Posted By Shaun Deely Try as I might I cannot pinpoint where, in any legislation, it identifies that a roll call MUST be taken following an evacuation. Can anyone help?

Posted By Laurie Shaun I must agree with Ziggy. Roll calls are simply not practical except in very rigidly controlled situations - labs, explosives areas, mine etc. To give even a simple example - the assembly area for the part of the building where I go to the toilet is remote from the assembly area for the floor my office is on. Even if I, with a vested interest, remember to go and report to my "office" assembly point (and to be honest I never do - I am far more interested in monitoring the evacuation and getting to the reported scene), there is no guarantee that everyone else would, and if only one person is reported as missing when they are not, firefighters' lives will be put at risk. Use of searchers/sweepers/wardens is a far more practical solution - it is proactive and positive Laurie

Posted By Zyggy Turek Bob, A valid point. However, this is addressed in the training & the instruction is that if the fire is in one of their designated areas then they merely evacuate to the Assembly Point & inform the Fire Brigade who will take over. It is stressed more than once that nobody puts themselves in any danger. In my experience, roll calls are no use for the majority of my buildings which are open to the public & have a "floating population",as I said before, it's horses for courses.

Posted By Shaun Deely Many thanks to all of you for your responses. Thanx Paul for all the info, invaluable stuff :)