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Before we built this site out to HPR Ries explains the location had a standard water supply and a sprinkler system at the ceil ing level Even though they did have some level of protection they had not passed our rigorous fire testing we strongly recom mended that they upgrade their sprinkler system We knew that would work Commitment This was not your average sprinkler upgrade with all the buildings on its campus and the local regulations to work through so a finan cial commitment was involved But Leviton according to Ries is one of those clients that understood the importance of address ing risk improvement recommendations We had to do something to improve their risk quality upgrading the sprinkler system would improve that exponentially A lot of times clients are hesitant to pursue sprinkler with Leviton It is one of the most impor tant locations by many matrices As CFO Baydarian identified Dong guan as a mission critical plant It produces GFCIs which are a safety device and it s a very important product for the company I knew it was an important location Lee Raynor the company s director of risk management also knew it and in 2010 entered into discussions with com pany executives about the site s outstand ing safety recommendations FM Global Account Manager Aimee Sienkiewicz and Account Engineer Ries assisted Raynor with loss data for his presentation including comparisons between protected and unpro tected facilities and the differences between highly protected risk HPR locations and non highly protected ones We were able to offer compelling information that demon strated the value of investing in this type of risk improvement Sienkiewicz says Lee did a great job with his presentation and made the business case for risk improvement to reinforce the sprinkler protection for this location This was exactly what we needed going into what we knew would be a com plex and challenging project Raynor downplays his success I really just pointed out that there were a lot of issues we needed to take seriously he says and the fact that the company was starting to realign its manufacturing was resulting in the plant becoming more critical Steve Pierce the company s environ mental health and safety consultant also had improvements at the Dongguan site on his radar Leviton has always taken the stance that we provide the most stringent protec tion or requirements regardless of where the facility is Whatever organization defined the best protection standards that was what we wanted Given the situation Leviton was willing to commit funds to improving Dongguan s risk profile to highly protected risk HPR standards or FM Global s own demarcation for risk quality But before that happened there were many hurdles to overcome We re going to work very closely with FM Global on other projects that we have There are sev eral under consideration or are about to begin and FM Global will be involved with those as a partner with us Lee Raynor Director of Risk Management Leviton projects in China because management there thinks loss prevention is a Western philoso phy But really fire doesn t know whether you re in the United States or China Leviton gets that The decision to undertake the project was a no brainer agrees Baydarian We don t like to use that word around here but that s what it was It just revolved around cost and not spending too much money but spending enough to make the plant safe Prior to installing the sprinkler upgrade Pierce knew the site as well as anyone There s several stand alone buildings he says There are four basic high rises that are situated over a single floor The single floor houses the cafeteria and the kitchen which means you have a potential exposure from the kitchen and anyone living above it Part of the project that was identified was that the kitchen did not have any automatic ISSUE 3 2014 Reason 47