Today’s hospitals and specialized care facilities integrate a slew of building technologies to ensure all systems function as intended to provide state-of-the-art care for patients. Many of these ...

Here’s an interesting concept for an alarm clock, the Smash Alarm Clock from designer Matthias Lange. When the alarm goes off in the morning, just smash the alarm clock with your fist and the alarm ...

Alarm clocks have the unenviable job of making us do something we typically don't want to do -- hauling our asses out of bed every morning. But that fraught relationship leads to an interesting ...

In 1999, the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users’ Association (EEMUA) released its general guide to the design, management, and procurement of alarm systems for industrial plants. The guidance ...

A fire detection and alarm system must be installed and maintained correctly by experienced personnel. This is where ISO has stepped in, with its new international ISO 7240-14:2013 standard on the ...

Alarm fatigue poses serious safety risks to patients and is a major source of nursing dissatisfaction. How did we get here and how can we fix things? Andrew Hyncik Step into an ICU and you will ...

Management of Alarm Systems (IC39) focuses on the key alarm management lifecycle activities as outlined in ISA's standard, ANSI/ISA18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries. The ...