What siding maintenance problems should homeowners watch for?
Siding appears to fail suddenly but it actually degrades slowly over time and fails all at once. Visible signs of siding failure, like cracks in individual panels or sections of peeling paint, signify the end of a long degeneration process that occurred behind the siding for years. The important thing is to be able to…
How does an interlock program work from start to finish?
The subject of Ignition Interlock Programs generally falls within the areas of licensing, technology and human behavior. People practicing in the area of driver’s licensing, fleet risk management, and impaired driving generally get asked the same question but from different perspectives, what happens and in what order and where does the program go wrong with…
What Support Should a Car Breathalyzer Provider Offer?
Unlike other products, the success and failure of an ignition interlock program is largely in the hands of the administration of the program. While many different breath testers now use similar sensors to test for breath alcohol content, and report similar information, there are very significant differences between the services of different providers of interlock…
How can drivers compare local interlock service providers?
The programs can appear similar on paper (lists of devices certified by state, how often to monitor, how to report), but great variation can exist in several areas, how frequently to schedule a client for calibration, how many interlock service centers exist in a given geographical area, how a vendor will bill a client for…
How Can You Sweep Corners and Edges More Effectively?
Corners and edges constitute a disproportionate amount of cleaning problems and re-work. Floor space is generally easy to clean and most floor cleaning tools can easily be used to clean open floor areas. However, ninety degree junctions between walls and floors and behind door stops and along the bottom of fixed displays, etc. Are extremely…
Which Content Systems Support Large Documentation Teams?
The documentation team grows faster than the documentation tooling can keep up with. It can take some time until the signs are there in black and white, In the run-up to the release, reviews take longer, safety-related content is duplicated in nine versions for four products and the costs for translating new content exceed the…
What Makes a Child-Friendly Therapy Environment?
Many people associate the term ‘child-friendly settings for children with autism’ with settings full of wonderful ‘child-friendly’ features to create a lovely atmosphere and so on. For example, soft lighting, quiet areas, lots of different sensory items in bins etc. These are things that can easily be put in place and are unlikely to support…
How can parent groups organize fundraising campaigns?
Understand the unique challenges of Parent Groups. The typical base of volunteers for a Parent Group consists of parents of school-aged children. Thus, the typical base of volunteers for a Parent Group ‘flips’ every year or so. Thus, most treasurers of Parent Groups are parents with no accounting background whatsoever. And the fundraising period for…