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What do the majority of emergency services prefer when it comes to important information sharing?
CDs?
Thumb Drives?
attachments?
3-Ring binders?
Or…
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What do the majority of emergency services prefer when it comes to important school information sharing?
CDs?
Thumb Drives?
attachments?
3-Ring binders?
Or… ?
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4. Information Sharing Network Old-School Technology
A Likely Scenario
The Life-Counts®
Information Sharing Network
versus
Old-School Technology
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5. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:30
New procedures in the response plan at the Local processing plant have been changed. T
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6. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:30
The 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
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7. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:32
With 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 T
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8. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:33
The EHS Coordinator logs in to
Life-Counts®
#1 deletes the old PDF file
#2 uploads the revised PDF file
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9. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:35
And logs out
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Monday 08:35
ALL Emergency Services, essential company employees and their emergency response team can view the changes
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11. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:35
Total elapsed time from login - to logout with Life-Counts®?
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12. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday 08:35
Less than 5 Minutes!
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13. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
The 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
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14. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
Another 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.
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and a third request is that they be sent via 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
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Tuesday
The EHS Coordinator begins looking
for 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.
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Tuesday
But does not have the time so instructs an assistant to locate thumb drives.
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Tuesday
And instructs the assistant to also
re-print their newly revised
Emergency Response Plan.
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Tuesday
Thumb drives must be purchased.
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Tuesday
Later in the day, the thumb drives are ready to have revised files added.
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Tuesday
Important phone call (Must take it!)
This duplication task will have to wait.
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Wednesday
The 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.
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Wednesday
The EHS Coordinator must return several important calls before this added task can be done.
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Wednesday
But finally gets on the PC and copies the file onto each of the thumb drives.
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Wednesday
The EHS Coordinator or the assistant must now label each thumb drive with Company name, contents and revision date.
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26. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Wednesday
The EHS Coordinator knows these changes are important to everyone and considers running them over to the other side of the county
to deliver them…
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Wednesday
But suddenly gets very busy and decides there is no time to run them over…
so the assistant is asked to mail them.
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28. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Wednesday
The assistant gets distracted but finally prepares the packages, places the thumb drives in a small box and the printed plans into an envelope.
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Wednesday
Packages weighed and postage added
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Wednesday
They are ready for the afternoon mail pickup…
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Wednesday
But the mail has already gone out.
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Wednesday
That’s ok…they’ll go out the very first thing in the morning and get there by Saturday.
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Thursday
The next day…the packages are picked up.
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Saturday
Post office hours have been cut short…
there is no Saturday delivery.
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35. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday (The following week)
The EHS Coordinator begins a new week and suddenly realizes that the 3rd request to send updated files via
was not done.
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Monday (The following week)
The EHS Coordinator logs into the account, selects that individual’s name and attaches the PDF file with the new changes.
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37. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Monday
Meanwhile..
the mailed packages arrive at their destinations,
but have not been opened immediately…
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38. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
A day passes
and the packages are finally opened.
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39. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
The thumb drives must now get to those who must have them.
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Tuesday
The new plans must replace the old plans in the 3-ring binders on the shelf.
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41. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
Phone calls are made to all end-users
that new thumb drives with plan revisions
have just arrived and they must replace the old thumb drives.
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42. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Thursday
With several emergency calls and
two days later, the First Responders have now received this notification and have picked up the new thumb drives.
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43. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Thursday
There 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.
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Tuesday (The next week)
After several days, and many steps,
All thumb drives are in each vehicle
with the revised information in place.
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Tuesday (The next week)
The out-dated thumb drives must now be; returned, Information erased,
or destroyed.
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Tuesday (The next week)
The out-dated paper plans are shredded.
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47. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
The new information is now in the hands of the remaining emergency services.
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48. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Tuesday
Except the file that was sent as an ...
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was inadvertently deleted.
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50. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Wednesday
The next day, the lead foreman is transferred and is no longer the Incident Commander.
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51. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Thursday
The next day the new site plans arrive from engineering showing an important change to the facility’s floor plan layout.
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52. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Friday
And a new gas detection system has been installed.
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53. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
The EHS Coordinator gets this information and quickly makes these important changes
Into the Life-Counts® network.
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54. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
Emergency services have all new updates
immediately available in their own
Life-Counts® network;
Offices, vehicles and mobile devices.
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55. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
The EHS Coordinator and staff
are ready to get back to work.
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56. CONFIDENTIAL - US Life Safety, Inc. 2015
Or are they?
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57. “Old information is dangerous!”
Steve Burchesky
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58. Your Life-Counts® Representative Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
Steve Burchesky
Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
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