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We’re often asked if we really believe training can save lives. We do! And here’s why:

Training is one of the most important tools used to enhance employee performance. This is especially true in life-threatening situations like responding to a fire, earthquake, bomb threat, medical emergency or other natural or man-made disasters. Your ability to know what to do and react immediately with the correct response can save lives.

The key to successful training that has high rates of retention is to train staff broadly to understand goals and constraints of each emergency situation, rather than training narrowly to follow sets of procedures without thinking.

Bob Westmore is frequently quoted as saying, “Emergencies never read the plans written to address them.”  In other words, no two emergency situations are exactly alike. More intuitive training developed by RJWestmore and utilized on the RJWestmore Online Fire Life Safety Training System, increases retention rates by 60% to 200% while it teaches users to learn to recognize situations and adapt their responses as appropriate to achieve the safest outcome.

Proper response training is the only way to proactively prevent the loss of life in an emergency situation. We can help.

BE SAFE!

At RJWestmore, we keep current on all policies and trends affecting safety training at commercial properties. In fact, our own CEO, Bob Westmore, is attending an important workshop today in Los Angeles: New Highrise Evacuation Ordinance.

The workshop is being presented by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Los Angeles (BOMA/GLA), and representatives from the Los Angeles City Fire Department will be speaking on important building stipulations including:

• "New Training requirements for Fire Safety Directors and Floor Wardens,
• "Methods for tracking tenant evacuation training,
• "Full building evacuation requirements for buildings over 35 stories, and
• "Fees associated with new training requirements."

We’re also serving as one of the sponsors for this important event, which covers life-saving provisions such as emergency preparation and evacuation training.

We hope to see you there!

There are three basic layers of compliance law related to fire life safety training in Los Angeles.

Federal Law – OSHA Code 1910.38 under Standards – 29 CFR – Training. An employer with 10 or more employees must designate and train employees to assist in a safe and orderly evacuation of other employees.

California Law – Title 19 Section 3.09 of the California Code of Regulations and local ordinances/codes, each tenant within a high-rise building shall assist in the implementation of the building’s Emergency Plan.

EACH TENANT SHALL:
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