article thumbnail

SIA New Member Profile: Shot Alert

Security Industry Association

Shot Alert CEO Neil Clark New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Shot Alert specializes in fully automated gunshot detection and active shooter response. Enter the world’s most effective active shooter response system. Patent 10,054,576 B2 in August 2018. And what makes your offerings or your company unique?

Alert 75
article thumbnail

SIA New Member Profile: HavenLock

Security Industry Association

After the 2018 tragedy in Parkland, Florida, the company focused its efforts on the commercial school security market to tackle the growing active shooter problem. I decided to take action and develop a locking system that was the strongest, most integrated device for home use. And what makes your offerings or your company unique?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Counting Costs: The Impact of a Government Shutdown on the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Also, in contrast to the most recent government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days in December 2018 and January 2019 and was only partial, as appropriations had already been agreed to for the U.S. 30 – looming large.

article thumbnail

Detecting and Confronting Procurement Fraud

Risk Management Monitor

For example, in 2018, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) procurement official was indicted for receiving over $300,000 in illegal bribes and gratuities from a construction company that performed work for MBTA. Here are three ways to help your business become less vulnerable to fraudulent activity: 1.

article thumbnail

B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The road up to this point has been long anticipated across the emergency and disaster management community in B.C.

article thumbnail

Deadly North Carolina Construction Blaze Could Spark Update to State Fire Code to Include More from NFPA 241

National Fire Protection Association

Currently, NFPA 241 is briefly referenced in the 2018 North Carolina Fire Prevention Code, which is the latest version of the code, but experts say a fuller incorporation of the 2022 edition of NFPA 241 could help reduce the risk of more fires like the one that razed a multistory apartment complex under construction in Charlotte on May 18.

article thumbnail

SIA New Member Profile: Paratus Consultants Group

Security Industry Association

Herb Ubbens : Paratus Consultants Group began in 2018 after leaving the commercial real estate risk and security world with our two main principals – myself and Robert Batista, PPS. We are actively involved in organizations such as SIA, ASIS International, ASTM, InfraGard, NYPD SHIELD and the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP).