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 in large pipes and vessels. When something goes wrong, he has to make sure that everyone is in a safe place.
As a way to determine if everyone is safe, Frank sets up safe shelters where coordinators count heads and radio their head count into an Emergency Operations Center, where he and his team count up the people and check that number against the number of people they believe are on site.
Unfortunately, this method is slow and just deals with numbers, not names. That leaves Frank wondering: who are the missing people, and where are they? Frank needs information to move quickly enough to save lives.
How AllClear Turns Access Control Data Into Real-Time Accountability
Enter AllClear, a new solution from inFRONT that enables emergency response leaders to maintain awareness of who is on site and then assemble them quickly and easily in an emergency.
AllClear plugs into and listens to your access control system, maintaining a constant awareness of who is on site and where they last used their badge. When an incident occurs, AllClear springs into action, lighting up emergency assembly stations where employees use their badge to alert Frank that they are safe and accounted for.
As individuals badge in at the emergency assembly stations, Frank watches the progress across the facility and, within minutes, is able to see precisely who is safe, who is unaccounted for, and their last known location. Empowered with this information, Frank can make life-saving decisions in minutes instead of hours.
AllClear provides reports and dashboards that enable Frank to monitor the incident and perform analysis after it’s over. He can use this data to improve the emergency assembly process in the future and reduce the risk to his people.
Minutes, Not Hours: The Results
AllClear has helped several of the largest petrochemical facilities in the world reduce the length of their emergency assembly process from hours to just minutes, while improving the accuracy and completeness of their data.
Give us a call, and we’ll help make your plant safer too.
This isn’t a hypothetical improvement. The largest refinery in North America regularly uses AllClear to account for roughly 1,500 people in about 11 minutes, replacing radio-based headcounts with credential-based, real-time accountability.