by Jon Kern | 15 November 2017 | Article
In high risk, high reward research environments facilities staff, environmental health and safety, and risk managers understand the need for pre-incident plans at several levels. First, nothing can go wrong! Unlike many other business functions, the R&D and...
by Jon Kern | 14 November 2017 | Article, Guest Speaker
What is “financing risk?” Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) take on a lot of risk in search of great reward. While you might be happy to take that risk, that risk often bites you in the rear and someone has to cough up money to pay for it. If this sounds a lot...
by Jon Kern | 7 November 2017 | Article
I got the call early one Labor Day morning, “Can you come into work early? There has been a foam release at one of the hangars and we need some extra manpower.” I’m an Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Captain at a small regional airport in New...
by Jon Kern | 18 October 2017 | Article
Survey says? Nah, not Family Feud, that’s a Jeopardy question. What is… Building Information Modeling? Correct, BIM is both a best practice process and 3D modeling that building designers use to create a project with integrated information to be shared...
by Jon Kern | 18 October 2017 | Article
It’s 2pm in the afternoon and you get a call that your main corporate center is on fire with employees trapped on the upper floors. As a manager, panic starts to kick in as you mentally go through your preparation for this day asking, “Did I do...