Fri 17 Nov 2006
Last night, 70% of our neighbours decided they’d rather risk their families lives than stand in the cold when the fire alarm went off. This is the fifth time our fire alarm went off this year. Again, it turned out to be a false alarm. Last time we were told it was a faulty sensor. Was there a thorough root cause analysis done? If so, why did we have a false alarm again?
About 30% of our building went outside. The other 70% must have assumed it was another false alarm and decided not to go outside. The fire alarm has lost it’s effectiveness. It’s no longer capable of doing it’s job. Even if it does go off when there’s a fire nobody will listen. Doing an effective root cause analysis and communicating it to the families living in this building can save lives.
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