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Re: Minimum staf at a central



To be compliant at all times, do what ADT & Brinks does...hire CS
operators with multiple personality disorders... :)

Jim Rojas





Bob Worthy wrote:
> I believe it is one person dedicated to handling strickly alarm activity and
> a second  person that can have split responsiblities, such as data entry and
> alarm activity, filing in at breaks etc. I am not so sure that OSHA might
> not have a say about just one person (employee) working in a building by
> themselves. Just a thought.
>
> Bob W.
>
> "Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:oEthl.3091$mq5.2990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>
>> "Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:gm5nu2$r83$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> "nick markowitz" <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de groupe
>>> de discussion :
>>> 9a36006e-b9cf-41f8-a419-44502e4829f5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> 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?
>>>> 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.
>>> Thanks for the infi Nick, the only problem is that the central is in
>>> Canada..(but they do supervise some US client)
>>>
>>> I will check With ULC if they have the same type of formula..
>>>
>>> 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..
>>>
>>> dont assume that its because one operator was not able to come.. there
>>> was no one program beside the guy that was allready there..
>>>
>>>
>> 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
>>
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