10. Accepting Change to Link the “3-E’s” of Fire Prevention
Jill Cotton, Marketing and Customer Service Director for the web-based inspections report management systems company, InspectionReportsOnline.net (IROL) based in Aurora, IL, wrote this guest blog.
“One such example is the web-based inspection report management system movement. Using a web-based, or “cloud” platform, these systems are opening up solutions for service providers and local government. How are these systems connecting the “3 E’s”? Let’s take a quick look:
- Education: Linking the entities involved in the fire/life safety connection, specifically inspections. A quality system provides opportunities to communicate prevention and awareness campaigns, i.e., webinars, videos, e-Blasts, etc.
- Engineering: Providing a system, or tool, that can be used for reviewing of fire systems, record retention and management, and in-house inspections.
- Enforcement: Offering real-time knowledge of compliance by answering two key questions: “Does this system work and how do (we) know?”