Bridge workers are responsible for routine construction, maintenance and repair, and other roadside improvement jobs as they relate to bridges. The role of bridge worker is vital to ensure that this much-needed infrastructure remains safe and sound for travelers year-round.
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Youth camps, also called summer camps and sleepaway camps, are meant to be a time for children to have fun, make friends, and maybe learn some new skills.
Youth camps come with a unique set of problems like safety and security issues and logistical problems. One way that youth camps are addressing these problems is by outfitting all staff with push-to-talk (PTT) two-way radios. These radios can provide solutions to just about every challenge that staff members face at youth camps.
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When you think of job site communication, what do you picture? Emails, zoom calls, slack messages, text messages, phone calls, ham radio, two-way radios… the list goes on.
The kind of communication you use often depends on where you work and what job you’re performing. An indispensable form of communication that’s expanding to new industries and employees is push-to-talk (PTT) two-way radios. Traditionally used at construction job sites, these handy communication devices can now be found just about anywhere, improving job site communication across industries.
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Whether you’ve got a friend who’s served in the military, or you’ve seen war movies or TV shows, you’ve probably heard of military phonetic phrases before. For example, an actor says “Oscar Mike” over the radio to a fellow soldier as they run to meet them.
Military phonetic phrases are based on the military phonetic alphabet, which assigns a word to each letter. Using the previous example, ‘Oscar’ for ‘O’ and ‘Mike’ for ‘M’ is an abbreviation of “On the move”. (Side note, if you are looking for really comfortable t-shirts, check this org out – with a mission, Oscar Mike Apparel)
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One of the most challenging things about running a business is building to scale. While growing your business usually means more revenue, it also means dealing with higher costs and additional factors you didn’t have to deal with at a smaller scale.
When thinking about scaling up any business, one consideration is always communication. If you run a business with just a few people who are all working side by side, communication is a no-brainer. But once you have several teams at different job sites or drivers and dispatchers or field workers and office workers, etc., communication gets a whole lot more difficult.
This is where scalable Peak push-to-talk (PTT) two-way radios come into play.
When you use a radio, most of the time you’re probably not actively using it. The 5-5-90% cycle in the radio communications industry refers to this phenomenon. It means that 5% of the time you’re transmitting, 5% you’re receiving, and 90% you’re on standby.
Therefore, when you measure the battery capacity of a radio, you need to consider battery standby — your radio needs to last a long time even when it’s not transmitting or receiving.
Below, we’ll go over everything you need to know about battery standby time on push-to-talk (PTT) two-way radios.
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Property management involves juggling a million things at once — as any property manager knows it’s no easy job. Because of the high expectations and difficult work, it’s a profession that has extremely high turnover and burnout rates. The National Apartment Association reported that turnover at property management companies reached 33% in 2022.
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Amphitheaters have been used for thousands of years to host entertainment. Today, they’re still used for similar purposes (minus the gladiators): to allow large gatherings of people to watch entertainment in the form of sporting events, theater performances, or musical performances.
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Despite recent pushes to transition to sustainable and renewable sources of energy, oil remains a major part of the energy industry, and it will be many years before society will drastically reduce our reliance on this industry. As of today, oil still powers so much of our world.
However, the fact that oil isn’t going anywhere anytime soon doesn’t mean the oil industry hasn’t taken a hit and can sit back and rake in profits without due diligence. Even though there is big money in oil, oil refineries have goals to meet, many of which aren’t easy and require maximum efficiency at the facility.
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Spring brings a lot of things to mind for people — spring rains, spring flowers, spring cleaning, warm weather, and the approach of summer. For public works and public infrastructure, spring brings to mind new (or ongoing) highway projects work.
With the weather more manageable and snow and ice out of the way, public works and highway maintenance workers can comfortably and safely resume their projects. This spring, as you consider how to improve highway projects work, and how your employees go about their work, consider adding push-to-talk two-way (PTT) radios to your employees’ arsenal.
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