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Natural disasters can disrupt business operations and endanger critical assets, including documents, files, collections, archives, artifacts, and collectibles. Fires, floods, and other emergencies pose significant risks, threatening to destroy irreplaceable items vital to your organization’s continuity and success. To safeguard these resources, institutions and businesses must implement a comprehensive disaster preparedness and recovery plan.

You can’t think about a Texas summer without thinking about extreme heat. Across the Lone Star State, temperatures are ranging from the mid-80s to more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. While some have the luxury of being able to wait out these soaring temperatures in a cool, insulated building (or maybe even a swimming pool), general contractors and construction crews have project deadlines to meet. The extreme conditions they are facing not only pose challenges to completing projects on time, but can also pose a risk for heat-related illnesses. Polygon is working with general contractors in Texas and across the US to make construction sites safer and create ambient conditions that prevent delays and protect finishes.

If you live in the southeast US, chances are that you enjoyed some beautiful sunsets in the last week of June. Why? A dust cloud from the Saharan Desert traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and hit the US, making for hazy skies during the day and dramatic colors at dawn. A second wave is hitting the country now. While your eyes might enjoy the sunsets, your lungs might not have the same appreciation for these dust particles in the air, and neither does your HVAC system. In situations like this, it’s important that you take extra steps to protect your HVAC system and the people breathing the conditioned air from it.

There are workspaces across multiple industries in which the control of humidity and temperature of that workspace is actually vital. Hospital operating rooms are at the top of that list. When surgeons, nurses, and other hospital staff are working to treat their patients, potentially in order to save their lives, the environment inside of the operating room has to meet certain standards. This is why it’s essential that hospital administrators have a plan in place for when the main hospital HVAC system experiences any problems.

In 2013, The Washington Post covered the story of a federal poultry inspector in New York who died 5 years into his job when his lungs bled out. This tragic story caught the attention of federal investigators and the poultry industry, forcing them to look at the dangers that come with using toxic chemicals in order to remove contaminants from the processing line. Since then, the demand for chicken and turkey in the United States has only increased, leading to processing plants depending more heavily on these dangerous chemicals. While these chemicals do keep the food products safe, they must also be monitored in order to protect the people working to put food on our tables.