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Cutting Down On Employee Risk
There are a number of things you can do to reduce the chance that an employee will bring your
entire facility crashing down around your ears. Establishment of proper procedures for
maintenance, monitoring, and documentation is the first step. But there are also a few additional
measures you should take:

1. Have an emergency preparedness and response plan in place should an outage occur.
Who needs to know about it? Who’s responsible for addressing it? How should it be
reported?

2. Regularly evaluate your hiring process to ensure that you’re only bringing in the most
competent and skillful professionals and engineers.

3. Institute a mandatory, regularly refreshed training program that details workplace safety,
data center procedures, roles/duties, security information, etc. As an aside, make sure
roles and duties are clearly defined for each employee.

4. Ensure you’ve always the necessary professionals on-shift - technicians with electrical
and mechanical expertise are especially valuable.
5. Control access to restricted areas - An electrician might need to be in the server room to
check equipment, but does an IT administrator really need access to the room in which
your switches are stored?

About The Author

Tim Mullahy is the General Manager at Liberty Center One. Liberty Center
One is a new breed of data center located in Royal Oak, MI. Liberty can
host any customer solution regardless of space, power, or
networking/bandwidth requirements. Tim can be reached on Twitter at
@LibertyCenter1 and at his company website, Liberty Center One

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