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Pre-fire plans (PFP)

GLASS applications are built to fit specific customer needs. Key systems and processes within any facility must be understood, analyzed, refined, and controlled to maintain safety. With the introduction of GLASS, efficiency can be gained in maintaining facility programs.Visualization of fire protection features and interactive Incident Command allow real-time tracking of an incident and report generation necessary for post-incident critique. GLASS can also allow the user to:

• Recreate and maintain existing PFP or create them new inside GLASS.

• Provide training using the interactive features versus text book or presentation format.

• Track an event as it occurs to provide an accurate strategy for accident mitigation.

• Share up-to-date information with first responders from offsite organizations.

This GLASS application is customizable for any industry or facility that requires pre-fire plans and can be used for industry, commercial nuclear, or at the municipality level.

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PFP uses

Maintenance and Update: PFP updates are supported by the configuration control module. Graphical logic is prepared, reviewed and approved prior to implementation into a facility’s pre-fire plan program.

Training: With optional features such as the Interactive Incident Command interface, PFP can be used to train on fire attack strategies in a classroom setting. With the combination of Incident Command and Event Logging, GLASS supports development and execution of emergency drills, with event logs saved for post-drill critique.

Incident Response: Visualization of fire protection features, and interactive incident command interfaces/checklists make pre-planned fire attack strategies easily accessible. Retained event logs can be used for post-incident critique.

PFP Advantages

Fully Customizable Graphics: A standard set of symbols is available, but all can be designed to customer specifications.

Incident Command: Integrated logic supports incident command decisions even for scenarios not previously considered.

Quick and Intuitive Access to Information: PFP information is accessed through a graphical hyperlink interface. Touch screen technology is supported so that GLASS can be deployed on a portable PC/tablet or a large incident command center display.

Configuration Control: All changes are regulated by the configuration control module, which assures only authorized users make changes, and all changes are automatically logged.

Portability: Although GLASS can be installed in a network environment, it does not rely on outside data connections, so it can also be deployed on portable devices with local data storage.

Pre-fire plan drawings recreated in GLASS depict facility specific symbols or may incorporate industry standard symbols. Simple point-n-click or check-box tracking tools facilitate training and understanding for all facility personnel.

PFP uses

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Standard Features

Graphical Representation: Graphical symbols and layouts can be customized to meet user preferences.

Drill-down Menu Structure: Pre-fire plan information is provided in layers from overview status screens to individual rooms and checklists. Navigation between the layers is performed through interactive hyperlinks and buttons.

Pre-planned Attack Paths: Identification and activation of primary and secondary fire attack paths are provided based upon actual conditions.

Configuration Control Module: User access privileges are controlled, along with formal revision control (prepare/review/approve) of controlled data.

Identification of Staging Locations: Recommended staging locations of personnel and equipment are highlighted graphically based on live scenario inputs.

Print Ready: Pre-fire plans are designed to be printed in a document-ready format including revision history.

Optional Features

All optional features are custom built to match customer needs.

Interactive Pre-Fire Plan Checklists: Checklists interact with live scenario data to provide recommended actions such as ventilation options, electrical isolation, and hazard protection.

Interactive Incident Command Interface: Interface allows for placement and tracking of assets during a drill, training or actual incident. Logging of event is possible to support post-drill or incident critique. Fire detection and suppression system status can be included on the interactive plans to communicate with the incident response team.

Combustible and Chemical Inventory Tracking Modules: Monitor inventory levels and loading limits to ensure safety features are adequate.

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS): The MSDS are linked directly to locations within the pre-fire plans for easy access.

Chemical Dispersion Analysis: An interactive gaseous dispersion model is available to assist with protective action decision making.

Customizable PFP

Adding Incident Command to PFP provides the incident commander with a set of tools to perform real-time incident tracking of procedures, events, and scenarios as they occur. An incident commander can track the progress of an event by placing icons onto the drawing. From the Incident Command toolbar, the IC can direct fire brigade teams into position, stage safety equipment, and identify locations for additional help such as another fire brigade team or a medical staff unit. The incident is tracked using time-stamped log entries to indicate completed steps, when help arrives, and to aid in documenting the incident for a post-incident critique.

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Nuclear facilities follow applicable regulations and guidelines related to fire protection and emergency planning. GLASS provides a controlled location for maintaining facility data to assist ongoing program maintenance and updates.

A base PFP application includes static pre-fire plan drawings. Once PFP is built inside GLASS, additional interactive features can be added to the base application which is customizable to the facility’s needs. Below are some additional features that have been created to help nuclear facilities understand complex logic relationships.

PFP - Nuclear facility

Combustible/ Hot Work Control Program: This module tracks combustibles based on physical characteristics of an area which can limit the amounts of transient combustibles, whether the fire area is required by the plant Technical Specifications to be manned continuously, the configuration of the systems of concern which apply to their capability to limit fire and fire suppressant damage, and the safety significance of the systems of concern.

Chemical Inventory: An effective tool of assisting fire mitigation is to understand what chemical risks exist in an area so the fire brigade can respond to the fire more effectively. PFP can display information from chemical storage cabinets including assumed volumes and room limits. A hyperlink to important MSDS information provides an incident commander with key information that can be relayed to the fire brigade members regarding the risks.

Fire System Impairments: Pre-fire plan interactive technology can be used to track equipment out of service and safety

system availability or unavailability. Graphical logic updates instantly to reflect any new scenario information that is applied. When a primary detection system is out of service for test and maintenance, detectors can be graphically shown as ‘deactivated’. When a primary access pathway is challenged due to an obstruction, the pathway logic will update and provide an alternate recommended room access point.

Surveillance Modules: A surveillance module provides a site with a mechanism for tracking capabilities in the field using a portable device. Facilities with hundreds of inspections all due on a monthly surveillance can encounter challenges when 25% of the inspections are due each week across multiple buildings, elevations, rooms. This application aids in navigation to the surveillance location, documentation of the inspection, and then can provide the User with the next applicable surveillance in the area.

Additional Features

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PFP - Municipal or industrial facility

Additional Support Personnel and Equipment: PFP can be used to graphically depict the staging locations for additional support personnel and equipment. The customized symbols provide the facility with familiar symbology that is easily understood.

Municipal Departments encounter diverse variables when responding to a fire. Considerations include:

• Understanding best possible (and alternate) navigational routes.

• Understanding emergency response personnel that are needed to assist.

• Understanding of building layouts. • Understanding of water supply access points, building

hookups, and cut-offs.• Understanding of fire attack strategies.

Unfamiliar Buildings:

PFP Customization can document building layouts in relation to specific hookups and cut-offs to aid in better communications such as where to park a fire engine while at the scene. The application can store pictures of buildings to assist external and internal first responders as they respond to an emergency.

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Training

Once built, PFP Users have a uniquely designed tool to aid in navigation throughout the city, seeing actual street-view type photos of specific buildings, helping to understand where buildings are in relation to water mains and hydrants. Proper training of personnel may result in refinements to how the application is designed; GLASS application changes may be necessary to refine gaps identified during a training drill. Changes follow strict configuration control requirements necessary to support a facility’s data management system.

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