1. Establish quantifiable expectations/goals for drills |
ObservationAt a minimum, once a year an evacuation/emergency drill is performed as evidenced by the City of Windsor EmergencyResponse Manuals. It was noted that no quantifiable expectations/goals are established to benchmark the results of these drills. |
ConsiderationManagement should consider developing clearly defined measures for the drills. This may benefit management in directing its efforts in improving evaluation times by implementing measures like the PA system etc. These measures may be extended to other security measures, such as the number of times trespass policy was applied etc. Examples of measures could include but are not limited to:
- number of reported cases where staff could not hear the alarm or were not reachable by radio or by designated informer;
- number of minutes building evacuated/locked down (for comparison against sites with similar characteristics);
- number of days between drill and communication of lessons learned;
- number of near miss events originating around or on city properties; and
- average number of occupants for each marshaling areas.
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