Tag: Scott Lord
SIA, NSCA to release school safety guidelines, tools at ISC West
March 24, 2015Guest Blogger
One of the members of the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) likens the effort to enhance school security to the move decades ago to establish fire prevention, alarm and suppression standards for schools.“It's been over 50 years since a child has died in a fire in a school,” Scott Lord of All Systems said. “NFPA codes have been so effective that a school fire really isn't something that students, staff or parents worry about. We need to get school security to the same place.”PASS...
Mass notification goes mainstream
February 6, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
YARMOUTH, Maine—Military installations and college campuses are the two verticals best known for having mass notification systems. However, as that facet of the industry develops and grows, mass notification increasingly is in demand by a more diverse market, according to industry experts.In upstate New York, for example, industries ranging from an ice cream-making plant to an aerospace manufacturer have added mass notification systems. In the Midwest, commercial buildings are showing greater...