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Good afternoon. It's week 5 of our journey to create a culture of safety and awareness to reduce elopement risks.
If you've been following along, your community is safer today than it was a month ago. If you continue, it will be safer tomorrow than it is today. Nice work.
If you missed week 1, check it out here.
If you missed week 2, review it here.
If you missed week 3, here it is.
Check out week 4, here.
Elevate your Community Safety
Week 5
Now that you've begun to shift the culture, accountability, and sense of urgency within your community it's time to circle back and ensure your physical plant is set up for success and security.
The funnel approach
Your community or facility should implement the funnel approach to control traffic and access.
The funnel approach is when you drive all community foot traffic to a specific and sole point of entrance and exit- your main entrance.
The funnel approach, in my opinion, is the only way to substantially reduce the risk of elopements.
If you have family members leaving through stairwells or back exits because it's closer to the visitor parking lot, you're increasing your risk.
If employees are entering and exiting through back doors because it's closer to the time clock, you're increasing your risk.
So, your task for this week is to ask yourself and your team:
Are we funnelling residents, visitors, employees, and vendors to one single entrance?
If the answer isn't an astounding "Yes," then you have work to do.
Here are some follow-up questions:
What challenges do we face in adopting the funnel approach?
What operational and process changes need to take place to accomplish the funnel approach?
What physical changes need to take place to accomplish the funnel approach?
What are the monetary investments needed to accomplish the funnel approach?
Some physical changes you may need to consider include door maglocks that are tied to your fire system, audible door alarms tied into your call bell system, changing door codes, and limiting sharing codes with visitors and vendors.
Work through your answers, and with them, create a plan to fully implement the funnel approach. Pull in your corporate partners to discuss the monetary investments required, if appropriate.
Assign owners to each step of your plan and milestone dates for each.
Include this plan as part of your overall QAPI plan and get to work.
That's it for this week.
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