FMLink Newsletter — Maintenance and Operations — June 18, 2020

This Operations & Maintenance newsletter is one of a series of five specialized newsletters, supplementing our weekly general newsletter (sent on Mondays). For each of five weeks you will receive a different specialized newsletter on Thursdays or Fridays, focusing on a different FM-related area. To manage which ones you receive, click on the link below.

This newsletter covers operations and maintenance news from May 21 through June 17, 2020.

TOP STORIES

Here are the CDC’s guidelines to open and operate as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic (Products and Services » Publications)

Should you use a fogging machine for COVID-19 decontamination? No, says this CIRI technical document (Products and Services » Publications)

Benchmarking your security staffing (Benchmarking » FM BENCHMARKING)

BOMA issues best practices to help industrial properties navigate the “new normal;” also, how FMs should handle fire drills and evacuations now (Products and Services » Publications)

Purchasing and procurement (Magazines » FMJ)
Leveraging strategies to maximize your budget

The missing link: Sustainable reuse and recycling of building products (Sustainability » FEA (Facility Engineering Associates, P.C.))
You’d be surprised by how much of a renovation project goes to the dump instead of reuse and recycling

5 tips to upgrade and prepare your restrooms for reopening (Surveys and Trends)

Effective cleaning in schools and senior living facilities (Magazines » ISSA Today)
Keeping at-risk members of society healthy.

MORE STORIES

Find out how this new surface nanocoating can kill coronavirus particles on contact (Products and Services » Safety and Health)

See how this rugged battery charger can improve reliability and runtime for lower-watt charging applications (Energy » Products and Services)

If you need outsourced services from maintenance to packaged food that are bundled to serve the “new normal,” check out Sodexo’s latest (Products and Services » Services)

Need deep cleaning for your building as occupants return? SERVPRO offers a service based on CDC, EPA protocols (Products and Services » Services)

Let your building occupants check whether a specific room or surface has been sanitized — or request it — with these QR tags (Cleaning Equipment, Supplies & Technology » Products and Services)

These new thermal access control cameras can help you detect fevers. One even prompts mask compliance (Products and Services » Safety and Health)

To facilitate workforce screening as buildings reopen, Quest now offers both on-site testing services and at-home kits (Products and Services » Safety and Health)