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As part of Facilities Management Advisor‘s coverage during our Healthy Buildings Week 2022 event, this infographic outlines how facilities management professionals and employers must use proper signs and tags in the workplace to help keep occupants healthy and safe.
In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, top advocates in facilities management offer insights and inspiration for both seasoned professionals and women considering a career in the space. Please help spread the empowerment by sharing this Q&A infographic!
Organizational leadership requires information to help their businesses function, and facilities management professionals can’t escape that fact. A key part of your job, then, will be tracking data and producing reports detailing everything from costs of materials to labor. It’s good to familiarize yourself with the types of reports you’ll be required to produce so […]
As a facility manager, you’ve heard it plenty of times: a clean facility saves you money. How? Surfaces within facilities tend to collect bacteria throughout the day, from a wide variety of sources. Be it employees returning to work from an illness, someone forgetting to wash their hands after using a facility’s restroom, or someone […]
To accompany their article, University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy’s online Executive Master of Urban Planning program put together an infographic that takes a look at some longitudinal data regarding wildfire intensity and severity. In accordance with these increases, the data highlight the exponential increase in the cost to fight each fire, […]
Most people head off to work everyday feeling confident that they will make it home injury-free at the end of each day. However, as any good facility manager knows, that doesn’t mean that hazards don’t exist in their buildings. The following infographic from Creative Safety Supply details the leading causes of injuries in the workplace, […]
When you or your tenants are looking to design the work spaces at your facility, form should tend to follow function. You need a design, and the furniture, that makes the most sense for your organization’s goals. In the planning stages, then, you’ve got an important choice to make: which furniture option makes the most […]
Every type of work comes with some risk of injury. These can range from back pain to other musculoskeletal disorders, repetitive motion injuries, hearing damage, or even stress. As a facility manager, you may be called on to work with management to help address some of these issues, and as such, it helps to understand […]
We’re in a relatively open job market right now, with more jobs available than people to fill them. However, that’s not likely to last forever, so now is as good a time as any to revisit your resume to make sure you stand out above the rest. This infographic from iOffice has plenty of info […]
An emergency at your facility can happen at any time. Depending on the circumstances, you may only have moments to act to prevent a minor problem from escalating to severe damage, or worse, a catastrophic loss. One solution could rest in the palm of your hands: a mobile facilities dashboard. These programs allow you to […]