Without question, the most pressing challenge facing fire/rescue service leaders today is to achieve accurate and complete personnel accountability. As you know, every fire/rescue service textbook, technical manual, or leadership curriculum teaches the fire officer that the safety of their personnel is their number one concern. Accurately accounting for the personnel operating on the emergency scene, at all times, is a fundamental ingredient of emergency incident safety.

    Fire/rescue service providers perform one of the most hazardous occupations in existence. These people routinely work alone in some of the most hazardous environments known to man. Certainly, every fire/rescue worker would like to enjoy the security of knowing that their presence and operational status on the scene was constantly being monitored.

    With this in mind, Grace Industries, Inc. developed the GEM System^™. This system has the unique ability to completely identify all personnel as they arrive on the scene. This provides the incident commander with an accurate accounting of all personnel by name. It also provides the total number of personnel on the emergency scene at any given time.

    The incident commander or accountability officer can now monitor, track, and verify all personnel on any emergency scene with unmatched accuracy. The GEM System^™ is capable of storing incident histories, through PC interface (special order item), and tracking all personnel in any department, regardless of size. This system configuration provides the ability to print a hard copy of the incident history at any time.

    Imagine a system that provides the Accountability Sector Officer with an accurate census of the incident, identifies those personnel who have not activated their PASS devices, displays the names of personnel who go "out of range", and issue an audible and visual alarm when a distress signal is received.

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