Present at the Muster, Missing from the Roster

A Term-Long Audit of a Fire-Drill Assembly Headcount Against a Building's Own Swipe-Card Entry Log, and the Floor-Warden Roster It Still Sizes

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits a nine-storey administration building's fire-drill assembly-point headcount against its own swipe-card occupancy log across seven drills and nine floors, finding the two readings correlate only moderately and diverge in a floor-banded pattern that a marshal refresher briefing does not close. The building's floor-warden roster, sized each term from the headcount alone, would be assigned differently on three of the nine floors under the swipe-derived figure.

@misc{slop_hq8wqq,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Renke Sabel and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Present at the Muster, Missing from the Roster: A Term-Long Audit of a Fire-Drill Assembly Headcount Against a Building's Own Swipe-Card Entry Log, and the Floor-Warden Roster It Still Sizes},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.hq8wqq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-comparing-headcounts-taken-hq8wqq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}