Test & Tag
Test and Tag is a generic name given to the process of visually inspecting and electrically testing in-service electrical equipment for personal safety.
Facility Management
Painting maintenance
When was the last time your organisation painted the internal office space? When was the last time your organisation painted the outside of the building?
Annual Essential Safety Measures Report (AESMR)
An annual report is required for all commercial buildings, or places of public entertainment, in relation to all essential safety measures in that building. Applies to Victoria, Australia.
87% of your fire and smoke doors are probably non-compliant!
In 2008, a study by R Doleman found that 87% of 160 audited fire and smoke doors were non-compliant with over 935 failure items!
Maintenance schedules and regulations need to go the way of the dinosaur
Because of IoT, many maintenance schedules will soon go the way of the dinosaur. So what happens to the thousands of national and international standards and regulations that define maintenance schedules?
Social media and web 2.0 are helping the FM industry cut costs and increase compliance
Not only is there confusion around some of the IT buzzwords floating around, some people question if “IT fads” can deliver measurable business benefits for an industry. This article clears up some of the confusion and shows how COINs (Communities of Interest) are delivering clear and measurable benefits to the FM industry.
