A Web-Service Application for Ubiquitous Response to Emergency Situations in Hazardous Environments

We present a novel visitor management application to manage visitors in hazardous areas of process plants. Visitor safety, including subcontractors, is increasingly the responsibility of plant management. The ubiquity and near real time operation of a Web services application offers plant management novel assurances of best practice. The VMA offers the ability to connect sub-contractor primary management with data that identifies the actions and schedules of their staff on plant premises. Also, new services are possible in the event of an emergency situation when emergency management agencies can be given lists of personnel and their expected areas within the plant