Reported Incident Severity Level: MINOR
Yesterday, we had the first fire drill since our department was moved into the current building. I have been the unit fire warden for the department for years. So I had been familiar with the procedures of fire evacuation processes.
But, as it turned out, it was with the previous building, but not with the current one.
Of course, I went though the emergency information kit on the day we moved. However, the familiarity with the same procedures in old situations somehow prevented me from fully understanding those in the new circumstances.
Fortunately, I could pick up what I had missed out through physically moving about and identifying every bits and pieces of the procedures in the first drill. We are now better prepared, I hope. I thought such an on-site practice is vital to shake off the false assumption that everything would be the same as the situations we had been accustomed to but actually already changed in some ways.
Actual Incident Severity Level: SERIOUS
Root Cause: inappropriate application of old experience to new circumstances
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