While protecting our loved ones in our homes is already a challenge, there’s a far greater threat these days -- protecting our loved ones while they’re in public buildings, including schools, houses of worship, malls, banks, and municipal buildings.
Facility teams, already tasked with keeping equipment running safely and efficiently, and other critical tasks now must make security a top priority, considering recent mass shootings in Uvalde, TX; Buffalo, NY; and Laguna Woods, CA.
ARC Facilities works with schools, universities, municipalities, sports stadiums, and healthcare facilities across the country who’ve learned to take control of their own building information and make it quickly and easily accessible for local emergency contacts via handheld devices.
Visit us for more:- https://www.arcfacilities.com/blog/facility-awareness-safety-security-best-practices
While a lot of knowledge can be cross trained to staffs, there are many tasks and responsibilities that veteran facilities professionals just instinctively know to do – things like annual elevator inspections, building fire inspections, life safety / fire system and extinguisher inspections and pressure vessel (boiler) inspections.
But there’s a thing about "Brain Drain" for the legacy employee transfer to the younger team members and that thing has to do with time. When you’re staring at an air handling unit from a ladder, time is of the essence, especially when repairs are necessary. I’ve heard of several retired facilities guys who negotiated a "consulting" agreement with their former employers just so they would agree to answer their phone.
One Good Turn Deserves Another: Find Shut-offs FastARC Facilities
As if you don’t already have enough on your plate, knowing the locations of your facility’s gas, water main, water isolation valves and med gas valve shut-offs is more difficult than it sounds.
Renovations, the number of years you’ve been on the job and the vastness of some campuses all contribute to the difficulty of finding these devices – coupled with the unavailability of location documentation.
In facility emergencies, often times, the first thing that needs to be addressed are shut-offs. Knowing their locations and how to operate these devices is critically important.
Visit us at:- https://www.arcfacilities.com/blog/one-good-turn-deserves-another-find-shutoffs-fast
Hands on Information for Facilities Teams - Keys to School Emergency Prepared...ARC Facilities
Schools and school districts are complex, complicated, and conspicuous with their presence in local communities.
Everyone knows their local elementary school, middle school, high school – even if your kids are grown. That visibility makes schools vulnerable to the full gamut of incidents from active shootings to natural disasters to burst water pipes and power outages.
Experienced school safety professionals are likely cool-headed, calm, and communicative, but what about teachers and staff? How do they approach school emergency preparedness? Making the transition from facilitating a class discussion to leading a roomful of 12-year-olds out of the building during a disaster requires situational awareness, confidence, and training.
While some have posed the idea of bringing in past workers in consulting roles to achieve a work-life balance for those who aren’t 100% ready for retirement, having a team approach to problem-solving is great for all parties involved in facility management, including technicians, emergency managers, and facility decision-makers.
Not every retired facility team member wants to be called weekly or while out playing golf or at home with their families with questions about shutoff locations or issues with an old air handling unit that should have been decommissioned years ago!
Winter is also an important time to better understand the challenges of inclement weather and emergency response for police, fire departments and 1st responders for several reason. ARC Facility brings to you a few Facility Maintenance service Tips for managing buildings in winters.
In the facility management field, emergencies test our abilities to stay calm, think about critical building data, test our knowledge of the building, including renovations and retrofits, and have a deep knowledge of facility equipment.
During emergencies, our relationships with first responders are elevated while the care, safety, and security of building residents, whether they’re students, staff, medical professionals, office workers, visitors, vendors, or contractors are put to the test.
Unleash the Power of Mobile to Provide Instant Access to Building IntelligenceARC Facilities
Few groups need instant access to building information more urgently than the facility, maintenance, and building security professionals responsible for delivering outstanding occupant experiences and keeping our facilities up and running safely.
For facility teams who travel miles between facilities and require documentation to be easily available for both emergencies and daily equipment maintenance, getting their hands on info about shut-off, as-builts, and renovations quickly and easily is a huge productivity boost.
When discussions about facilities safety and security arise, the good news is that both facilities and security teams can and should work closely together. Communications via mobile devices are recommended for both facility and security officials.
“On weekends, we have one custodian working and usually one district police officer, and that’s to cover three sites,” said Byron Woods, Dean of Facilities at College of the Sequoias. “If I’m out of town and a police officer responds to a fire alarm on one of the campuses and he doesn’t know where the panel is or how to turn it off, I can pull up the floor plan on my phone, click on my fire alarm panels and it’ll show me exactly where it’s at.”
While a lot of knowledge can be cross trained to staffs, there are many tasks and responsibilities that veteran facilities professionals just instinctively know to do – things like annual elevator inspections, building fire inspections, life safety / fire system and extinguisher inspections and pressure vessel (boiler) inspections.
But there’s a thing about "Brain Drain" for the legacy employee transfer to the younger team members and that thing has to do with time. When you’re staring at an air handling unit from a ladder, time is of the essence, especially when repairs are necessary. I’ve heard of several retired facilities guys who negotiated a "consulting" agreement with their former employers just so they would agree to answer their phone.
One Good Turn Deserves Another: Find Shut-offs FastARC Facilities
As if you don’t already have enough on your plate, knowing the locations of your facility’s gas, water main, water isolation valves and med gas valve shut-offs is more difficult than it sounds.
Renovations, the number of years you’ve been on the job and the vastness of some campuses all contribute to the difficulty of finding these devices – coupled with the unavailability of location documentation.
In facility emergencies, often times, the first thing that needs to be addressed are shut-offs. Knowing their locations and how to operate these devices is critically important.
Visit us at:- https://www.arcfacilities.com/blog/one-good-turn-deserves-another-find-shutoffs-fast
Hands on Information for Facilities Teams - Keys to School Emergency Prepared...ARC Facilities
Schools and school districts are complex, complicated, and conspicuous with their presence in local communities.
Everyone knows their local elementary school, middle school, high school – even if your kids are grown. That visibility makes schools vulnerable to the full gamut of incidents from active shootings to natural disasters to burst water pipes and power outages.
Experienced school safety professionals are likely cool-headed, calm, and communicative, but what about teachers and staff? How do they approach school emergency preparedness? Making the transition from facilitating a class discussion to leading a roomful of 12-year-olds out of the building during a disaster requires situational awareness, confidence, and training.
While some have posed the idea of bringing in past workers in consulting roles to achieve a work-life balance for those who aren’t 100% ready for retirement, having a team approach to problem-solving is great for all parties involved in facility management, including technicians, emergency managers, and facility decision-makers.
Not every retired facility team member wants to be called weekly or while out playing golf or at home with their families with questions about shutoff locations or issues with an old air handling unit that should have been decommissioned years ago!
Winter is also an important time to better understand the challenges of inclement weather and emergency response for police, fire departments and 1st responders for several reason. ARC Facility brings to you a few Facility Maintenance service Tips for managing buildings in winters.
In the facility management field, emergencies test our abilities to stay calm, think about critical building data, test our knowledge of the building, including renovations and retrofits, and have a deep knowledge of facility equipment.
During emergencies, our relationships with first responders are elevated while the care, safety, and security of building residents, whether they’re students, staff, medical professionals, office workers, visitors, vendors, or contractors are put to the test.
Unleash the Power of Mobile to Provide Instant Access to Building IntelligenceARC Facilities
Few groups need instant access to building information more urgently than the facility, maintenance, and building security professionals responsible for delivering outstanding occupant experiences and keeping our facilities up and running safely.
For facility teams who travel miles between facilities and require documentation to be easily available for both emergencies and daily equipment maintenance, getting their hands on info about shut-off, as-builts, and renovations quickly and easily is a huge productivity boost.
When discussions about facilities safety and security arise, the good news is that both facilities and security teams can and should work closely together. Communications via mobile devices are recommended for both facility and security officials.
“On weekends, we have one custodian working and usually one district police officer, and that’s to cover three sites,” said Byron Woods, Dean of Facilities at College of the Sequoias. “If I’m out of town and a police officer responds to a fire alarm on one of the campuses and he doesn’t know where the panel is or how to turn it off, I can pull up the floor plan on my phone, click on my fire alarm panels and it’ll show me exactly where it’s at.”
It’s Back-To-School Time. Are Your Educational Facilities Ready?ARC Facilities
Speaking with a variety of Facility Management Professionals in the education industry yielded a detailed and varied checklist of to-do’s associated with bringing schools back to life for students.
The University of Georgia’s Kim Thomas provided four great guides to getting started:
1. Engage your stakeholders and share your maintenance checklist to let them know what you are doing with their safety in mind
2. Offer to host a community or stakeholder building walkthrough of targeted areas and answer any questions they may have
3. Post your facility management team's scope of routine work to level maintenance and safety expectations at the onset of the new school year
4. Ensure all HVAC, cleaning, and other facility checks are performed in a timely manner and target problems early so they don't become more severe issues later
Back-to-school transitions are exciting for students, parents, and staff. For facilities management service teams who desire memorable and positive experiences for all, the work (and the rewards) demands responsiveness, creativity, and teamwork. Happy students equal a comfortable campus for all!
ARC Facilities Rolls Out Exciting New Features for 2022ARC Facilities
The facility management world is filled with facts and figures. We’re always talking in terms of square feet, numbers of buildings, locations, acreage, and team members. Campuses are expanding, renovating, and retrofitting. Meanwhile, facilities teams are on-site every day, constantly moving, consistently busy, keeping buildings up and running, and providing a safe environment for people.
It’s a fast-paced world that never slows down, so time management is a critical skill. There are only so many hours in a day, factor in lunch, and a couple of breaks and those eight hours become a blur. If there’s an hour or two that’s wasted searching for information, then team productivity suffers, and important tasks may be neglected.
Visit us for more:- https://www.arcfacilities.com/blog/arc-facilities-rolls-out-exciting-new-features
Facility management software Gaps and fixes..pdfARC Facilities
To amplify the workings of a facility and optimize building productivity on the go, it is best to opt for facility management software that comes with mobile access. Therefore, to enhance building operations, facility managers should go mobile and streamline their facility goals without having to bleed their pockets out.
Transform how facilities Information is accessed in the Build Space.pdfARC Facilities
Critical building information such as blueprints, plans or operations and maintenance manuals are among the documents facilities professionals refer to throughout the day. No matter the reason, in the end, access to these documents directly relate to the safety and well-being of the building.
occupants.
Mobile Insights for Building Intelligence -IDC-Analyst Brief.pdfARC Facilities
Mobile solutions are driving efficiency across every business segment, especially the ones with workers who operate in the field. IDC research shows that 33% of C-level executives think mobile-first access to corporate resources is one of the work practices from the past two years that is most likely to endure within their organizations
Solutions may vary from a simple work order management system to a complex, integrated system such as an IWMS or an IBMS system. These are significant investments and it is important that executives in charge of facilities management understand the use and impact of these solutions on their operations.
Focus on Education, Access Campus info in a whole new way..pdfARC Facilities
ARC Facilities is a game-changer for facilities professionals. Unlike legacy systems, our solution is optimized for mobility, speed and simplicity. We use AI and machine learning to extract intelligence from building, equipment, emergency and compliance documents so anyone can find what they need.
ARC facilities for construction projects.pdfARC Facilities
ARC Facilities has solved this problem with a Construction Projects module that ensures your documents are organized, accurate, and available instantly at the end of each project.
Focus on Government, Access Facilities in an Entirely New Way.pdfARC Facilities
ARC Facilities is a game-changer for facilities professionals. Unlike legacy systems, our solution is optimized for mobility, speed and simplicity. We use AI and machine learning to extract intelligence from building, equipment, emergency and compliance documents so anyone can find what they need. It’s lightning-fast and as easy-to-use as any of your favorite apps.
How to Keep Critical Building Information from Walking Out the DoorARC Facilities
Take action now to ensure both veteran and new facilities managers have building information at their fingertips in a format that’s accessible to anyone.
In an emergency, the person first responders want to see is the emergency manager -- whether the facility is a school, office building, hospital or factory. First responders need crucial building information to do their job. Equipped with a mobile App rather than a flip chart—facility managers can provide information instantly, helping to save lives and protect property.
It’s Back-To-School Time. Are Your Educational Facilities Ready?ARC Facilities
Speaking with a variety of Facility Management Professionals in the education industry yielded a detailed and varied checklist of to-do’s associated with bringing schools back to life for students.
The University of Georgia’s Kim Thomas provided four great guides to getting started:
1. Engage your stakeholders and share your maintenance checklist to let them know what you are doing with their safety in mind
2. Offer to host a community or stakeholder building walkthrough of targeted areas and answer any questions they may have
3. Post your facility management team's scope of routine work to level maintenance and safety expectations at the onset of the new school year
4. Ensure all HVAC, cleaning, and other facility checks are performed in a timely manner and target problems early so they don't become more severe issues later
Back-to-school transitions are exciting for students, parents, and staff. For facilities management service teams who desire memorable and positive experiences for all, the work (and the rewards) demands responsiveness, creativity, and teamwork. Happy students equal a comfortable campus for all!
ARC Facilities Rolls Out Exciting New Features for 2022ARC Facilities
The facility management world is filled with facts and figures. We’re always talking in terms of square feet, numbers of buildings, locations, acreage, and team members. Campuses are expanding, renovating, and retrofitting. Meanwhile, facilities teams are on-site every day, constantly moving, consistently busy, keeping buildings up and running, and providing a safe environment for people.
It’s a fast-paced world that never slows down, so time management is a critical skill. There are only so many hours in a day, factor in lunch, and a couple of breaks and those eight hours become a blur. If there’s an hour or two that’s wasted searching for information, then team productivity suffers, and important tasks may be neglected.
Visit us for more:- https://www.arcfacilities.com/blog/arc-facilities-rolls-out-exciting-new-features
Facility management software Gaps and fixes..pdfARC Facilities
To amplify the workings of a facility and optimize building productivity on the go, it is best to opt for facility management software that comes with mobile access. Therefore, to enhance building operations, facility managers should go mobile and streamline their facility goals without having to bleed their pockets out.
Transform how facilities Information is accessed in the Build Space.pdfARC Facilities
Critical building information such as blueprints, plans or operations and maintenance manuals are among the documents facilities professionals refer to throughout the day. No matter the reason, in the end, access to these documents directly relate to the safety and well-being of the building.
occupants.
Mobile Insights for Building Intelligence -IDC-Analyst Brief.pdfARC Facilities
Mobile solutions are driving efficiency across every business segment, especially the ones with workers who operate in the field. IDC research shows that 33% of C-level executives think mobile-first access to corporate resources is one of the work practices from the past two years that is most likely to endure within their organizations
Solutions may vary from a simple work order management system to a complex, integrated system such as an IWMS or an IBMS system. These are significant investments and it is important that executives in charge of facilities management understand the use and impact of these solutions on their operations.
Focus on Education, Access Campus info in a whole new way..pdfARC Facilities
ARC Facilities is a game-changer for facilities professionals. Unlike legacy systems, our solution is optimized for mobility, speed and simplicity. We use AI and machine learning to extract intelligence from building, equipment, emergency and compliance documents so anyone can find what they need.
ARC facilities for construction projects.pdfARC Facilities
ARC Facilities has solved this problem with a Construction Projects module that ensures your documents are organized, accurate, and available instantly at the end of each project.
Focus on Government, Access Facilities in an Entirely New Way.pdfARC Facilities
ARC Facilities is a game-changer for facilities professionals. Unlike legacy systems, our solution is optimized for mobility, speed and simplicity. We use AI and machine learning to extract intelligence from building, equipment, emergency and compliance documents so anyone can find what they need. It’s lightning-fast and as easy-to-use as any of your favorite apps.
How to Keep Critical Building Information from Walking Out the DoorARC Facilities
Take action now to ensure both veteran and new facilities managers have building information at their fingertips in a format that’s accessible to anyone.
In an emergency, the person first responders want to see is the emergency manager -- whether the facility is a school, office building, hospital or factory. First responders need crucial building information to do their job. Equipped with a mobile App rather than a flip chart—facility managers can provide information instantly, helping to save lives and protect property.
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Facility Awareness, Safety, Security Best Practices
While protecting our loved ones in our homes is already a challenge, there’s a far greater
threat these days -- protecting our loved ones while they’re in public buildings, including
schools, houses of worship, malls, banks, and municipal buildings.
Facility teams, already tasked with keeping equipment running safely and e몭ciently, and
other critical tasks now must make security a top priority, considering recent mass
shootings in Uvalde, TX; Bu몭alo, NY; and Laguna Woods, CA.
Risk experts from Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. are recommending
prevention and response measures and answering common questions about armed
intruder preparedness.
Physical spaces and systems
Control the access points to your building, ensuring all are locked or monitored.
Keep exits clear. Teachers and students may forget to lock windows. Replace broken
windows. Check roof and basement access, too.
Survey locks, doors, security cameras, lighting, alarms, and gates. Fix anything that
doesn’t work immediately.
Make sure your security measures – including equipment and personnel – are visible
and obvious.
Upgrade security cameras and access control devices, so facility and security teams
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2. Upgrade security cameras and access control devices, so facility and security teams
are alerted when a door is breached, or a person enters a building
Communications
Keep members and sta몭 informed on your security processes and procedures.
Use mobile devices to access evacuation routes, shut o몭s and share building plans
with 몭rst responders
Training
Implement a workplace violence prevention program and train all sta몭 and
volunteers.
Conduct armed intruder drills regularly, just like 몭re drills.
Include law enforcement o몭cers in your training and provide them a facility map.
Experts such as the ALICE Training Institute help organizations prevent, mitigate,
respond to, and recover from incidents such as an armed intruder attack. This includes
the basic tenets of response during an incident, captured in the ALICE acronym below:
Alert – Recognize the signs of danger and take all alerts seriously.
Lockdown – If evacuation is not a safe option, barricade entry points into your room.
Inform – Communicate information to others in the building as clearly as possible.
Counter – As a last resort when confronted with an armed intruder, create noise,
movement, and other distractions to reduce a shooter’s ability to aim accurately.
Evacuate – Leave the area through doors, windows, or other exits.
Emergency preparedness and responsiveness shouldn’t be the domain of just a few
individuals. We can all participate by using our 몭ve senses. Does the building look easy
to break into? Then, don’t keep it to yourself. Share concerns with management,
administration, IT.
ARC Facilities works with schools, universities, municipalities, sports stadiums, and
healthcare facilities across the country who’ve learned to take control of their own
building information and make it quickly and easily accessible for local emergency
contacts via handheld devices.
Here’s a quick video to help you respond to emergencies and deal with security threats.
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