High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety

2nd edition
ISBN: 978-0-7506-7455-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety servers as an essential took for building architects, building owners and property managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants, and contract security firms.

* Provides the reader with complete coverage of high-rise security and safety issues * Includes comprehensive sample documentation, diagrams, photographs to aid in developing security and fire life safety programs * Serves as an essential tool for building owners and managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants and contract security firms

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craighead, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Polizeitechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Office Management, Büroorganisation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Arbeitsschutz- und Arbeitssicherheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction1. High-Rise Building Development and Utilization2. High-Rise Assets and Security and Fire Life Safety Threats3. Security and Fire Life Safety Uniqueness of High-Rise Buildings4. Security and Fire Life Safety Surveys5. Security Systems and Equipment6. Fire Life Safety Systems and Equipment7. Security Policies and Procedures8. Management of the Security Function;9. Investigations10. Building Emergencies11. Building Emergency Planning12. Laws, Codes and Standards13. Liaison with Law Enforcement and Fire Authorities14. Apartment and Residential Buildings, Hotels and Motels, and Hospitals and Health Care Facilities

Über Autor(innen)

Craighead, Geoff
Geoff Craighead is Vice President of High-Rise Services for Pinkerton, a Securitas Company. He has been involved with the security and life safety operations of high-rise facilities for over twenty years. He has been the security and fire safety director of a 62-story skyscraper and has conducted extensive security surveys and training, developed security policies and procedures, and written building emergency plans. He is certified by the Los Angeles Fire Department to provide high-rise life safety services and is Board Certified in Security Management (CPP) by ASIS International. He currently serves as President of the Professional Certification Board that administers certification programs for security professionals throughout the world, and Co-Chair of the BOMA Greater Los Angeles Security and Emergency Preparedness Committee