How many staff are we talking about? What size offices are we talking about?

What do you mean when you say traditional fire warden approaches to evaucation just aren't feasible. i would have thought that you would have a few employees that are permanently based in each of the office they would then be able to carry out the fire warden role. I would suggest a fire warden sweep system is used to ensure the building has been evacuated as it sounds as if a roll call system would not be effective.. possible there might be differences in the evacuation procedure between buildings but on hearing the fire alarm all employees should evacuate to the fire assembly point if an employee is unfamiliar then following other employees shouldn't be much of an issue. weekly fire alarm test should make employees familiar with the sound of the fire alarm as eventually they would be be in the premises when it is tested or look at covering it at induction. Unless there is some other reason we haven't identified that is causing an issue. phil

Kayte, you may have done this already but have you checked your fire risk assessment? For an organisation such as you have described I would be very surprised if they have not already undertaken fire risk assessments for each of their offices. The emergency plan should be part of that. No point in trying to rewrite something that has already been done. If by chance they have not yet managed to get round to fulfilling their legal obligations then I think the suggestions given above would seem to be appropriate to me.