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Hotel Management
Recently, the Department of Labor ended its public comment period regarding a proposed rule that would extend overtime protections to nearly 5 million white-collar workers within its first year of implementation. These updated regulations close an eligibility exemption that the Department of Labor claims was originally meant for "highly-compensated executive, administrative, and professional employees," and now applies to workers earning as little as $23,660 a year to as much as $50,440.
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Occupational Health & Safety
Annually, lightning strikes cause damage to facilities, disruption of work, injuries and deaths in some cases. Although the U.S. has made progress in protecting structures, there is still room to improve in properly protecting people. Keep in mind that lightning protection for facilities protects the structure and the electrical systems in the facility, it does not protect people or operations outside of the structure.
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Facility Dude
The importance of building resilience A facility manager's job centers on increasing operational efficiency of the building while minimizing the costs needed to get the desired performance. This is a delicate process that requires balance between building maintenance, budgeting, benchmarking and reporting.
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Facility Executive
The Ashkin Group, an advocate for green and sustainable cleaning for the professional cleaning industry, is advising building owners and managers, janitorial and sanitation supply distributors, and facility service providers that as of January 2015, LEED has redefined the requirements for LEED-compliant de-icers.
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Facility Dude
Don't get left in the dark during a power outage When you were a kid, chances are you found power outages exciting. As an adult, however — and specifically a facility manager — these occurrences have gone from fun and entertaining to troublesome and irritating.
One difficult thing about responding to power outages is the fact that they can be brought on by any number of factors, many of them out of your control. Weather, mistakes at the power company or even mix-ups with utility bills can all result in the lights going out when you don't expect them to.
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CleanLink
You should never store a chemical in any container than the one it came in. One exception to that rule is that if you use "Buddy Jugs" which is a way of having a five gallon container with RTU (ready to use) chemicals they should have a secondary (crack and peel) label provided by the manufacturer. Use extreme caution in putting a different chemical into a spray bottle that contained some other product. The worst case is when a worker innocently puts glass cleaner in a bottle that had an oil based product thereby guaranteeing the contamination of the glass cleaner.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
A central goal of facility management is to provide safe and reliable physical plant systems to support, protect and enable the organization's mission and vision. Facility management processes thousands of service requests annually and is responsible for significant resources. However, facility management suffers from a dearth of objectively researched and publicly available information concerning the impact of facilities on individual organizations. This article applies research based on the philosophy of "new science" to the practice of facility management.
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BUILDINGS
Specifying carpet with recycled content is beneficial to the environment, corporate responsiblity and green certification programs. It's the right thing to do, but knowing how to make the best choice is daunting. To ensure your choice is truly sustainable, take the time to find out what's in your carpet selection, how it was manufactured, and where it will end up when you're finished with it.
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Energy Manager Today
Energy and building management costs are no longer just a line item paid each month. Now facility professionals can perform deeper analysis — using cloud-based software — to automatically check data for accuracy, automatically identify problems and generally make data-driven decisions.
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FacilitiesNet
Complying with regulations and codes ranks among the highest priorities for maintenance and engineering managers in institutional and commercial facilities. In this roundtable, consultants discuss compliance challenges and the trends and developments they foresee.
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