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Partnerships Accelerate Move to Building IoT

In the past few years, giant technology companies like Dell and Intel have entered the building products market. If you haven't noticed, that's because, in many cases, the technology companies are working quietly with existing building products manufacturers to provide the latter with up-to-date hardware and software that can be incorporated into their products. Those partnerships, as well as arrangements with smaller tech firms, are making it far easier for building product companies to introduce Internet of Things (IoT) enabled product lines. Click through to learn more about how these partnerships are accelerating change in the facility product market.

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Tips for Creating a Safety Plan

When a facility is committed to creating and maintaining a safe work environment, it shows. Frank Dunn, a field services specialist at RMF Engineering, began his career in construction as a pipefitter, but for the last 13 years, he has performed construction observations and testing on industrial and institutional projects for RMF. When he's working as an OSHA-authorized construction trainer, he asks FMs to imagine what their facility "says" to people. Click through to learn other tips for creating safety plans and protocols, and share some of your own.

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Equal Opportunity Diaper Duty

President Obama has just signed into law that restroom facilities in public buildings with public bathrooms provide equal access to baby changing facilities. The bill, H.R.5147, known as the Bathrooms Accessible in Every Situation (or BABIES) Act, only applies to federal buildings with restrooms available to the public. Do you already provide baby changing facilities in your restrooms, for men and women? Any challenges this law might stir up? Read more on this and baby changing table regulations enacted in California, and let me know.

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