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How to measure occupancy for social distancing
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By Irisys

Controlling and restricting occupancy levels has been advised by the Government as a key step in facilitating and enabling social distancing in the workplace.

BUT, what does this mean in practice and how can you implement this in your workplace?

From manual to fully automated solutions, we discuss the pros and cons of different approaches so you are well informed and can pick a solution that best meets your needs and helps ensure the safety of your employees.

Read full article.

Attend the Facilities Management Forum in person or virtually
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The top five areas covered at the Facilities Management Forum are:

  •          Planned Building Maintenance
  •          Reactive Building Maintenance
  •          Asset Management
  •          Energy Management
  •          Fire Alarm Systems

This is a Hybrid event – Virtual attendance options are available.

Your complimentary guest pass includes; a personalised itinerary of pre-arranged, relaxed 1-2-1 meetings with innovative and budget-saving suppliers, access to a series of LIVE seminar sessions and network with like-minded peers who share your challenges.

Plus, you will receive overnight accommodation, including all meals and refreshments throughout.

5th & 6th October 2020, Hilton Deansgate, Manchester.

Click here to book your complimentary place.

Energy Management Summit

Forum’s networking & meet-the-buyer events go virtual
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Forum Events and Media Group, organiser of face-to-face meetings-based events like the Facilities Management Forum, Total Security Summit and the Energy Management Summit is launching a series of new Virtual Forums.

For over 20 years Forum has been bringing together procurement decision-makers with suppliers for pre-arranged meetings and networking at its Forums and Summits. These events have generated £millions of new business agreements between buyers and suppliers over the years.

With live events unable to take place for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Forum has expanded its cutting-edge proprietary software to create a new interface with live video meetings. This has allowed the company to create a virtual Forum platform, taking the events experience virtual. It will allow procurement executives to source new solutions, and give suppliers the opportunity to discover new clients – and ultimately, keep industries talking.

“During this unprecedented time, we have chosen to redirect our focus from live events to virtual so that we can still deliver expectations to our supporting exhibitors and create a platform to meet with high calibre decision makers face-to-face,” explained Forum Events and Media Group MD Sarah Beall.

“We cannot wait to welcome attendees back to our live events from September and have implemented a COVID-safe risk assessment at all our venues, ensuring the two-meter rule throughout, introducing temperature check and reduced numbers, but still creating the same professional and informal atmosphere of buyers and suppliers.”

“We are prepared and ready to kickstart our Forums from this month across four industries via our virtual platform. And we will continue to serve industries’ supply and demand by holding hybrid live and virtual events that are COVID-safe throughout the coming months.”

The first four virtual meeting events from Forum Events and Media Group will be:-

  • Total Security Summit – June 29th
  • Security IT Summit – June 30th
  • eTailing Summit – July 6th
  • Digital Marketing Solutions Summit – July 16th

Forum Events and Media Group is working alongside other UK events industry to promote the #GetBritainMeeting initiative aimed at kickstarting the events sector in a safe and sustainable way. The events industry employs some 700,000 people across the UK and contributes over £70 billion to the UK economy every year.

For more information, visit www.forumevents.co.uk.

Getting retailers ready for opening their doors
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Back in April Spectrum Industrial; manufacturer and supplier of safety signage and products, commissioned independent research amongst small independent retailers, who had kept their doors open during the lockdown. The aim was to truly understand how these retailers were implementing and managing social distancing and how they could help.

26% of these retailers said they found it difficult to implement social distancing and signage into the store, and 43% said they would have liked professional help or support.

Spectrum Industrial have spent years helping businesses with site safety signs by carrying out site audits, they took on board this feedback from the research and used their experience to develop a guide on how to implement a social distancing program.

Peter Clayton, Head of Sales, commented: “Following this feedback we thought it was important to help where we could.  We did not see implementing social distancing safety signs as any different to when we work with businesses to guide on site safety signs. However, the difference is that during this time, we can’t physically go along and advise, so we developed a simple how to guide”.

He continued: “We understand it’s not easy, we saw the challenges first-hand ourselves when applying this into our own business during the lockdown, and for those retailers where space is not a premium and a redesign is not an option, it proves very challenging.”

The research also showed that over 45% saw their implementation as being temporary and 50% implementing their own do it yourself signage.

Managing Director, Paul Kantecki, said: “This was no surprise as many at the time did not know how long this would go on for.  However, we are still seeing do it yourself social distancing measures still happening 3 months on, mainly when business / premises are opening their doors for the first time since lockdown. We do understand, as well as many finding it difficult, they are not sure if it is right, and they need to be flexible if they need to change it. Although this showed, and still shows many being proactive to put something in place. Being involved in safety signs we know the hazards these makeshift / do it yourself versions can have, such as slips and trips with unsuitable floor markings and tape through to home printed signs fading quickly and becoming unclear.”

Safety regulation state that all Health & Safety signage always needs to be clear and visible. Although this situation does not come under legislation yet, it is still communicating vitally important messages to keep people as safe as possible, “to us, it is a safety message and the reason we don’t see this as any different to implementing any safety signage onto your premises,” continued Clayton. “The best way to do this is to work with experts in safety signs who are used to designing signs that communicate safety messages in a clear and easy to understand way, as well as providing advice on what you need and where it should be placed.”

Paul also continued: “One of the things I have picked up on during the last 3 months is a term I heard, CCE – Covid Customer Experience. We have to face the reality that this situation is not going away quickly and everything we do today will affect our brand for the future, ask yourself this, how do you want people to talk about how your brand; as a supplier or an employer,  dealt with Covid-19?”

If you are looking to re-open your doors, you can download a FREE copy of Spectrum Industrials guide, which provides useful information and tips at www.spectrum-industrial.co.uk.

For more information about Spectrum Industrial and their product range visit www.spectrum-industrial.co.uk or email sales@spectrum-industrial.co.uk.

PA Life LIVE: Can you help PAs and Office Managers with their post-lockown business reboot projects?
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While many have been furloughed during the lockdown, research by FM Briefing sister publication PA Life has revealed that over 89% of Executive and Personal Assistants are still working.

Many have picked up responsibilities in various areas, including office and facilities management. As well as helping their leadership teams prepare health and safety procedures for offices opening up again.

The PA Life LIVE Post Lockdown Reboot conference will provide PAs and EAs with advice on the key areas they are currently navigating, namely:

  • Risk Assessment & Planning For A Safe Office
  • Planning For A New Kind Of Office Christmas Party
  • Keeping Teams Well & Motivated
  • What Will Business Travel Look Like Post-Lockdown?
  • Corporate Gifting

We are offering solution providers the opportunity to present their products and services via a live 2-minute pitch to our attendees.
There is limited availability of just five pitches for each seminar session.

To find out more and request packages and costs, contact Courtney Saggers on 01992 374088 / c.saggers@forumevents.co.uk.

Understand occupancy and adhere to social distancing with Genetec
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Facilities managers will be at the forefront of social distancing compliance. Leveraging technology is the best way to achieve this – keeping people safe in an efficient and non-evasive manner.

Genetec makes this possible via its Occupancy Management Package , which includes analytics and reporting tools like no other. Users can easily count the number of people in a building, visualise data, and alert employees when occupancy limits are being reached. Facilities managers responsible for monitoring the situation can receive alerts on a mobile device, via email, or on their Security Center dashboard.

It even produces audit reports to demonstrate a business’s compliance with physical distancing regulations.

Click here to find out more.

Can you improve your CHP investment?
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By Onsite Energy Projects

Have you invested in CHP in the last 3-4 years, or are you considering it ? If you haven’t yet, we may be able to provide a zero capex solution delivering significant savings.

If you have already invested, we may be able to help improve returns and reduce your business costs even more by helping you use all the power generated more efficiently.  Likewise if the performance or availability of the CHP has disappointed, we can assist with practical advice and review or renegotiate contract terms.

CCL costs on gas are set to rise by 90% by 2025.  So unless you qualify for an exemption (such as a  climate change agreement), you are going to see your returns eroded.  To those who are “power only” out there, it’s time to think out of the box and ensure you use the heat productively. We can help.

We specialise in making use of the waste heat from CHP or other busines processes.  Technologies to use heat productively now mean that in the right conditions we can use waste heat to produce as low as -40oC (to replace blast freezing, cold stores) or as high as 300oC (furnaces, cooking and frying), and pretty much everything in between, allowing us to reduce energy costs even further.

We can provide a free review of CHP performance, operating costs and options for improvement.

In the right circumstances, we could even purchase your existing CHP and provide discounted power back to you – so you still keep some of the savings and resilience benefits but also release cash for your core business in these challenging times.

This is the reason Onsite Energy Projects exists – we help businesses innovative, and implement the full potential of both energy efficiency and on-site generation measures.  We recognised the challenge of capex availability and can provide a no-capex, off-balance sheet solution.

If you would like to know more email us at info@on-site.energy or call on 0161 444 9989.

Onsite Energy Projects provides energy savings and energy generation solutions to energy intensive businesses, without capex if required.

Don’t let COVID-19 wreck your climate change plans
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By Onsite Energy Projects

We all need to refocus on the big issue of climate change, but we are facing a significant recession in the next few years. I predict that capex budgets are going to evaporate, and as a result investment plans are going to be put on hold. The consequence could be to derail our climate change and sustainability plans for some years to come.

At the same time, saving money has never been more important – to be competitive and grow jobs.  So how can you keep up the pace of sustainability gains, energy savings and make your business more competitive ?

Never has there been a better time to look at our zero capex, off-balance sheet solution.  We can help with energy savings ideas, sustainability innovation and develop the business cases for energy efficiency measures.  We can deliver them as an energy supply agreement without any cost to you.  All you need to do is pay for the power we provide (at a discount to what you are paying for grid power).

There is no cost to you for our analysis and recommendations.  We have experience in delivering solutions for complex manufacturing environments. We can particularly add value where you have a lot of use of heat, steam, chill or air conditioning.

In short we can accelerate your plans, not have them beaten back by lack of capital caused by COVID-19.

If you would like to know more email us at info@on-site.energy or call on 0161 444 9989.

Onsite Energy Projects provides energy savings and energy generation solutions to energy intensive businesses, without capex if required.

Speed up maintenance to keep the wheels turning
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Brady offers a wide range of identification and safety tools to support highly efficient maintenance professionals complete fast machine interventions. Test your maintenance score & download the Brady’s Maintenance visuals guidebook!

Fast machine interventions:

  • prepare fast machine interventions by identifying all machines and tools with industrial grade labels that can be barcoded with a Brady Label Printer to unlock additional information when needed
  • have label barcodes link to approved, machine-specific, step-by-step maintenance instructions in our LINK360 software and app.
  • set up machine or area specific tool shadow boards to have relevant tools within reach

Efficient maintenance:

  • add machine safety signs and area specific signs that clearly communicate risks and countermeasures to help prevent accidents during maintenance operations
  • neutralise machine energy during maintenance with Lockout/Tagout to avoid severe injuries
  • quickly stop and remove the occasional spill with fast absorbing spill control solutions that are easy to dispose of

Test your maintenance score & Download the Maintenance visuals guidebook >>

BRADY U.K.

Wildmere Industrial Estate

Banbury, Oxon OX16 3JU

Tel: +44 (0) 1295 228 288

csuk@bradycorp.com

www.brady.co.uk

Spectrum Industrial extends its range of Social Distancing and Hygiene signs and launches new brochure
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Manufacturer of safety signage and products Spectrum Industrial have added even more signs to their range of social distancing and hygiene signs by popular demand.

The extended range includes floor graphics to help the flow of traffic within premises as well as providing instructions to visitors on the route they should take, a range of site safety notices providing your on site rules to visitors in relation to covid -19, temporary signs for those needing to provide instructions to people whilst in their vehicles, new hygiene and PPE signs and finally hygiene / sneeze guards.

“We have worked hard to develop a signage range to suit customers needs so they could react quickly, However, as we now start to talk to those who are preparing their premises for when restrictions are lifted, there are many more factors to consider and different industries face different challenges, so we had to look at where signage could help and extend our range to suit,” said Paul Kantecki, Managing Director.

“As those businesses deemed as essential have or continue to roll out their social distancing and hygiene programs, we are now seeing many businesses start to look at how they can re-open and how they can keep employees, customers and visitors safe when they do re-open.  Its not easy, and although we can help with signage to provide clear instruction and information, there are so many other factors and challenges businesses are having to think about, and as a business owner myself, it’s not an easy task.”

The new signs have been launched in an updated version of Spectrum Industrials Social Distancing and Safety Signage brochure. The brochure showcases over 250 products, providing a comprehensive range.

Paul continued: “It won’t stop there. We are focusing on reviewing our range constantly to be able to support all businesses and facilities with the signage and products they require to help adhere to social distancing and keep staff, customers, and visitors safe. As we talk to customers and identify challenges, we will continue to identify solutions to best help them cost effectively and efficiently.”

Spectrum offer a wide selection of social distancing signs including anti slip floor stickers and strips, wall signs and entrance signs and the full range can be viewed on their website.  However, if customers cannot find what they are looking for or have bespoke requirements, Spectrum Industrial can easily make these designs to order at their manufacturing facility in Doncaster.

For more information about Spectrum Industrial and their product range visit www.spectrum-industrial.co.uk or email sales@spectrum-industrial.co.uk.