High Rise Accountability - A Cool Way To Document Who's Where and What They Are Doing...

Where I work, we don't have many highrise structures but still train for the ones that we do. One of our guys came from LAFD and shared this system for tracking and documenting who's where and what they are doing. Do you use a similar system? Hope you find this a helpful way to track things.

As always, stay safe and think safety!

Mike Schlags, Fire Captain
Santa Barbara, CA

Needed Tools for Simplified Facility Entrance Point Accountability Location:

1 - metal door to be used as the "white board"
2 - WD40
3 - Clean Red Rag
4 - Grease Pencil
5 - Passport Accountability Board with Tags

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Permalink Reply by Justin Buck on October 26, 2008 at 12:17am

wow i would never thought of this. that cool

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on October 26, 2008 at 12:21am

cool, glad it's going to be used... and it's simple to teach, I didn't even have to put much text to describe what it is that I am proposing... It just makes sense... Firefighter proof... : ) TCSS, MS

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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on October 27, 2008 at 2:37pm

That is a phenomenal idea! thank you

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Permalink Reply by C.T. Drake on October 27, 2008 at 10:14pm

This is outstanding! Our three largest highrises have alot of glass in the lobbies. This system would work well on the glass next to the doorway, keeping it clear.

Thanks for passing this on.

Chris

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Permalink Reply by T.J. on October 27, 2008 at 10:16pm

Awesome Mike, we use the boards but this is a great idea, I'm going to pass this on for sure:)

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Permalink Reply by BillySFCVFD on October 27, 2008 at 10:35pm

In my VFD area a two story house is considered a "high rise" but that is a great low tech high efficient idea. Git 'er done. Thanks SB Mike. TCSS

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on October 28, 2008 at 9:52am

where I work, there are not a ton of high rises... only at the University is where we find them. and when we do have to respond from rural america to the city, it sure is nice to have a way to keep track of folks, and in such a way that everyone coming in and out of the building knows to hand off their passport tags to the first in engineer who is typically tasked with handling the accountability system, which includes using a door or window as the white board... Git 'er done! SB Mike