The road to building safety has been beset by a series of terrorist bumps in recent years, but fortunately new, scientifically engineered practices and materials are emerging to pave the way toward reliable workplace security.
It may come as a surprise that the catalyst for the nation’s recent prioritizing of building safety was not the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but rather the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. That rather singular incident of domestic terrorism sparked a widespread change in the way the federal government analyzes building security safety measures.