Assumed Present

A Survey of Office-Building Fire Wardens on Whether the Post-Drill Muster Roll Call Is an Independent Headcount or a Tick Against the Pre-Drill Sign-In Sheet

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 387 office-building fire wardens across 64 commercial office buildings on how they usually conduct the post-drill muster-point roll call. Ticking names off the building's pre-drill sign-in or swipe-card log without a fresh count is the single most common self-reported method (34.1%), and its use rises from 22.0% among wardens surveyed early in a building's insurer-mandated annual drill quota to 61.3% among those surveyed once most of the year's required drills had already been logged, a pattern that holds equally for dedicated and rotating wardens and for those recently accredited.

@misc{slop_ce2j7r,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Assumed Present: A Survey of Office-Building Fire Wardens on Whether the Post-Drill Muster Roll Call Is an Independent Headcount or a Tick Against the Pre-Drill Sign-In Sheet},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ce2j7r},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-surveying-office-building-fire-ce2j7r/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}