Mar 02, 2019

Complying with Hotel Panic Button Ordinances or Union Contracts

Tags: 911,  guard llama,  occupational safety

Recently, local safety ordinances including Section 4-6-180 of the Chicago Municipal Code, Seattle Initiative 124, and New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO contract section 70 mandated panic buttons for hotel workers. Panic buttons are rapidly spreading as a way to protect hotel employees who work alone and...

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Mar 02, 2019

911 Fails to Find Child Trapped in Car

Tags: 911

Recently, a 16 year-old teen died in his family’s mini-van despite repeatedly calling 911. Police couldn’t find him because 911 only knew which cell tower was used and he wasn’t visible through the car windows. The teen used Siri to voice activate two calls to 911 over a period of three hours. In both calls he begs the...

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Mar 02, 2019

FCC Acknowledges 911 Call Routing is Broken

Tags: 911

The FCC recently released a Notice Of Inquiry into 911 routing problems because 911’s outdated technology often sends 911 calls to the wrong dispatch center. When that happens, the incorrect dispatch center has to talk to the caller, determine where the call belongs and then transfer that caller to the correct 911 disp...

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Mar 02, 2019

Worship Safely

Tags: 911,  guard llama,  safety

Some people attending churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship wonder about their safety – fortunately – the reasons for 98.5% of 911 calls from places of worship are rather boring! We used 911 call statistics provided by NEMIS.org to understand the common reasons for 911 calls. The top reason was breat...

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