool Chemical Warehouse Fire
August 4, 1989 just before midnight on a Friday night, a passing police officer notices smoke/fire coming from a large building on Philmont Ave in Lower Moreland, PA. The building was used for storing pool chemicals; and manufacturing/storing hot tubs. Previously, the...