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  Indoor air quality is a hot topic these days, with most of the conversation centered around air purification and pollutants, but what about floors and carpets? Rather than cleaning for appearance, science is emerging about prioritizing the largest horizontal surface of the building to clean for health. ISSA Media Director Jeff Cross recently interviewed…

  Five interconnected elements of operational resilience underpin recently released technical guidance for assessing and responding to building-level risk. The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Canada will outline the basic concepts through upcoming cross-Canada workshops, underscoring that operations teams carry key responsibility to safeguard building occupants, facilitate business continuity and protect asset value….

Since the Industrial Revolution, employers and workers have used new resources to perform more work with less physical effort. These resources include energy sources, mechanical equipment, and machine tools. This equipment has provided more efficient methods of production but also exposed employees to hazardous motions and hazardous energy. OSHA, Washington (osha.gov), published machine-guarding standards several…

  About thirty years ago a group of reliability and maintenance practitioners from various companies were discussing what a professional organization for maintenance and reliability should entail. That was the beginning of the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP, smrp.org). I remember many of these discussions being about how to raise the level of…

Sam Rylands, Head of Marketing at Durable UK, explains why FMs need to combine the advantages of working at home and in the office to enhance employee wellbeing One of the biggest issues currently faced by managers of facilities, is the fact that they are predominantly servicing a workforce that is working from home and…

There’s a new alliance in town: The Energy Storage Solutions Consortium. With founding members including Meta, REsurety, Broad Reach Power, the consortium has a vision: provide the tools needed to assess and maximize emission reductions from energy storage. Energy storage has a starring role in our new, decarbonized future. It’s often called the “linchpin technology”…