Category: Evacuations

Having procedures in place for workplace evacuations is part of what employers should do to keep their employees safe in case of emergencies. “Accounting for all employees after an emergency evacuation has been completed” is one of the Department of Labor’s minimum requirements for an emergency action plan (EAP). However, the manner in which an employer should perform ..

Telaeris was recently approached by a company inquiring about our XPressEntry (XPE) emergency mustering system. One of the first questions they asked was: "How long does it take to get a current list of onsite employees after the emergency starts?" I had to stop for a moment and make sure I heard the question appropriately. My [...]

Automation - it's what modern-day technology is all about! Track Construction Time Recently, Telaeris was asked to simplify employee timekeeping for a construction yard using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The company had 3000 employees and wanted to know both who was on the job site and when they came and left. Instead of hand-punched [...]

The world of being a Telaeris intern can be both wonderful and terrifying. Wonderful in that you are given the opportunity to gain industry experience and insight, yet terrifying in that you are constantly challenged by projects where you have no idea where to start. It is in these moments of uncertainty and fear that you [...]

Recently, a customer deploying one of our emergency evacuation systems asked us the following question: “What is the best way to store our handhelds and tablets to maximize their battery life?” We wish we could have given this customer a simple answer, but unfortunately, there are many considerations which must be taken into account. As […]

What is the Cost of Safety? People don’t like to talk about it, but there are costs to safety. The standard reply to satisfy legal is: “We comply with all regulations to keep our people safe” There are always tradeoffs when it comes to safety. If you look at most evacuation drills that take place, […]

Why do we practice Fire Drills? The answer is the same as it would be for anything else. We practice to improve. I remember talking with an old teammate of mine, Bryan, about an amazing between-the-legs shot Andre Agassi made in a tennis match. Top players do the basics over and over until the muscle […]

As children, most of us went through the experience of fire drills at school. They were often a special treat because it meant we got to be somewhere other than our classroom. If we were lucky, it gave us more time to cram for a test. Because real emergencies are so rare, few people take […]

There are lots of hidden costs to doing business, but one you may not think about is the cost of having your employees wait. Waiting for slow computers to boot up, waiting on slow business processes, or what I am going to focus on in this week’s blog – waiting in lines. Waiting in lines […]