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FM Clinic: Employer responsibilities for homeworkers’ health and ergonomic wellbeing

News reports suggest that Working from bed (WFB) has grown in popularity since the start of the pandemic. What are employers’ responsibilities to ensure home based staff observe safe, ergonomic working habits to protect their health and reduce the chances ...

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Adaptive learning

Darren Hockley, Managing Director of eLearning provider, DeltaNet International on ensuring your training is innovative and accessible in 2021 and beyond It’s safe to say that 2020 was a challenging year for business. From the unprecedented switch to homeworking for ...

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Everything on the line to keep us safe

Blog from Theo Nicolaou, Co-Founder and Director, Smartsec Solutions Since the start of the pandemic, a lot has rightly been said about the role the police, couriers, supermarket and NHS staff have played in keeping us safe. However, there remains ...

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Secure standard

David Goodfellow, UK Business Assurance Manager at TÜV SÜD advises that adopting the leading security standard ISO/IEC 27001 can help ensure FMs avoid damaging cybersecurity breaches The prevalence of cyberattacks and data breaches is making companies increasingly concerned about the ...

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Kitted out for COVID

Marta Kalas of Thomson Screening offers useful advice on how to create a COVID Safety Toolkit for your premises Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, and will remain with us for the medium term at least. This means facilities managers ...

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Changes to red diesel regulations: Advice on maintaining critical assets

Mark Griffiths, Head of Business Development at Adler and Allan, discusses the importance of evaluating your assets in preparation for upcoming legislative reform to red diesel. In the 2020 budget, the government announced that many sectors will lose their entitlement ...

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Data intelligence

Rebecca Salvatore reports on how TC Facilities Management’s collaboration with Datore to create business intelligence dashboards and provide advanced analytics has helped TCFM support colleagues, manage the COVID-19 pandemic and become the trusted partner of choice for clients According to ...

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From the front: Stay on course

In the latest in our series which celebrates the contribution made by FMs working at the service front line, Facilities Coordinator for NHS Property Services, Ana Maria Pinto describes how completing a demanding apprenticeship programme has helped her manage her ...

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Back to school

As pupils go back to school there are a number of safety measures schools need to implement to ensure the health and wellness of staff, students and school communities says Matthew Margetts, Director of Sales and Marketing at Smarter Technologies ...

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Collaborative thinking

Taff Farrell the Lead on Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement at VINCI explains why their new white paper on Collaboration in FM can help practitioners put the ideals into practice Collaboration within FM has long been recognised as an important ...

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