By ISSA and R.V. Baugus More than 100 new facilities have achieved the gold standard for prepared facilities: GBAC STAR facility accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council; (GBAC), a Division of ISSA. A number of IAVM member venues are new to the list, which are now recogn

By R.V. Baugus IAVM President and CEO Brad Mayne, CVE, took part in a panel at the Events Industry Council’s EIC Advance virtual event that ran from November 18-20. The focus was on advocacy and advancing the event industry, which will be a major catalyst to global economic reco

By R.V. Baugus Hear about the big news this week? Gotcha! No, we are not talking about the presidential election, although Lord knows it has been battered and filleted every which way since Tuesday. Instead, we are talking about something that is so under the radar it could not be loc

By ISSA and R.V. Baugus The Global Biorisk Advisory CouncilTM (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, has announced that 26 new facilities have successfully completed accreditation through the GBAC STAR™ Facility Accreditation Program, including three IAVM member venues. The latest round i

By R.V. Baugus We all like tidy lists full of numbers that we can easily reference and even work into our brains for fast recall. During his VenueConnect presentation on “The 10 P’s of Venue Safety and Security,” Dan Mathis Jr., CPP, Chief of Safety and Security for