 Let's see what's on thinking man's mind today. Your hat says safety on it. What does that mean? That's a great question. Come on in and let's talk about it. But first, I want to wish Door Hardware Nerds a big, happy birthday. It's their two-year anniversary, two-year birthday, and it's been a wonderful time being able to share Code Corner with you every third Wednesday of each month. To get to the point of the question, why do we have codes and standards in the first place, and what is safe purity? Well, one of the items when it comes to codes and standards is to provide a minimum requirements for safeguarding life, health, public welfare, and property protection. And the main threat that the building codes work against is fire, if there's a fire situation. But owners do care about security, not just for theft of items, but security of the people that they're trying to protect. And so we have to walk that fine balance between life safety requirements as well as security requirements, especially now that we have more and more active shooters at schools and other locations and things like that. So we can't throw out 100 plus years of building codes just as reactionary for what's going on in the country nowadays. So life safety is important. Security is important. I've seen schools that barricade using two by fours or they put chains on. That is not safe purity. Safe purity is that balance between life safety and security where you still provide free egress or maybe one additional operation as long as first responders can still get in. Or just being able to provide electrified hardware for access control that can keep track of where people are in a building, things like that. We still have free egress. We still have a way to get out if there is an issue, but we have the security that's needed for the building. For more information and continuing education opportunities, please visit Asa Abloy Academy by clicking in the link in the comments below. You can also please click like and subscribe to this channel. You can follow me on Twitter at art consultant and or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates. And if you have a code question, feel free to email me kathryn.flower at asaabloy.com. Thanks for joining me in the code corner today. My name is Katie Flower, and my goal is to help you achieve safe purity in the built environment.