Ken Senser, Senior Vice President of Global Security, Aviation, and Travel (GSAT) for Walmart, has announced his retirement, and Brian Murphy has been named Vice President of Global Security and Aviation, effective March 2019.
FedEx introduced the FedEx SameDay Bot — an autonomous delivery robot designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries to their customers.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce launched the Institute for a Safer Florida (ISF) to “focus its energy and expertise on enhancing school and workplace safety.”
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for the 2018 safety performance of the commercial airline industry showing continuing safety improvements over the long term, but an increase in accidents compared to 2017.
In 1995, a domestic terrorist detonated a rental truck filled with a potent, home-made bomb built from fertilizer and other easily available chemicals, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and wounding hundreds more.
The New Year brings the possibility of a fresh start, new ideas and goals, and hope for a better tomorrow. And never before has a year started out with such a large focus on how the future can be improved through the promise of technology.
The days of a security officer spending their shift watching a few rows of grainy video footage are long gone. Operators today are being asked to actively monitor events from hundreds of video cameras, while also overseeing countless alarms from other devices such as door readers, intrusion panels, perimeter detection sensors, building automation controls and more.
House Bill 1283 in Mississippi that would create the “Mississippi School Safety Act of 2019” would require schools to conduct active shooter drills within the first two months of each semester.
Statistics released in the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report revealed overall declines in the number of violent crimes and property crimes reported for the first six months of 2018 when compared with figures for the first six months of 2017.
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