Employee Safety Devices: Preparation and Selection
Keeping your employee safe is just a (panic) button away.
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Failing to select an ESD vendor could put your property at risk of:
- Fines for failure to comply with regulatory bodies.
- Increased employee turnover.
- Failure to meet your organization’s corporate social responsibility.
Preparing for and selecting an ESD vendor ensures your property:
- Has the necessary infrastructure (network) to support the IoT technology associated with ESDs.
- Empowers employees to feel in control of their safety.
- Meets all regulations and mandates being placed on the property.
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Book NowModule 1: Preparing for ESDs
The Purpose
- Create and gather the members of your ESD stakeholder team to meet and document legal requirements.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Formalized working group with representatives from each department involved in the ESD project.
- Documented list of the current and anticipated legal requirements your property will need to comply with.
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| 1.1 | Bring together your ESD stakeholder team. |
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| 1.2 | Speaking with each team members, understand their perspective and role in preparing the property and selecting ESD vendor. |
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| 1.3 | Understand the legal requirements of your property to implement ESDs. |
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| 1.4 | Identify what legal requirements your property is obligated to comply with. |
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Module 2: Identifying Capabilities and Opportunities
The Purpose
- Identify what your property’s current capabilities and limitations are when it comes to IT and other processes or procedures that exist within your hotel.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A clear understanding of what IT changes or upgrades your property would need to make in order to support ESDs.
- A holistic SWOT analysis that considers the various strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of all departments involved.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Conduct a holistic ESD SWOT analysis. |
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| 2.2 | Assess IT’s readiness and capabilities to support ESDs. |
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Module 3: Business Requirements
The Purpose
- Identify and document the business requirements that will inform project decisions and satisfy stakeholder needs.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Reduction in project time.
- Increased business and IT relationship as the project works to satisfy the needs of both IT and other stakeholders.
- More importantly, the applications delivered by IT will meet all of the must-have and at least some of the nice-to-have requirements, allowing end users to successfully execute their day-to-day responsibilities.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Conduct business requirements gathering. |
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Module 4: Vendor Evaluation and RFP Creation
The Purpose
- Review, understand, and consider potential vendors for your property’s ESDs.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Systematic review of the vendors that operate in this space.
- A shortlist of vendors your hotel is considering for its ESDs.
- A customized RFP that will be sent to shortlisted ESD vendors.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Review the ESD Vendor Landscape. |
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| 4.2 | Generate a vendor shortlist. |
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| 4.3 | Customize an RFP to send to shortlisted vendors. |
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| 4.4 | Prepare to evaluate vendors’ demonstrations and returned RFPs. |
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