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Vendor Services Approval Policy

On occasion, an ever so helpful vendor may approach you to discuss the opportunity to provide you with services such as: Dryer vent cleaning Chimney cleaning Window cleaning Preventative pest treatments Ventilation enhancements Miscellaneous contract services Common area air freshener service Room air fresheners Common area floor mat service Vehicle towing services Storm drain servicing

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announcements, human resources, safety, Training

Ladder Safety / Safety Meeting Training Form

Property Managers:  Find attached the April training handout, Ladder Safety as well as a Safety Training Form (Sign-In Sheet).   Please present this in your April monthly meeting.  For additional training resources, see Grace Hill’s “Ladder Safety 1: Best Practices”.  It is a 30-minute training that you can assign to your staff.  The Grace Hill training will

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announcements, maintenance, seasonal reminders

Spring Clean Up Begins Today!

Hello Site Management Staff, Company- wide resident “Spring Clean-Up” kicks off today! Each community will participate by providing drop boxes for residents to use if they’d like to clean up their homes or to dispose of large items that would ordinarily not be allowed in the dumpster areas. Drop boxes should remain in place until at least

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announcements, maintenance

Maintenance Uniform Standards & Policy

Winter officially ended last week, which means spring uniforms will soon be shipping to each of your properties. With this in mind, we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of our uniform policy. Cambridge provides uniforms to maintenance staff twice per year, once in the spring that consists of short sleeved

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announcements, human resources, safety, Training, wellness

March Safety Training

Property Managers:  Find attached the March training handout, “Back Injury Prevention”  as well as a Training Sign-In Sheet.   Please present this in your March monthly meeting.  For additional training resources, see Grace Hill’s “Safety Series: Preventing Back Injury”.  It is a 30-minute training that you can assign to your staff.  The Grace Hill training will

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announcements, human resources, maintenance, operations, safety, seasonal reminders, Training, wellness

Spring Into Action 2018

Hello Managers, Please see the Spring Into Action 2018 packet for information on community clean up dates, the spring maintenance checklist, flag and uniform ordering, safety and wellness updates and much more! If you have specific questions regarding the your property’s community clean up, please contact your supervisor. Happy Spring Everyone!

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announcements, fair housing, Training

Grace Hill Training

We wish to recognized those who remain diligent with Grace Hill Training objectives, and to communicate for everyone the parameters for this form of continuing education. http://gracehill.com/ Recall that the priority training assignments include: For All New Hires – Within 2 Days of Hire Fair Housing or Fair Housing for Maintenance Sexual Harassment or Sexual

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Calendars

Have you been using your calendars effectively? We’d like to remind everyone about the calendar available on the eExchange with the many interactive links to training material.  https://cresapts.com/eexchange/calendar/  The calendar events give step by step training for your recurring tasks. See something that’s missing or have suggestions?  Please let us know!  We’d like to make the calendar

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announcements, Training

Recording Hours Worked for Symposium Attendees

Site managers – If you or any other staff members from your property attended symposium last week, please ensure that time records are accurate for the hours spent attending training. As a general guideline, All hours spent in training, including meals where training materials are being presented, would be considered hours worked. Time spent at

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announcements, maintenance, safety, seasonal reminders

Cold Weather Preparedness

Hello Managers, As we’ve been experiencing some cold weather in many of the areas in which we have properties, it’s time to take a few minutes to review our policies and practices for cold weather preparedness. As with so many things in life, and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of medicine. Or is that

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maintenance, safety, seasonal reminders

Power Outages and Black Outs

In the event of cold weather power outages or black outs, employees can be prepared by doing the following:  Have a phone which doesn’t require electricity to operate.  Post the emergency number for your electric utility so it’s handy in case you need to call.  Notify the Site Employee Resource Center if your power is

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