High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety

High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference for managing security and fire life safety in a high-rise facility. The book traces the development of high-rise buildings, including their uniqueness from a security and fire life safety perspective. Detailed information for conducting safety surveys, managing security programs, preparing for high-rise emergencies, and navigating the myriad laws, fire codes, and standards that regulate operations is provided throughout.

In addition to office buildings, the book also examines the safety issues of other high-rise buildings such as apartments and condominiums, hotels, and hospitals and healthcare facilities. A full chapter dedicated to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the shocking destruction of the World Trade Center towers serves to illustrate the importance of having a working fire-life safety program in place.

KEY FEATURES:

• Provides the reader with complete coverage of high-rise security and safety issues
• Includes comprehensive sample documentation, diagrams, photographs to aid in developing security and fire life safety programs
• Serves as an essential tool for building owners and managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants and contract security firms

"High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is THE book to have on your desk. With all the information out there, this is the practical, day-to-day compendium for all your security and life safety concerns."--Jesse E. Peterman, Director of Security, Empire State Building, New York, NY USA

Geoff Craighead is Vice President of High-Rise Services for Pinkerton, a Securitas Company. He has been involved with the security and life safety operations of high-rise facilities for over twenty years. He has been the security and fire safety director of a 62-story skyscraper and has conducted extensive security surveys and training, developed security policies and procedures, and written building emergency plans. He is certified by the Los Angeles Fire Department to provide high-rise life safety services and is Board Certified in Security Management (CPP) by ASIS International. He currently serves as President of the Professional Certification Board that administers certification programs for security professionals throughout the world, and Co-Chair of the BOMA Greater Los Angeles Security and Emergency Preparedness Committee