Would anyone be kind enough to share how they effectively communicate their fire evacuation plans?

We are a large site (over 900 employees) with several separate buildings, so our 'evacuation in the event of a fire alarm' plans are quite complex.  In addition, we have several important pieces of information to communicate which relate to the plan and have also included fire extinguisher awareness in this document in the past.  I'm now reviewing this and its 7 pages long!  We normally issue to all employees on a read and understand basis, they sign a confirmation form and have to complete a small assessment to test their knowledge but i'd really like a more interesting/punch format.  We don't have the budget this year for a bespoke video (we have had one of these previously and find they can date too quickly and are expensive if you need to make any changes)

Does anyone have any new or exciting methods of communicating this training in their companies that they would like to share? Thanks

Our large head office has the capacity of 5000 persons, so the evacuation plan is complex (albeit, that it is one building and not multiple buildings like the OP's problem)

However, the emergency plan was huge and perhaps 20 pages  long. I made a decison early on that nobody was reading it and something had to change. After a review it was clear that the emergency plan arrangements were too complex, therefore the document recording it was too long in order to capture it all.

One major issue was the assumption that all staff needed to know all the details of what everyone was doing. I asked the question, why the hell does a Finance Manager on the 10th floor need to know what the Security Officers procedures are? Why do the Directors need to read what the first aiders do?

So I broke the BIG plan down to one bullet point summary list for all staff - on a single sheet of A4. These were given to all staff and included in induction packs. On the firms intranet, we broke the Emergency Plan into sections with an index and separated the individual section plans (first aiders, security staff) publishing around 8 different sub plans under the generic master plan.

The bullet point list was converted into a Fire Action Notice and, in addition to installing next to manual fire alarm call points, we put them in tea points - and my favourite - at eye level inside toilet cubicle doors (who doesnt like to read just prior to finishing the paperwork!!!?)

So maybe break the EP down to bite size chunks. Only you will know how to divide it. Maybe a generic plan with supplementary plans for the bigger buildings on site. And unless there are bona fida risk based reasons for having wildly different plans in each building, try to use a uniform evac strategy for all . That makes the comm ten times easier too

Good luck