Help When It's Needed
Among the areas of highest risk for violence in hospitals are mental health units, emergency departments, waiting areas and geriatric units, according...
A Vertical Approach
Staybridge Suites is an all-suite hotel brand serving extended-stay guests looking for a residential-style hotel for business, relocation or leisure....
Choosing Fire Extinguishers for Health Care Facilities
By Craig Voelkert
Many fire hazards exist within health care facilities. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to prevent as well as suppress fires, if and when they occur...
Tech Watch
The Virginia Tech campus shooting further emphasized the need for colleges, universities and schools to implement emergency procedures to ensure effective...
Organized Readiness
Ensuring that communication moves efficiently requires a state-of-the-art operations hub to coordinate response efforts and to facilitate field operatives...
Emergency Management on Campus
By Carol Carey
Clear leadership in an emergency situation can make a difference in life or death. This conviction has driven California State University at Fullerton...
New Products
An Electromagnetic Fortress SPOTLIGHT: EM-SEC Coating System Businesses and government facilities now have another option for protection against wireless...
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Boston Sheriff Deploys New High-Tech Fire Extinguishers
Boston's Suffolk County Sheriff's Department has installed more than 175 electronically monitored fire extinguishers in two of the Department's correctional...
Tech Watch
Making security systems easier to use was a big theme at this year's ASIS show (Sept. 25-27 in San Diego), and several suppliers introduced products whose...
A Burning Issue
By Pat Jaugstetter
Fire-rated cabinets, now produced by the three manufacturers of extinguisher cabinets, have been met with enthusiastic acceptance in the architectural...
A Gradual Retrofit
The City of Allentown, PA. about 55 miles north of Philadelphia is the third largest city in the state. That's a far cry from the rural village that the...
Quick Suppression
By Pat Jaugstetter
Using Thermal Imaging Cameras in addition to water from standpipes, firefighters extinguished a fire in a power-generating turbine that was protected...
GE Solution Protects Olympic Venues
Fire and life safety, explosives trace detection, intrusion and video equipment and systems from GE's security business were deployed throughout the Torino...
Fire Protection System Keeps Inmates Secure
At the new Yakima Valley Justice Center in Yakima, Wash., security is everywhere. An imposing mixture of steel, concrete, wire mesh and re-bar, the new...
Surgery, Fire Free
By Steve Ennis
For nearly the first two years of his life, Nathan Laporte could not be held by his mother, his family's lawyer told a jury in August during a hearing...
Museum Upgrades Vintage Fire System
The headquarters of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland's oldest existing cultural institution, consists of the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum,...
False Alarms Going Downhill in Vail
Facing a barrage of false fire alarms, The Vail Cascade Resort and Spa in Vail, Colo., has performed a major upgrade of the resort's fire alarm system....
BALANCED FIRE PROTECTION
BY PAT JAUGSTETTER
A balanced fire protection plan is effective only if its components are regularly inspected and maintained. Building owners should not believe that just...
Fire Systems May Be A Stumbling Block For Building Integration
As organizations recognize the benefits of combining physical and digital security, integration of building security systems with other security systems...
PROTECTION PROJECT
The School District of Greenville County in South Carolina is the largest public school system in the state and the 63rd largest in the country. The consolidated,...
Clinton Library To Put Fire Protection On The Books
When the nation's newest and most technologically sophisticated presidential center and library opens in November, it will include an integrated, state-of-the-art...
Fire Safety Rises High At Apartments
The nearly 1,600 residents of the Mediterranean Towers West (MedWest) luxury co-op apartment building in Fort Lee, N.J., had become accustomed to the...
Balancing Security and Fire Safety: It Starts in Stairwells
By Claude Hollyfield, DAHC
Close your eyes and locate the nearest fire exit in your building. Now imagine the same route engulfed with blinding smoke and fire could you still find...
Schooled in Art, Design and Fire Safety
The Savannah (Ga.) College of Art and Design occupies more than one million square feet, spans nearly 60 buildings, and houses more than 6,000 students...
