July 2020

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Boosting Employee Engagement

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We were recently featured on the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center’s website in a case study under the headline: “Total Door Systems: Boosting Employee Engagement to Become a World-Class Leader.”

It talks about how, after completing employee surveys, one-on-one and focus group interviews, we were able to create an engagement plan. This resulted in a restructuring of our organizational chart to promote a new Plant Manager and give Area Experts more departmental accountability and influence.

The plan also involved setting up a cross-functional Employee Engagement Team to make recommendations – including weekly meetings with the office team, monthly one-on-one meetings between our COO, Jeanne Kitchen, and team members and daily meetings between the Plant Manager and Area Experts.

Within a year after the implementation of our Employee Engagement Plan, turnover has decreased 10% and levels of engagement increased from 47.6% reporting moderate to high engagement to 96.9%! To read the whole case study, click the button below.

Upcoming Webinar & Training Sessions

Jack Robbins Webinar

On July 23, 2 p.m. EDT, our own Jack Robbins will be conducting a webinar “Smoke Containment Strategies for Elevator Hoistways and Lobbies” as part of AEC Daily’s Continuing Education series. We invite you to attend and to invite anyone you know who might be interested.

Here is the webinar description: The spread of smoke in mid- and high-rise building fires is recognized as a major threat to the safety of the building occupants and responding fire personnel and the effectiveness of firefighting operations. This course explains how smoke migrates in a multi-story building fire and discusses how building codes have evolved to address this danger and why they mandate smoke containment in specific areas of a structure.

Product applications and assemblies designed to meet building code requirements and limit vertical smoke migration via elevator hoistways and lobbies are examined.

There is a combination sales training and installation class coming up the end of this month, July 28 – 30. Also, our next installation seminars will be Aug. 24 & 25, and Aug. 31 & Sept. 1. To accommodate safe physical distancing, the installment classes are now broken into two sessions of six people each.

Know Your Code 3006.2.1

Know Your Code: 3006.2.1

In conjunction with the launch of the new SafeFrame integrated system, we have created a new Know Your Code one sheet for 2018 IBC 3006.2.1. This code covers the need to protect the opening between the elevator shaft and a fire resistance-rated corridor with a method that meets both fire protection and smoke containment.

You can find it on our website, in the Know Your Code section or download it below.

Introducing Total Door Systems SafeFrame

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Total Door Systems SafeFrame™ provides a complete integrated smoke containment system that exceeds the testing and rating requirements for elevator hoistways and and eliminates the need for elevator lobbies. Streamlined in design, SafeFrame eliminates the need for frame construction and is perfectly matched to the elevator door to create a complete door and frame system.

There is no special wall construction or building of lobbies needed. We ship the SafeFrame with the door, so it arrives as one complete system, all in one delivery. This minimizes trips for installation and job site surveys.

The idea for our SafeFrame product grew out of frustrations installers told us about during some of our installation classes. They told us how it is a difficult application to build the wall and install the frame that goes with the door. They wanted to know what we could do to allow them to install a complete system, eliminating as much labor coordination and headache as possible.

We put our engineers and designers to work on a solution. That is how the SafeFrame fully integrated system with our doors came into being. It gives us a product that solves a problem in the industry, eliminating the need for constructing a wall. All they have to do is surface mount the frame right into the wall and install the door. The entire system has already been tested and the label allows for easy field verification of code compliance.

Read our SafeFrame one sheet. You can find the SafeFrame one sheet in the marketing materials folder of the Distributor portal.

Contact

Total Door Systems 6145 Delfield Dr, Waterford, Michigan 48329
Ph: (800) 852-6660 | Fax: (248) 623-6866 |customerrelations@totaldoor.com

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