Identification of people during evacuation

A workplace evacuation is an emergency situation resulting from a threat to the health and life of employees. A large role in ensuring an adequate level of safety is played by the business profile of a given company. In some the risk is negligible, in others it is highly likely. However, every employer must prepare scenarios for such events. This is a very responsible task, as people’s safety and lives will depend on it. It is necessary to designate exits and evacuation routes, assembly points, coordinators overseeing the entire process, and conduct evacuation drills.

When conducting such drills, the most common question is, is everyone safe yet? This question causes difficulties for many people. So how can we change this and improve employee identification during evacuations?

RFID technology, iBeacon and modern software as part of Industry 4.0 help solve this problem. RFID solutions only give access to information about what region a person has been in, and it is a passive technology. A system based on iBeacon is an active technology that allows for much broader application and provides an accurate representation of a person’s location.

Effective worker identification is not only used during evacuation. In laboratories, workers are scattered in mazes of rooms and exposed to danger. There are cases of fainting spells, in which identification and monitoring of worker movement comes to the rescue. A person who remains motionless for an extended period of time may receive a notification to perform a certain activity. If he or she still shows no activity, the notification will reach the supervisor, who will verify the notification received. There are many more such examples.

Employee identification can also be used to alert employees to the dangers of entering an area. Informing them of an approaching forklift. This will help, for example, in collecting information about the number of visitors or employees of external companies.

As for task completion, we can accurately determine the number of people and time spent on a particular project. The system also determines how employees move around, typifying high-traffic areas.

Wanting to improve employee identification, we can arm ourselves with a working tool that will help us in many aspects of our business.