Mustering Articles

When Your Accountability System Can't Keep Up With Your Site Most accountability gaps at industrial sites are discovered the hard way. A site runs a drill. The muster takes longer than anyone expected. Someone flags the problem. A...

When Accountability Data Can't Be Trusted On a high-hazard site, one question matters more than any other during an incident: who's inside the unit right now? Too often, the sign-in sheet can't answer it.Here's how that plays out for the...

This past week, I had conversations at three different plants about the dangers of using the wrong tool for mustering. All three are trying to use their access control systems for emergency accountability. Different sites. Different...

Here's a scenario playing out right now at a mid-size chemical plant. Chances are, a version of it is playing out at yours too. The emergency response leader has done his homework. He's seen AllClear work at a larger sister site. He knows...

The Mustering Gaps Kim Didn't Expect Kim is excited about her new role as emergency response leader. However, she promptly discovered several gaps in the mustering process that were caused by the plant's use of the physical access control...

A few weeks ago, I told the story of a site working to overcome internal challenges to getting AllClear approved and deployed. The response from our viewers and the industry was absolutely fantastic. One person suggested that the Real...

The Problem With Counting Heads Instead of Names This is Frank. Frank is an emergency response leader at a petrochemical plant. He's responsible for the safety of a large population across a vast facility filled with hazardous materials...