Workforce management | How integrated roll call systems improve workplace health and safety

In the event of a workplace emergency, managers need to be able to work quickly and methodically with all the relevant information immediately available from their roll call system, to ensure the safety of all employees. Workplace health and safety legislation continues to evolve, and businesses must update their processes to stay compliant.

Why then, should technology be any different? Managers must be able to know who is on or off site (and preferably where) at any given moment – something which is only possible with roll call systems that are integrated with time and attendance software. Read on as we explain how vital a modern roll call system is and the features that are most important in an emergency.

The urgency of a quick response

It goes without saying that speed and organisation of evacuation are vital to keeping everyone safe in the event of an emergency such as a fire. While the training of individual staff members is vital to this, so is the ability of managers to quickly account for which staff are on site, their whereabouts and whether they have reached an evacuation point.

When roll call systems are not digitised, or when they don’t link to real-time attendance tracking, the drawbacks are obvious. The list of present employees may not be verifiable if manual clocking methods are in operation, there is no way of identifying where individual staff members are at the time of an evacuation alarm, and most importantly the process of confirming staff are safely evacuated will take much longer. Clearly, more modern technology solutions are required to improve safety outcomes in such a situation.