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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
