10 Mar 10 Safety First: A Meeting Planner Reminder
When it is your responsibility to host an important business meeting or conference, it never hurts to double-check your accommodations for working safety exits, up-to-date fire extinguishers, and for current supplies inside of the first aid kits. With all eyes on the planet currently turned towards the news of earthquakes, solar storms, and flooding, your meeting attendees will look at you with renewed admiration if you have taken their personal safety concerns into your own hands before anything bad can happen.
Safety Tips:
- Always know where the emergency exits are for every room that you enter while traveling. In America, the emergency exits are normally well-marked. However, even well-marked exits can be hard to find after a disaster has happened. Take steps to ensure that your guests know where their emergency equipment and exits are located.
- Fire doors at some locations are accidentally locked to prevent intruders from bothering hotel guests or causing damages to the property. If you are at a meeting with locked fire doors, explain your safety concerns to the management and request that the applicable fire doors remain unlocked for the duration of your meeting.
- Before a meeting begins, make sure that you know about possible outside hazards that might disrupt your plans unexpectedly, and make sure that the conference room comes complete with a set of local safety instructions that are available for everybody to read in their native language.
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23 Jul 09 Doing Your Part for the Economy–Stay a Planner!
With meetings being canceled left and right and critics pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves, it’s hard to justify sticking with it. Planners in every field are suffering, including festival and wedding planners. The world is a hotbed of anxiety and judgmental voices seem to take up residence in everyone’s head these days.
However, if you are a meeting planner who wants to make a difference, the best thing you can do is stay where you are and help our industry regain its rightful place in the business world. There are some things you can do to motivate yourself to stay with it through the tough times. (more…)
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