Personnel Accountability System (PAS)

Click any Palm image for a close-up view
Click image for close-up view. The Personnel Accountability System (PAS) application is designed to assist the Incident Commander or other positions with crew accountability responsibilities in conducting and documenting PAS functions during major incidents.

The PAS application improves firefighter safety in several ways, including:

  • Providing a real-time list of currently onscene units and personnel direct from CAD/RMS.
  • Providing a dynamic check-off form to assist in conducting routine or emergency accountability surveys.
  • Writing the results of the survey to the CAD Incident History for reference or audit purposes.
  • Allowing the location or function of each unit to be viewed, entered or updated during the survey.
Click image for close-up view. From the initial application screen, select
  • Accountability/Location or
  • Location (or Function)
by tapping in the associated selection box.

Tap the "Show Major Incidents" button to display a list of open major incidents.

For the purpose of this application, a major incident is defined as four or more units dispatched.

The Help hyperlink provides a Palm-based guide containing application use information similar to this page.

The Demo hyperlink provides a convenient method of demonstrating or practicing with the application using sample data and simulated CAD responses.

Click image for close-up view. Selecting either of the options above will produce an open incident list similar to the one shown to the left.

The incident number, incident type, alarm level and incident location is shown for each event.

Select the desired event by tapping the abbreviated incident number hyperlink.

Click image for close-up view. A checklist of all onscene units and associated personnel for the selected event is returned, as shown to the left.
  • Enter a checkmark to indicate the crew was "Accounted"; an unchecked box will log in the Incident History as "Not Accounted".
  • The unit location or function can be viewed, entered or modified in the text box adjacent to the Unit ID.
  • Tap the "Submit Results" button to update CAD.
Click image for close-up view. A message confirming that the submitted information was properly received completes the process.