Emergency Action & Fire Prevention Plan

In the previous blog, I provided a link to our poster version of an Emergency Action & Fire Prevention Plan which is especially appropriate for use on construction sites and small fixed businesses.  I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight its special feature – the second line that starts with “here is how to find this site….”

I’m a volunteer member of a rural rescue squad and I have lots of horror stories concerning how my unit has driven all around the countryside, trying to find our patient.  Enhanced 911 systems can’t help locate the emergency caller who is using a cell phone while standing on the side of an unidentified road or in the middle of a site being cleared for construction or in other scenarios where a land-line phone is not available.

How do you tell the 911 operator where you are?  Even when using a land-line phone during an emergency, it is very helpful to have posted by the phone a neatly written and well-thought-out “script” to read from.  People panic during emergencies – give them as many tools as possible to make the job of proper response as easy as possible.

(By the way, thanks go to one of our clients – Taylor and Parrish, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia.  I believe it was Superintendent Roy who improved our poster by adding the 911 script.)