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Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Materials

October 21, 2020
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S. 1750 Clean School Bus Grant Program

October 19, 2020
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Photo by Architect of the Capitol | Left: The teacher and children in a “little red schoolhouse” represent an important part of American education in the 1800s.
Right: Students attend a land grant college, symbolic of the national commitment to higher learning.

A BILL To establish a working group on electric vehicles, and for other purposes.

 

Active Shooter & Hostile Event Response Program

October 19, 2020
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We have been following the fast-tracked development of NFPA 3000 Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program since its launch.  We have contributed to it and we have catalyzed education industry trade associations to rally their membership to participate.   Keep in mind that there are several other non-profit trade associations moving into this space; each of them assembling experts and preparing curricula to drive conformity, compliance and training revenue.   Nothing necessarily wrong with this except that the active shooter risk aggregation is highly “siloed” and setting the standard of care is, well, highly-siloed.

Click on the link below to sample the ideas running through proposed revisions to the next edition:

NFPA 3000 Second Draft Report

NFPA 3000 First Ballot Final

NFPA 3000 Second Draft Ballot Final

Notice the wordsmithing, the internal coordination and administration, and the referencing to existing and new consensus products emerging in this space.

Similar to the condition in the energy sector in which the federal government has to effectively “clear the market” of redundancy and destructive competition among market participants (i.e. trade associations),  we may find that some form of federal legislation may be required.  As we explain in our post on the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act that there lies a risk of damping normal, healthy “animal spirit” competition among trade associations.

All that said, NFPA consensus products are very familiar to the public safety culture in local and state governments so it is wise to keep pace; if not lead when necessary.   Note that NFPA 3000 is a trademarked consensus product; tantamount to becoming a “code” that can be incorporated by reference into public safety laws at all levels of government.

Principal and Alternate Votes on the NFPA Technical Committee from educational institutions: Harvard School of Public Health,  Auburn University,  Missouri State University, University of Connecticut and Vanderbilt University.  None of them are casting User-interest votes according to the NFPA Classification of Committee Members.  In other words,  no representative of an entity that is subject to the provisions of the standard or that voluntarily uses the standard — such as a student or a teacher — has a vote on this committee.   They will depend upon the standard of care set by other interest categories.  See our ABOUT to understand why this is.  

The next several milestones in the NFPA 3000 development are listed below:

Normally, NITMAMs are heard at the NFPA Annual Conference and Expo.  It is likely that the NFPA Standards Council will release NFPA 3000 for use by regulating agencies in lieu of the meeting that would have taken place in June.  (CLICK HERE for information about cancellation of the NFPA Annual Conference)

We keep NFPA 3000, along with other emergent school security standards, on the agenda with our Security, Risk and Pathway teleconference  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.

Issue [18-15]

Category: Public Safety, Risk Management

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben


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IN FORCE911 WhitePaper

U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Active Shooter: How to Respond


ARCHIVE / NFPA 3000 ASHER

School Security Standards

While Riding By on Horseback

October 18, 2020
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Who Is the User-Interest?

October 16, 2020
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University of Michigan 1855

We are not a non-profit.

We are not a blog.

We are not a proxy for incumbents.

We are not standards evangelizers .

We are not “Oracle of Change” trendsniffers.

We do not claim to be an opinion aggregator

We get results.

Visit us  across from the University of Michigan campus. 

 

The Standards Michigan logo  — designed about ten years ago during the 25-year tenure of the original University of Michigan standards advocacy enterprise –reflects the three interest groups in the global standards system generally, and the United States specifically.  The design was inspired from experience advocating safety and sustainability concepts in the National Electrical Code and coming to understand that the National Fire Protection Association — which was then, and remains so — the most rigorous standards setting organization in the United States, was having difficulty meeting the ANSI balance requirements [§2.3].  If NFPA was having trouble getting users to participate, what was it like for other ANSI accredited standards setting organizations?

At the University of Michigan Ross School of Business,  Joe Bhatia, Chairman of the American National Standards Institute drove home the point to the education industry which is the foundation of all industries in every nation:

Archive / UM Welcomes ANSI 2014

Still, the private standards system, a relatively small part of the global standards system generally, is still better than having leading practice determined by politicians, their staffs, their contractors and their donors.

Touchy subject.

Join us today when we look at one or two technical committee rosters — and where in the world their meetings are held and how often.  If there is time, we will review the balloting patterns on one or two technical topics which have significantly contributed to making education communities safer, simpler, lower-c0st and longer lasting.  When you do that for education communities; you are effectively doing it for all other industries.


*We time-stamped the hashtag #WiseCampus on Twitter about 3 years ago; knowing that the half-life of buzzwords needed by education industry trade associations to drive conference revenue has grown shorter.   The pandemic is enough of a singularity that we are inspired us to be more visible with it in our Twitter feed.

Workspace / NFSI

October 16, 2020
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Seismic Risk Assessment of Real Estate Portfolios

October 15, 2020
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神奈川沖浪裏, ‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa’

ASTM International publishes best practice titles that appear frequently in physical asset management enterprises.   You find them referenced deep in risk management agreements, construction contracts and in the documents that set the standard of care in design, maintenance and operations.  Now comes notification from the ASTM Committee E06 Performance of Buildings of a new standardization project to manage risk in the financial support for buildings with seismic risk —  ASTM WK55885 New Practice for Seismic Risk Assessment of Real Estate Portfolios.   Many large research universities have multiple properties in seismic zones.  From the project prospectus:

Scope and Purpose: Real estate portfolios for mortgage lenders and property owners often include many properties distributed across many regions or multiple states. Seismic risk assessment for a group of real estate properties (a portfolio) differs from PML investigations for a single building (as treated in ASTM E2026 and E2557). The geographical diversification of the portfolio is a fundamental characteristic that differentiates it from the investigation of a single site.  

Project Need: Proper treatment of the complex variables associated with seismic risk assessments at multi-property portfolios requires a new, separate standard, with an appropriate stakeholder focus, and a more complex computational approach more consistent with (probabilistic) earthquake insurance models, but accommodating structural engineering input. As such, this proposed scope for seismic risk assessments of multiproperty Portfolios will generally resemble the scope used for the single building standard (ASTM E2026), however with materially different multiproperty components within the same framework.

Stakeholders: Whole Buildings and Facilities industries

This is a new project identified in ANSI’s Project Initiation Notification System and does not yet have a draft open for public review; only a notification to assure and hasten harmonization among accredited standards developers (Link to ANSI Standards Action | PDF Page 15).

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The ASTM Subcommittee E06.25 on Whole Buildings and Facilities cancelled its October meeting in Orlando next week.  No further information provided on its landing page.

We maintain the ASTM bibliography on several agendas — Sport, Risk, Prometheus, to name a few.   This title is part of an expanding constellation of standards for facility management.  When public consultations become available for education community asset managers we will identify them.  ASTM makes it fairly easy for students and faculty to access its consensus products.  CLICK HERE for more information.

 

Issue: [18-189]

Category: Risk Management

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben

 


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University of Washington Seismic Building Inspections

 

 

Recommended Practice for Prefabrication of Electrical Installations for Construction

October 9, 2020
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National Ambient Air Quality Standards

October 9, 2020
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Collision Resistant Hash Function for Blockchain in V2V Communication

October 9, 2020
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