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SIA Member Profile: American Alarm and Communications

Security Industry Association

Security Industry Association (SIA) member American Alarm and Communications is a security systems integration and monitoring company serving homes and businesses across New England. SIA spoke with John Fallon, technical services manager at American Alarm, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Becoming proactive and investing in disaster risk reduction and enterprise resilience; through critical event management solutions, public safety solutions , and Public Warning systems. This is what, in the climate environment, the World Meteorological Organization and Disaster Management Agencies at national Government levels are doing.

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Managing Extreme Heat Events

everbridge

And we’re seeing those conditions further in the climates where it’s typically warmer anyway – it’s becoming a global concern that requires emergency managers to be prepared and have an effective communications and outreach plan. Emergency managers will remain busy coordinating resources for the cooling shelters as well.

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Severe Weather Preparedness: Managing Severe Weather Events During Other Crises

everbridge

Yet first responders, cybersecurity experts, emergency managers, and others in crisis management must remain vigilant. The pandemic has been characterized by twists and turns, and crisis managers can still expect it to be a factor as the hurricane and wildfire seasons, as well as potentially early winter storms, kick-off.

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The Only Guide to Crisis Management Training You’ll Ever Need

MHA Consulting

Many executives think practice is for grinds and star performers do things by the seat of their pants, but when it comes to crisis management, this approach is a good way to make a bad situation worse. Crisis management is highly dependent on personality. At best, it will be less efficient with errors that could have been prevented.

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How To Maintain Building and Equipment Access for the Responding Fire Department

National Fire Protection Association

When facility managers and building owners think of fire department access, they typically think about keeping a fire lane clear, so the responding fire department has a place to set up their equipment in case of an emergency. Typically, the fire alarm control unit is going to be located near a main entrance in an area such as the lobby.

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Space Made Simple: How PagerDuty Enabled Loft Orbital to Achieve Incident Response Lift Off by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

He helps build and manage the company’s proprietary ground control software, Cockpit—an all-in-one solution for satellite operations. Engineers control everything through Cockpit, from mission planning to communications between satellites and ground stations. Another requirement was rethinking the mission command center.