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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Falls from heights and on the same level (a working surface) are among the leading causes of serious work-related injuries and deaths. OSHA has issued a final rule on Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Fall Protection Systems to better protect workers in general industry from these hazards by updating and clarifying standards and adding training and inspection requirements.
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Hotel Business Review via JD Supra Business Advisor
President-elect Trump is unlikely to support continued federal labor and employment agency activism in wage and hour and other employment-related matters. What does this mean in the context of the hotel industry? Can hotel owners and franchisors expect immediate relief?
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, we forecast a clear pro-business shift in labor and employment policy under Donald Trump. Republicans will assume control of not only the presidency, but both houses of Congress in 2017.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
Whether or not we realize it, facility mangers are in the business of solving problems and reducing costs that are related to processes with a standard. But if you were told there was a methodology that would help you create processes and systems to help you meet your standards, would you use it?
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New York Daily News
Bed bugs would have a harder time feasting on guests at city hotels under a new bill set to be introduced in the City Council.
The legislation, which will be introduced Nov. 29, would require hotels to have exterminators inspect all their rooms for the blood sucking creatures every six months.
Councilman Rafael Espinal (D-Brooklyn) said he decided the rule was necessary after reading in the Daily News that bed bug sightings in New York hotels jumped more than 44 percent between 2014 and 2015, with bugs spotted at some of the city's swankiest properties.
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By Doug Haymore
 You've done all the right things — you turn down the thermostat after hours, you've replaced your light bulbs with LEDs, and you even ensure your computers hibernate quickly when not in use — but you're running out of ways to cut down on your energy usage. While all of those internal ideas are a step in the right direction, it can be helpful to look outside for even more ideas. Taking the extra step with your outdoor area can have positive impacts on your energy consumption.
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Facility Executive
Colder weather is fast approaching, and with it comes ice and snow. Each year slips on ice account for over 30 percent of all slip work-injury claims. These lawsuits can be very costly, aside from the fact you are also dealing with an injured employee. Explaining it broadly, injured parties win work-injury claims when they prove their employer did not fulfill his or her duty in supplying a safe workplace environment. As a result, the best way to avoid liability is to keep your employees safe. Here is a list of tips put together by Gaia Enterprises to help keep your employees safe and reduce liability this winter.
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AutomatedBuildings.com
People counting technologies are relatively established in the era of smart locations and buildings. While people counting seems rather self-explanatory, these technologies includes floor sensors, video counters, beam counters, mobile and Wi-Fi tracking, as well as thermal tracking technologies, and are used by a number of different industries to determine how people visit and interact within physical spaces.
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Infection Control Today
For the first time in 60 years, a tropical bed bug has been confirmed in Florida, and University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers urge the public to send them samples of suspected bed bugs for identification.
For decades, pest control professionals kept common bed bugs mostly at bay with various chemical treatments. Then scientists saw a resurgence of those bugs in the late 1990s and 2000s. The same thing may be happening with the tropical bed bug.
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FacilityManagement.com
Mobile technology is all around us. It has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, and is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. This has made it important for businesses to drive mobile development through mobile applications. Managers should harness the power of mobile technology.
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FMLink
Facilities managers currently involved in or part of planning a renovation or new build project should note that construction costs rose in November for the first time since December 2014, according to a report from global market analysis firm IHS Markit and the Procurement Executives Group (PEG). The headline current IHS PEG Engineering and Construction Cost Index registered 50.7 in November, up from 48.7 in October.
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Hotel Management
The first step for a hotel to become more energy efficient is to identify and understand the property's energy-consuming systems. With energy typically being the second highest operating expense in a hotel, there are a lot of opportunities. One of the easiest ways to be more energy efficient is to not use energy when it's not needed.
"The largest consumer of energy in the guestroom is the [heating, ventilation and air conditioning] equipment," said Tom Woodruff, GM of Inncom, a division of Honeywell.
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