Today’s fire panels utilize modular architectures that incorporate innovations in network configuration, audio, circuit survivability and, when connecting to external networks, adequate levels of cybersecurity.
According to the 2022 Campus Safety Emergency Notification Survey, fewer organizations are using more than one alert system, which could put them at risk during a crisis.
The Campus Safety BEST Awards recognize superlative security, law enforcement, emergency management, and life safety solutions.
“Keep your experiments in the lab and supervised by trained professionals,” BYU campus police told students in a Twitter post after the explosion.
Here are some fire alarm and voice evacuation practices campus life safety professionals can glean from last year’s Miami condo collapse that killed 98 people.
Open-area Smoke Imaging Detection (OSID) offers early warning in high, voluminous spaces without intrusive ceiling mount
Identify your risks at the start of your mass notification project, but also during the project and for as long as the MNS system is in use.
The NFPA Ecosystem Assessment Tool gives communities the opportunity to revisit safety practices before weaknesses in the system lead to tragedies.
Surveyed facility managers cite campus access control, site security and occupant safety as key focus areas.
An alternative to single purpose gunshot detection devices would be a camera with gunshot analytics built-in, which could detect gunshots, explosions, screams and glass-break events.