Author: FM College Admin

Environmental services managers in hospitals and other healthcare facilities increasingly recognize that infection prevention is not limited to hands, medical devices and patient rooms. It also includes the infrastructure that supports patient care. Drains sit at the intersection of infection prevention, environmental services (EVS), and facilities — largely invisible, hard to sample and often outside…

Our latest State of the Sustainability Profession report told a tale of two companies: those staying the course and those in retreat. The good news? More are staying the course: 46 percent of companies have increased budgets and headcount in sustainability over the last two years, 25 percent have cut back and the rest are…

Along State Highway 16 on San Antonio’s South Side, a 50-ft-high steel structure is rising from a grid of 414 concrete piers driven 40 ft into expansive clay soils. Cranes track across the building’s interior. A low hum carries across the site—pumps are running. British heavy equipment manufacturer JCB bought this 400-acre stretch of farmland…

Most UK offices were not designed with movement in mind. They were designed to fit as many people as possible into a given space, keep overheads manageable and ensure everyone had somewhere to plug in a laptop. According to the British Medical Bulletin, UK office workers spend up to three quarters of their day sitting….

Your organization operates in a world where threats come from multiple angles and the damage from any kind of physical or cyber breach can be significant and long-lasting. Every facility visit, every meeting, and every interaction, physical or virtual, carries its own unique security and compliance implications and risk. Because of that, your organization cannot…

The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University has published new research in partnership with the Security Industry Association (SIA) that examines school safety in the United States and how schools can prevent, mitigate, and reduce the impact of active shooter events. The study, titled “The Role of Locked Doors and Access Control in School-Based…