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CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015

What do the majority of emergency services prefer when it comes to important information sharing?• CDs?• Thumb Drives?• E-Mail attachments?• 3-Ring binders?• Or…


What do the majority of emergency services prefer when it comes to important school information sharing?• CDs?• Thumb Drives?• E-Mail attachments?• 3-Ring binders? • Or…


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A Likely Scenario

The Life-Counts® Information Sharing Network

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Old-School Technology


Monday 08:30New procedures in the response plan at the Local processing plant have been changed.

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LIFE-COUNTS® NETWORK Old Methods


Monday 08:30The EHS Coordinator must make an update to the written plan and re-distribute it to;• County EMA• Police• State Police• Fire• Company’s Incident Command Team



Monday 08:32With changes made to the text document, This revision file is now dated and saved as an Adobe PDF file. The hard drive will be automatically backed up

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Monday 08:33The EHS Coordinator logs in toLife-Counts® #1 deletes the old PDF file#2 uploads the revised PDF file


NOT AVAILABLEREADY FOR VIEWING


Monday 08:35And logs out


READY FOR VIEWING NOT AVAILABLE


Monday 08:35ALL Emergency Services, essential company employees and their emergency response team can view the changes




Monday 08:35Total elapsed time from login - to logout with Life-Counts®?




Monday 08:35

Less than 5 Minutes!




TuesdayThe next day, the EHS Coordinator remembers that the County Emergency Management Agency has asked that all updates be sent to their department on thumb drives for their PC’s,and emergency response vehicles…



* US Life Safety urges emergency services to permit Internet access to response vehicles


TuesdayAnother needs them for a 3-Ring binder…



*Files located on the Life-Counts® network can be printed by the viewer using the proper Adobe software.


Tuesdayand a third request is that they be sent via email attachments for their department’s own internal web site.



* US Life Safety can connect Life-Counts® to any Internet web site…even secure password protect sites


TuesdayThe EHS Coordinator begins lookingfor several thumb drives.



*Files located on the Life-Counts® network can be copied and saved to a user’s own file using the proper Adobe software.


TuesdayBut does not have the time so instructs an assistant to locate thumb drives.




TuesdayAnd instructs the assistant to alsore-print their newly revised Emergency Response Plan.




TuesdayThumb drives must be purchased.




TuesdayLater in the day, the thumb drives are ready to have revised files added.




TuesdayImportant phone call (Must take it!)

This duplication task will have to wait.




WednesdayThe next day, the EHS Coordinator spots the thumb drives on the desk and remembers the newly revised plan must now be saved to each of them.




WednesdayThe EHS Coordinator must return several important calls before this added task can be done.




WednesdayBut finally gets on the PC and copies the file onto each of the thumb drives.




WednesdayThe EHS Coordinator or the assistant must now label each thumb drive with Company name, contents and revision date.




WednesdayThe EHS Coordinator knows these changes are important to everyone and considers running them over to the other side of the county to deliver them…




WednesdayBut suddenly gets very busy and decides there is no time to run them over…

so the assistant is asked to mail them.




WednesdayThe assistant gets distracted but finally prepares the packages, places the thumb drives in a small box and the printed plans into an envelope.




WednesdayPackages weighed and postage added




WednesdayThey are ready for the afternoon mail pickup…




WednesdayBut the mail has already gone out.




WednesdayThat’s ok…they’ll go out the very first thing in the morning and get there by Saturday.




ThursdayThe next day…the packages are picked up.




SaturdayPost office hours have been cut short…there is no Saturday delivery.




Monday (The following week)The EHS Coordinator begins a new week and suddenly realizes that the 3rd request to send updated files via e-mail was not done.




Monday (The following week)The EHS Coordinator logs into the email account, selects that individual’s name and attaches the PDF file with the new changes.




MondayMeanwhile..the mailed packages arrive at their destinations, but have not been opened immediately…




TuesdayA day passesand the packages are finally opened.




TuesdayThe thumb drives must now get to those who must have them.




TuesdayThe new plans must replace the old plans in the 3-ring binders on the shelf.




TuesdayPhone calls are made to all end-usersthat new thumb drives with plan revisions have just arrived and they must replace the old thumb drives.




ThursdayWith several emergency calls andtwo days later, the First Responders have now received this notification and have picked up the new thumb drives.




ThursdayThere are many other high-risk facilities in the county.

All thumb drives in many state emergency vehicles are on key chains in the glove compartments.




Tuesday (The next week)After several days, and many steps, All thumb drives are in each vehicle with the revised information in place.




Tuesday (The next week)The out-dated thumb drives must now be; returned, Information erased,or destroyed.




Tuesday (The next week)The out-dated paper plans are shredded.




TuesdayThe new information is now in the hands of the remaining emergency services.


READY FOR VIEWING READY FOR VIEWING


Tuesday Except the file that was sent as an E-mail...




Tuesday was inadvertently deleted.




WednesdayThe next day, the lead foreman is transferred and is no longer the Incident Commander.




ThursdayThe next day the new site plans arrive from engineering showing an important change to the facility’s floor plan layout.




FridayAnd a new gas detection system has been installed.




Wednesday, Thursday & FridayThe EHS Coordinator gets this information and quickly makes these important changes Into the Life-Counts® network.




Wednesday, Thursday & FridayEmergency services have all new updates immediately available in their ownLife-Counts® network; Offices, vehicles and mobile devices.




Wednesday, Thursday & FridayThe EHS Coordinator and staff are ready to get back to work.




Or are they?





“Old information is dangerous!”Steve Burchesky

Your Life-Counts® Representative

Steve BurcheskyPittsburgh - Pennsylvania

[email protected]

©March 2015 - US Life Safety, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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2013 US Life Safety, Inc. Life-Counts®, Your Life-Counts® tutorials and all related written material is privileged information and shared only with our prospective clients and their employees with the understanding of strict confidentiality. It is illegal to share your password and/or or this proprietary information with any person or persons. Building emergency plans, floor plans and assessment/quizzes are exclusively written and/or approved for content and correctness by our Clients and submitted to the Producer, US Life Safety, Inc., for installation into Client's Life-Counts® service. The Producer, makes no representations or warranties with respect to the correctness and accuracy of information presented on Life-Counts® sites. The Producer will rely exclusively on the information provided by the Client in connection with their work on this project and the Client will review and approve the final contents of all material. The Producer does not hold himself out solely as an expert on the subject matter of plans and information submitted and will act solely at the direction and behest, and for the benefit of, the Client. Any advice, recommendations or instructions contained in Life-Counts®, such as plans, floor plans, scripts, photos and/or video are those of the Client and not those of the Producer. Questions that may be suggested by US Life Safety, Inc. for the assessment/quiz (testing phase) will have final approval by Client. The services offered by US Life Safety Inc. are to provide; a means of presenting these plans to employees/occupants of said buildings, online testing and a database service for management to track users. US Life Safety, Inc. will not sell, loan, or reveal Client privileged information either before, during or after contract signing or after cancellation of contracts. This includes any roster of user or associate names, phone numbers, e-mails/passwords, applicable ID’s and/or plans given to US Life Safety, Inc. for data base storage. 8/2012

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Documents

emergency response team

majority of emergency

thumb drives

tuesdaythe ehs coordinator

ehs coordinator logs

response plan

adobe pdf file

important information