Many companies have an informal method of checking attendance at a fire drill, such as calling names from a register of everyone who works in the entire company and ticking the responders off manually, or relying on department managers to do a quick head-count. 

 

These methods seem obvious and simple, but they have several disadvantages.

 

Firstly, a “call and respond” register runs the risk of missing out people who are stood at the very back, or who for another reason would have trouble hearing or shouting out. A quick head-count only works in small departments where everyone is known by name and sight, so it wouldn’t be effective in larger departments. 

 

Most importantly, both of these methods completely overlook visitors in the building. This may be customers, other business representatives who have come in for a meeting, or even less expected people such as contract cleaners or repairers called in to fix a specific mess. These people are very unlikely to be familiar with your fire alarm procedure, and may in fact be unfamiliar with the layout of the building to know how to get out. 

 

As you can see it is therefore vital to know everyone who is inside the building.

 

Our automated fire roll call feature is very simple and gives comprehensive coverage when linked to a good time and attendance system, access control system and visitor management system. 

 

When the fire alarm is triggered, our central WinTA.NET system automatically prompts two printers, which have been hooked into the system, to print a list of everyone who is clocked into the building.

 

This does require you to have a clocking in system. We can offer you either physical terminals, which can be operated with smart-cards or biometrics (fingerprints), or a web/mobile phone based Self Service Module (SSM) which can record clocking in and out with one click. Our access control system also enables you to programme certain doors to open immediately when a fire alarm goes off. 

 

For more information on our fast, efficient and accurate automated fire roll call system, please contact us