Re: Minimum staf at a central

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

"Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "nick markowitz" <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de groupe
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>> On Feb 1, 9:40 pm, "Petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Any one here can tell me there feeling about what would be the minimum
>>> number of operator in a central station that have around 14k client?
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>> Ul requires 2 minimum operators for small central  check with UL as
>> they have a formula for how many operators must be present per so many
>> accounts.
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> Thanks for the infi Nick, the only problem is that the central is in
> Canada..(but they do supervise some US client)
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> I will check With ULC if they have the same type of formula..
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> But while we are at it.. Would you feel confortable if your monitoring
> station would have only one operator on site from 1500 to 1700 on a week
> day and at the same time there was a snow storm outside..
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> dont assume that its because one operator was not able to come.. there was
> no one program beside the guy that was allready there..
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I'm pretty sure they need at least two at all times, but I thought the
formula was not necessarily how many accounts/operator, but rather that a
certain % of alarm signals had to be handled by an operator within a set
period of time after it was received,  45 seconds???

Doug