Michigan’s Scrap Metal Regulatory Act bars cash payment for copper wire and requires dealers to tag and hold undocumented loads. Both provisions depend on how fast you report and how well your own crew documents legitimate scrap disposal.
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Holiday theft clusters in a window that opens on the Thursday before the weekend and closes the following Wednesday. Coverage bought for Saturday and Sunday leaves the two highest-risk days open.
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The theft figures this industry quotes came from a report on the 2014 data year. Here is what those reports measured, what the recovery rate was, and how to read a statistics page before you cite one.
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OSHA and NFPA 51B give two different post-work fire watch periods. The number that applies to your jobsite depends on the edition your fire code official adopted, and the patrol has to reach the space directly above the work.
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The questions to ask a security guard company fall into three groups: proof of compliance, proof of staffing, and proof of what happens when something goes wrong at 2am. Twelve questions cover all three. What separates a useful question from a wasted one is the answer you plan to accept. Each question below includes what
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To read a security contractor’s certificate of insurance, check four places: the limits against your contract, the additional insured column, the waiver of subrogation column, and the workers’ compensation section. The form is almost always ACORD 25, the Certificate of Liability Insurance. It fits on one page. Most of what a facilities manager needs appears
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A fire watch is required in Michigan when a fire protection system is out of service and the fire code official calls for one. Notify the fire department and the fire code official immediately, then evacuate the building or post an approved watch until the system returns to service. That comes from Section 901.7 of
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Michigan licenses the security company itself, and each guard works as its employee. Here is the five-minute check on the agency license number, the state record, and the bond behind it.
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