Can anyone offer some advice? I am the safety advisor on a medium / large manufacturing site. The site consists of two main buildings, the buildings are apart ( 50m ) from each other and to all intense and purposes are not physically connected – the fire alarm / detection system is configured in such a way the only the effected building alarms and evacuates in the event of a call point or smoke / beam detector being activated. My issue is when people from building (a) venture to building (b) and Vis versa. If an associate is on the building (a) fire register and thier work takes them to building (b) if an evacuation takes place they will be unaware and will therefore not be present for roll call at their normal place of work. This is a particular issue with material handlers that regularly move raw materials and WIP between buildings (these people may even be between locations). Does anyone know of a system that will automatically track peoples movements around a site ( including lift truck operators) and that will give a instant acknowledgement of peoples whereabouts in an emergency situation. Manual sign in / out systems have proved clumbersome and unworkable. Any help appreciated Gary

We have a 'sweep' system- Fire Wardens sweep a given area to make sure that everyone is out. I've found that roll calls are almost impossible to manage in a large area where people are in and out. In my opinion there is no value in a roll call. We used to have a roll call system here- at a Directors insistence- it never worked. After 3 years of trying we now use the sweep system. Hope this helps. Andy

Unfortunately at the moment there is no indication in one building of an alarm being triggered in the other.

Gary I have heard in offshore installations sometimes using electronic chips , so when the employee goes from installation to the barge and vise versa they have exact number of people in each installation particularly in emergency situations... SHV

As has been said as weep system is what you need. The old fashioned fire assembly procedure is going out of fashion for just the reasons you mentioned. As for indicating that a building's fire alarm has gone off, it should not be too difficult to fit a flashing red beacon at the entrance.

Fire marshals to check each area is clear - and someone designated to stand outside each entrance to turn back anyone trying to enter. If you do this, you can do away with your roll call.