Losing weight and quitting bad habits are common New Year’s resolutions: common to make, common to break. Even if you have already blown the resolutions you made, allow us to suggest another: organization.
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Filtered Relevance
It’s difficult to be in a public place these days without overhearing someone talking on their cell phone. Of course, very little of what we overhear – intentionally or not – has any relevance to us. So when we listen, our brains act like a natural filter, sifting the irrelevant information from the important details.
Calculating Acceptable Risk
Those of us in the business of protecting lives and property aren’t big risk takers. Property owners, engineers and contractors know they can get burned – literally – if they approve fire and life safety systems that take unwarranted risks.
When Only the Best Will Do
When museums and other cultural institutions assess security risks, theft and physical damage by visitors are often top of mind. But stolen goods may be recovered, and mishandled items may be repaired. Property loss due to fire or smoke is simply more devastating. Unlike a typical commercial facility where data – the most important asset of many companies – can be backed up and restored offsite, that’s not possible with paintings, rare photographs and precious collections.
The Great Indoors: A Big Challenge
Commercial buildings and “big box” stores keep getting bigger. Indoor malls are adding entertainment venues and restaurants. Even office structures are becoming more elaborate.
Access Denied: Something Borrowed
Many of us can relate to the logic that there’s no sense reinventing the wheel: Why start fire and life safety design from scratch when there are already so many tried-and-true procedures and examples from which to borrow?
Extreme Detection: Fire Edition
If you develop systems for extreme environments, such as a refrigeration plant or a chemical processing facility, this issue is for you.
If you don’t, this issue is still for you.
A Call to Pre-Action
Taking action is good; taking pre-action is absolutely essential.
Great Products, Many Choices
One type of fire and life safety system does not fit all, and System Sensor is proud to have a wide range of high-quality options.
A New Channel of Communication
All too often, companies use their Web sites to share information with customers and others in the industry and then think they have done their part in “communicating” with the market. There’s nothing wrong with using the Internet as a resource for providing specification sheets, technical information, and company and product basics. But Web sites typically keep customers at arm’s length with a one-sided type of communication and should be part of a multi-faceted plan to connect with the market.